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SPRING DAYS out for All the Family Explore Kent’S Award-Winning Gardens Spring 2016 FREE Ben Towers Teenage entrepreneur tastes fame SPRING DAYS OUT for all the family Explore Kent’s award-winning gardens Theatre • Homes & Gardens • Walks • Good Food Contents Leisure & Tourism 20-21 Gardens - Visit the counties top gardens 26-31 Good Food - Fine food from around the county 32-33 Walks - Explore Hamstreet woods 40-41 Charity Profile - Supporting Kent based charities Interview 7-9 Personality Profile - Ben Towers teenage entrepreneur tastes fame Lifestyle Editor's Choice 34-35 Mind, body & soul 36-39 Senior living 11-18 A selection of hand-picked events and great days out 42-53 Property, Homes & gardens around the county through the spring months 60-61 Motoring 62 Competitions Chairman: Claire Procter Covering the Mid Kent towns Editor: Stephen Eighteen Mid Kent Living is published every three months with a free circulation in Maidstone, Publishing Manager: Jo-Anne Brown Medway, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Malling, Ashford and Sittingbourne. It is Sales Manager: Bill Brett available at selected pick-up points throughout the area including major supermarkets. Subscription copies are posted (£8 annually). Advertising Sales: Tel 01622 630330 The team Mid Kent Living is published by Mail Publications Ltd (which also publishes the Downs Mail newspaper), Forge House, Bearsted Green Business Park, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4DT. Tel: 01622 630330 Fax 01622 631131 email [email protected] www.downsmail.co.uk Images: Vintage Fire engine courtesy of Chatham Dockyards; Sissinghurst Castle ©National Trust Images/Amhel de Serra Front cover image: Hole Park Gardens Mid Kent Living 3 e: [email protected] Willington Homes t: 07971720242 Willington Homes – specialists in subdivide partnerships Do you have a large garden that may lend itself to subdivide? Maybe you are thinking of selling up and would love to maximise your return? Maybe you’d like to stay in your home but reduce the size of your garden and create a nest egg for you and your family? We at Willington Homes understand this is a big decision and have undertaken partnerships with local people, like you, to help them minimise the risk and maximise their return. How does it work? Step 1 – We evaluate the potential of subdividing your garden Step 2 – We provide some build options for your consideration Step 3 – You seek independent advice on the value of the proposed build options Step 4 – We agree a land purchase price, based on achieving planning permission Step 5 – If we beat the upper valuation at sale we share the benefits To find out more, please call us on 07971720242 or email us at [email protected] 4 Mid Kent Living Season to be cheerful Spring is nature’s coming-of-age time, so there was no one better to feature in this edition than a teenager from Gillingham who is approaching adulthood in remarkable fashion. At 17, Ben Towers is a local phenomenon. At 11 he founded his own company and now, despite being too young to vote in June’s EU referendum, is a multi-award winning entrepreneur with his own web design agency employing 15 people and serving more than 700 customers. Even better, Rainham Mark Grammar School graduate Ben is operating and employing locally, with Towers Design headquartered in Maidstone’s new Business Terrace and the youngster hoping to fly the nest and move to the county town. The feel-good interview on pages seven to nine sets the scene for our celebration of a season during which warmth, light and colour increase by the day. Whether it is getting out in the garden or booking a barmy night out, we have plenty of suggestions to get you shaking off those dark days of winter. See our double-page feature on gardens to visit in Kent on pages 20-21 and our theatre previews on page 24 to get you in the mood. Our Editor’s Choice on pages 11-18 offers plenty of ideas to keep the children entertained during the Easter holidays at events across the county. If you are planning to get stuck into a project at home, don’t feel left out; bag yourself a treat from the county – without even leaving your home – with our feature on the rising popularity of online shopping in Kent on page 28-29 So, if the cold has been your excuse, let the new season be your reason to spring back into life. Editor Mid Kent Living 5 Making Maidstone the place to start a business with a new generation of workspace and a buzzing entrepreneurial community. The Business Terrace was only opened by Maidstone Borough Council six months ago but already has 23 entrepreneurs working from its 11 offices and co-working desks which are creating a real buzz and dynamic working environment. With unlimited fast internet (providing 100mb up and