About the Society

“WELCOME” from all of the Garden Society Committee.

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Our shows are a wonderful way to get to know our local villagers and neighbours in Lower Hardres and Nackington and the surrounding villages. We were very pleased to welcome several new members last year.

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We have a new show schedule for 2024, with classes to interest everyone, both adults and children including some Open Classes for non-members. We have some interesting new titles for Floral Art and Photography and some new Children’s Classes. Newcomers’ entries are particularly welcome, so please just have a go – the more entries there are, the better the show!

We would like to thank all those who take time to exhibit, make cakes and serve refreshments and those who support our shows by coming along. We are also very grateful to those that help make the Summer Show such a success by assisting with setting up and manning the stalls and activities, without these helpers we could not organise such a show which enables us to raise funds for charity. Last year our charity was Cobbes Meadow Riding for the Disabled and we were very pleased to be able to donate a further £500 to this very worthy cause.

This year sees some changes to our committee: Dot Taylor is stepping down after many years of invaluable service and we would like to thank her for all her work and the experience that she brought to the committee. We are very pleased to welcome Donna Potlog onto the committee who joins Tracey Steer as the ‘next generation’ of committee members.

Several of the current committee have served for some time and we would very much like to welcome additional new committee members with fresh ideas to keep our society invigorated and relevant for our community into the future.

If you would like to help with the shows or join our committee please contact a member of the committee, all offers of help will be gratefully received!

We particularly want to thank Pharon Independent Financial Advisers for their generous sponsorship and for the support of our local business advertisers. Such support is invaluable to our Society.