BEST OF KENT ® 14 BEST OF KENT ®- October

SPECIAL FEATURE 17 Black History Month 2025: Visionary Voices

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT 21 in The Diary 30 PREVIEW: Detling Antiques &

Vintage Fair 32 Kent Artist Profile: Jade Taylor

SPECIAL FEATURE- Oh Yes It Is! Panto Season 36 Jack & The Beanstalk at

The EM Forster Theatre 37 Jack & The Beanstalk at

The Sinden! 38 Sleeping Beauty at

The Rylance Theatre 40 Chatham Panto- Get Ready For A Dream of a Pantomime!

42 Oh Yes They Did! Meet The

Malthouse Panto Team 44 Aladdin at Orchard West 46 Greenwich Theatre’ s Award-

Winning Panto Returns!

DAYS OUT SPECIAL FEATURE- SEASONAL SNEAK PEEKS 50 Top 10 Kentish Christmas

Book-Nows 53 Christmas at the Gulbenkian 54 Winter Magic at Ruxley Manor

DAYS OUT 58 The Garden of Eerie 63 Junior iK: Biddenden Tractor Fest 64 Spooktacular Kent

KENT STAYCATION 68 Hygge Hideaways 75 The insideGUIDE to Sittingbourne 80 inFLUENCED By … Lucy Alexander

116 in the KITCHEN WITH Mihirdev Rai, Buenos Aires Nights Steakhouse, Ashford

120 REVIEW: Buenos Aires Nights, Canterbury 123 inside STORY: Food & Drink News 124 On the Grapevine

LONDON 126 REVIEW: Barbarella, Canary Wharf

TRAVEL 128 REVIEW: A Cretan Summer with Giannoulis Hotels

HEALTH + WELLNESS 134 Spotlight: Women’ s Health

FASHION + BEAUTY 140 Sweet Like Chocolate

HOME + GARDEN 144 inSPIRATION: Heritage Revival 154 inside Real Homes: No. 18 Whitstable by Constance Interiors 158 inTERIORS: Warming Wood 160 Neatsmith Tunbridge Wells 164 How To … Prep Your Home

For Winter 166 This Month in The Garden

BUSINESS + TECH SPECIAL FEATURE: Team Building in Kent 172 Team Building: The Secret

Ingredient To Success 174 inDEPENDENT Businesses 177 Team Wellbeing Experiences at

VWell, Hythe 178 Team Days at The Escapement 180 REVIEW: Team Building at Betteshanger Park

FINANCE 186 Azets: Five Ways Businesses Can Improve Financial Performance

LAW 188 Gullands Solicitors: What is

Alternative Dispute Resolution?

THE inside STORY 190 Kent News