down speeds) included in highly flexible rental and desk tariffs, the facility is providing an inspiring and highly supportive environment for Maidstone’s entrepreneurs, home-based businesses and remote workers. At the heart of Maidstone The Business Terrace is in the centre of town opposite King Street surface level car park; next to the Bus Station (with Photograph courtesy of John Hall Photography Park & Ride) and The Mall Business Secretary Sajid Javid met with entrepreneurs at the Shopping Centre; a few steps Business Terrace in Maidstone on 29 February in a meeting from the town's main taxi rank; arranged by the county’s branch of the Federation of Small five minutes’ walk to Maidstone Businesses. He heard how The Terrace is “much valued by those east Railway Station and ten who use it”. Mr Javid (standing right) chats with Liam Behn minutes to Maidstone West with from The Kent Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs who High Speed links to St. Pancras. specialise in helping people aged up to 30 years old. With Mr Even if you have a good home Javid are (left) entrepreneur Ben Towers and (centre), Matthew office set-up, isolation can be a Scott, Conservative candidate for Kent Police and Crime challenge. A little time spent Commissioner). each week working around others is not only inspiring and energising; it can also facilitate informal business collaboration and networking. Exchanging ideas, contracts and services are all part of the culture at The Business Terrace. “The office in Maidstone is great. It’s right at the centre of things and close to shops, restaurants – and coffee shops! Serial teenage entrepreneur and latest “Terrace Tenant” Ben Towers: See Page 7 Break out and meeting spaces The Business Terrace has various break out areas including an outside decked terrace and inside glazed Link Bridge for relaxed chats and informal meetings or to work while enjoying a great cup of coffee. There is also a private meeting room for up to four; two less formal meeting spaces for up to eight and a 40-seat seminar room with cabled lectern for up to two laptops: HDMI / VGA and MAC compatible; Large screen; speakers and ceiling-mounted 3D data projector. Flexible, affordable and ready to move into The Business Terrace has eleven lockable office units -fully furnished, serviced and ready to move into – with 'easy-in, easy-out' terms and no long term contracts. - The facility has onsite advisers five days a week: no appointment needed. Or just pop in for a chat with like-minded people over a cup of coffee. We also have a direct link to the Government's Start Up Loans Company. Drop in between 9am and 4.30pm (other times by arrangement) Call us on 01622 239 300 or Email [email protected] www.businessinmaidstone.co.uk Personality profile Ben Towers above the rest MOST 11-year old boys are likely to be found playing on the It’s hard to believe that this X-Box, kicking a ball about with their mates or busy personable young chap, who has more than 63,000 followers on Twitter, was messaging their friends on Facebook or Instagram. By the sitting his GCSEs less than a year ago. time they reach 17, you can probably add ‘dating’ to the list. Ben seems surprised that he notched up a string of 15 or so A and B grades – Not so Ben Towers from Gillingham who, at 11, founded his although when you realise how many first company and now, still six months shy of 18, is a multi- balls he was juggling, you start to see award winning entrepreneur – even though he’s not yet old why. “I’d do an exam in the morning, jump enough to vote and has only just started learning to drive, on a train to the Midlands to play with writes Jane Shotliff. Soccer 6, head back to do another exam from 9am – 10.30am the next day then go to a business show at ExCel in the afternoon. While his school chums were busy In between being a business mogul “When I got my results, I thought sparring in the street, the young Ben, and motivational speaker, Ben still finds ‘Wow – how did that happen?’” recognising the advent of the digital the time to play for Chatham Table age, was setting up Towers Design, a Tennis Club, of which his dad Trevor is Staff at Rainham Mark Grammar digital media and web design agency. chairman, and to play football for the School could see Ben was destined for Today, it keeps 15 people busy and has celebrity team Soccer 6. great things and had him earmarked more than 700 customers. for sixth-form and a place at university. Ben had other ideas. From his offices in the Maidstone The careers teacher Business Terrace, Ben is also the brains “There was no way I could do four behind the social media management was very patient – or even three - A-levels and keep my company Social Marley – named business going at the same time.
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