Local Organisations

Church Landway Allotments / Street Allotments – All enquiries to be directed to Bearsted Parish Council

New members and visitors are very welcome!

Our programme of meetings runs from September to May (excluding December). Meetings are held in the Memorial Hall, Manor Rise, Bearsted, ME14 4DB, 7.30pm, on the last Friday of the month.

If you would like to join, please contact us via email. Membership is by yearly subscription. There is a small entrance fee for visitors.

All enquiries please email.  We look forward to meeting you!

Bearsted Woodland Trust(BWT) protects and maintains 26 acres of woodland and meadow, restoring and enhancing a natural habitat for animals and plants and providing a place of recreation for visitors.

A free Men’s social networking Group with free monthly meet ups.

The Society cares about Bearsted and Thurnham and their residents. It is vigilant in scrutinising proposals for change which might threaten the character of the two parishes, their gardens and other green open spaces, their Conservation Areas, the North Downs Area of outstanding Natural Beauty, and the area of special landscape value in its foreground.

Members are kept updated of important information via email and the website.

Rainbows – Age 4-7 years

Brownies – Age 7-10 years

Guides – Age 10 – 14 years

Bearsted CAN are a very sociable, active, inclusive and nonaligned group looking at both personal and local ways mitigate and adapt to the climate & ecological emergency.

We have many interesting and fun activities, looking to engage others in Bearsted and surrounds, to be involved. These include regular speaker events, a bimonthly local Repair Café, practical projects around Bearsted like the Bearsted Station Roadside Nature Reserve, our very successful Plastic Free Bearsted campaign – with a number of local Plastic Free Allies, a local People Planet Pint pub and chat meeting bimonthly (there is a free pint on offer!), litter picking drives, school/young people links and involvement in our local Bearsted Fayre.

The U3A movement is a unique and exciting organisation which provides, through individual U3As all around the country the opportunity for retired and semi-retired people to come together to socialise and learn together, not for qualifications, but for its own reward; the sheer joy of discovery!

We meet at 2:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at Detling Village Hall, Pilgrim’s Way, Detling, Kent, ME14 3EY.