Annual Stakeholder Event, Monday 27th April 2026 Kent Community Rail Partnership invites you to join us at our Annual Stakeholder Event on Monday 27th April at Maidstone Town Hall, 12:30-4:00pm*. Our Stakeholder Event is a great opportunity to hear more about the impact of our events and activities over the last year, and to discover…

6th December 2025 Sheerness Highstreet Kent CRP at the Sheerness Christmas Event Early on Saturday 6th, we mustered near the Clock Tower on Sheerness High Street to get our stall ready for the festival celebrations that day. Chris Reed from The Big Fish Arts kindly lent us a gazebo for the day which was perfect,…

Valley Park Schol Choir at Maidstone East Station, Monday 8th December from 5:30pm Come and join the festive fun at Maidstone East station, Monday 8th December from 5:30pm. Live music and singing, mince pies and hot-chocolate. We’ll be there, come and say hello.

November 2025 EKC Sheppey College To mark Remembrance Day, EKC Sheppey College collaborated with the “Knit and Natter” Age UK group to create a poppy installation at the front of Sheerness Station, with over 200 specially made woollen poppies. Alongside, a poster about the project and the meaning behind the different colour poppies was designed…

Train Travel Training and Sustainable Tourism Guided Walk, 29 October 2025 Working in collaboration with Sarah Moon and the Kent Downs National Landscape ‘Putting Down Routes’ project, Kent CRP undertook train travel training and a guided walk on the North Downs Way for Ashford College adult learners for whom English is spoken as another language…

Sheerness Christmas Event, Sat 6th December Have a family Scenic Rail Winter day out at the Sheerness Christmas Event, Sat 6th December. Live music, craft market, food and drink, entertainment, face painting, reindeer and more. We’ll be there, come and say hello.

Grow 19 College SEN students Train Travel Training From Maidstone East station to Hollingbourne station 17 October 2025 Nine SEN students and their 4 tutors undertook a train travel training journey to Hollingbourne station’s Signal Box Café. All students were between the ages of 18 and 25.  At the café, some of the students practiced life…

Rehoming More Abandoned Bikes with Maidstone CAN and Making a Difference to Maidstone Following our recent success of moving on some abandoned bikes at Maidstone West for refurbishement and re-use, Sharon Gray of Southeast Communities Rail Partnership alerted us to another pile of abandoned bikes, this time at Tonbridge station.   In years gone by, these…

Celebrating Railway 200 with the Signal Box Cafe at Hollingbourne Station, Sunday 19th October.

Rehoming Abandoned Bikes with Maidstone CAN and Making a Difference to Maidstone Earlier this year, Taylor Edwards at Southeastern introduced us to a pile of abandoned bikes in storage at Maidstone West station. In years gone by, these were passed on to the YMCA at Tonbridge, to support a scheme to allow young people to…

Supporting the Muslim Hikers along the North Downs Way, Wye to Canterbury, Sat 16th August 2025 Kent CRP regularly works in collaboration with Kent Downs National Lanscape’s ‘Putting Down Routes’ project, to bring under-represented groups into the Kent Downs, grow sustainable tourism to the area, and extend the typical summer tourist season to all year…

South Eastern Railway Stakeholder Forum, 15th July 2025 We were delighted to accept an invitation to attend the South Eastern Railway Stakeholder Forum on Tuesday 15th July, to hear updates and announcements from Southeastern and Network Rail about their integrated working group.   Please find below a summary of our notes from the meeting. ….