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Representatives of Medway community organisations launch plans for VE Day in Medway.

Uplifting VE Day celebrations planned around Medway

Published: Thursday, 17th April 2025

Medway will join the nation in marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day, with special events including a parade, street parties, community poetry collaboration, and spectacular night-sky light display.

  • Applications for free road closures for VE Day celebrations announced

    Published: Thursday, 6th March 2025

    Residents across Medway can apply to close their street or road for free to celebrate Victory in Europe Day.

  • Update: Ahead of final weekend of Rochester Christmas Market

    Published: Tuesday, 10th December 2024

    An exciting weekend lined up in Rochester. 

  • Update following the cancellation of Rochester Dickensian Christmas Festival

    Published: Monday, 9th December 2024

    Unfortunately Storm Darragh meant the cancellation of events across the country, including our beloved Rochester Dickensian Christmas Festival (7 & 8 Dec).  

  • A drone shot of the Rochester Christmas Market. You can se Christmas lights, stalls, Rochester Castle and people walking around.

    Get ready for another Magical Medway Christmas

    Published: Thursday, 14th November 2024

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and there is so much to see and do in Medway this Christmas.

  • Remembrance Day poppies

    Remembrance events in Medway

    Published: Tuesday, 5th November 2024

    Remembrance services will be held across Medway to remember fallen servicemen and women on Sunday 10, November and Monday, 11 November.

  • Strictly Come Dancing Judge Shirley Ballas, with Medway Park staff at the International Dance Festival 2024

    Strictly judge visits Medway for international dance competition

    Published: Friday, 4th October 2024

    Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas visited Medway as competitors came together for the prestigious International Dance Festival 2024.

  • Prestigious international dance competition waltzes back into Medway!

    Published: Monday, 16th September 2024

    As the glitz, glam and glitter of Strictly Come Dancing sweeps across the country once again, vibrant Medway is set to sparkle too as it hosts the International Dance Festival 2024.

  • Love Gillingham: Free family-fun day

    Published: Monday, 19th August 2024

    In celebration of a new initiative bringing together the communities of Gillingham, residents are invited to a family-fun day in the town centre.

  • Medway Culture Fest 24 - summer holiday programme

    Published: Tuesday, 9th July 2024

    Children and families invited to get creative and explore Medway’s history this summer.

  • Soldiers at Armed Forces Day

    Celebrate Armed Forces Day 2024 at the Historic Dockyard

    Published: Thursday, 30th May 2024

    Armed Forces Day 2024 is set to be one of the best yet, with the event making a much-anticipated return to the Historic Dockyard Chatham.

  • A Morris side dancing in historic Rochester

    Save the date for Rochester Sweeps

    Published: Wednesday, 17th April 2024

    Historic Rochester will once again host the ever-popular Sweeps Festival – an international celebration of folk music and dance.

  • Medway Culture Fest 24

    Published: Friday, 15th March 2024

    You are invited to be part of Medway’s celebration of creativity and community.

  • An arial shot of Rochester Castle and the Christmas Market. You can see the castle in the background and a fun fair with bright lights across the castle gardens.

    Get ready for Medway’s most magical Christmas yet

    Published: Tuesday, 3rd October 2023

    It is never too early to start thinking about the most wonderful time of the year and there is plenty to look forward to in Medway this Christmas.

  • Residents encouraged to celebrate culture and community at Chatham carnival

    Published: Monday, 3rd July 2023

    After its huge success last year, Chatham’s community town centre carnival is back this summer with activities across Chatham’s busy high street on Saturday, 8 July.

  • Residents invited to celebrate Armed Forces at Freedom Parade

    Published: Tuesday, 20th June 2023

    Residents are invited to line the streets and cheer on Armed Forces personnel as they march through Rochester this Sunday (25 June).

  • Medway’s Armed Forces Day celebrations

    Published: Monday, 19th June 2023

    Residents are invited to come together for a free, patriotic celebration for Armed Forces Day later this month.

  • Medway’s tastiest festival arrives

    Published: Wednesday, 3rd August 2022

    Update on 14 September: The Medway Food and Drink Festival has been postponed.

  • A young man in uniform on a sunny day for Armed Forces Day, people are walking to his right, he is looking directly at the camera standing still

    Residents invited to Medway’s Armed Forces Day celebration

    Published: Friday, 17th June 2022

    Hundreds of residents are expected to come together for a free, patriotic celebration for Armed Forces Day later this month.

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