insideKENT Magazine Issue 67 - October 2017 | Page 148

NEWS
ALLBITS
CELEBRATES
30th
ANNIVERSARY
Medway’s finest bathroom
showroom celebrates its
30th anniversary this October.
Situated in Strood, the business has
grown from a small corner shop
when it started in 1987 to a large and
impressive three-storey luxury
bathroom showroom and separate
trade counter. Allbits Bathroom
Showroom prides itself on offering
an unparalleled product range, which
enables them to fulfil the cost, design
and size requirements that its
customers present when buying their
new bathroom. To celebrate their
anniversary this month, Allbits are
offering discounts of up to 30 per
cent across their entire bathroom
range. Getting a quote or 3D
bathroom design is free and all new
quotes receive a luxury, handmade
soap. Furthermore, if you spend over
£1,000 you will also receive a bundle
of Christy’s Egyptian cotton towels.
KENT RESIDENT RAISES OVER £4,000
FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS
In celebration of the
birthday of Kent
resident Tash Lowther,
who lost her fight
against cystic fibrosis
on 26th December 2016
at the age of 23,
fundraiser Nicole
Hollier put together an
exceptional evening
complete with a
delicious three-course
dinner at Maidstone’s
MuMu, silent auction,
live music and raffle.
Two prizes were
donated by the team at
Results with Lucy, with
ongoing support from
Lucy Mecklenburgh,
Cecilia Harris and
Sophie Grace Holmes all from the Results with Lucy team.
Other prizes came from: Oia Collection & Anemi Villas, Oia,
Santorini, The OXO Tower, London, One Aldwych Hotel, London,
Sanctum Hotel Soho, So Very Cassie, The Milk House, Sissinghurst,
and the Chilston Park Hotel in Lenham, Kent.
You can still donate by buying The Little Cookbook, bracelets and
keyrings at www.heathmorgan.co.uk/cysticfibrosispersonal.html.
As part of the money raised – a total of £4,485.39 – Tash’s family
will be buying a memorial tree in Dunorlan Park in Tunbridge
Wells. The remaining money will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
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NEW REPORT REVEALS HIGH SPEED ONE’S
IMPACT ON KENT’S £3.6BN VISITOR ECONOMY
Kent’s high-
speed rail link
to London
helped to add
more than
£311 million to
the local visitor
economy, a
new report by
Visit Kent has
found.
HS1 Ltd, the
company that
owns and
operates High Speed 1 (HS1), has released the findings of the new wave
of consumer research by Visit Kent and Destination Research Ltd, which
shows the full extent of the rail line’s contribution to the last decade of
growth for the Kent visitor economy.
Since 2010, leisure journeys to Kent via HS1 have increased almost
ninefold from 100,000 to 890,000 in 2016, with almost a third of Kent
visitors citing HS1 as having influenced their decision to choose the
county. Almost half (47 per cent) of all rail visitors to Kent travelled via
the HS1 service.
For every leisure journey made in 2016, £81.65 was added to the local
economy – a total of £72.7 million last year. The total economic impact
of HS1 on the visitor economy since domestic high speed rail services
launched in 2007, has been £311 million.
Jonathan Neame, chairman of the county’s destination management
organisation Visit Kent, said: “We were pleased to produce this report
in partnership with HS1, and to be able to clearly show the direct value
of leisure journeys on the wider economy.”