BEST OF KENT ® 14 BEST OF KENT ®- September

SPECIAL FEATURE 34 Ready for the‘ ber

LONDON 116 REVIEW: Café Francois

FASHION + BEAUTY 124 Back to Business

HOME + GARDEN 129 inSPIRATION: Grounded in Style 138 inside Real Homes:

Orlestone Oak 142 inTERIORS: Little Luxe

146 How To … Make a

Faux Flower Bouquet 148 This Month in The Garden

SPECIAL FEATURE: Education in Kent 2026 Sponsored by Whitehead Monckton 154 Navigating Your School and College Options for 2027

156 Kent College: Life Beyond the Classroom 158 Marlborough House:

A Flexible Educational Offering 160 Music Scholarships at

Spring Grove School 161 Walthamstow Hall:

Where Girls Thrive 162 Creative Inspiration at Rochester Institute of Creative Arts!

163 Dover College: Where Children Belong, Thrive and Grow

165 Bickley Park Joins the Sevenoaks Family of Schools

166 A New Vision for St Edmund’ s School 169 Sixth Form Open Evening at The Malling School 170 Kings School: What Should Sixth Form Be For? 172 North Kent College: Local

Colleges, Limitless Futures 176 Sutton Valence School:

A Different Measure of Success 179 Claremont International

Football Academy 182 Maidstone Museum:

Are You Not Entertained? 184 BAE Systems: Building a

Career in Engineering 188 Back-to-School Essentials 190 REVIEW: Young Drivers

BUSINESS + TECH 194 Kent Legacy:

Generational Businesses 198 A Legacy of Skills at BAE

Systems 200 inDEPENDENT Businesses

FINANCE 202 Azets: Payroll Processes

THE inside STORY 209 Kent News