How you can help

1. Donation

We are putting together a team to defend us.

Online donations
Business name: Five Parishes Group Fighting Fund
Sort code: 60-19-25
Account Number: 28536576

If you require a receipt of your donation, please use your surname as the payment reference and advise our clerk by e-mail of your payment at info@fiveparishes.org.uk

Anonymous donations
We understand that some donors may wish to remain private.  The POG bank account has only 2 signatories assigned to it who ensure all financial transactions are kept confidential and known only to them.  You can use ‘Anon’ as your payment reference to ensure privacy. 
  
Alternatively, you may prefer to use the GoFundMe account set up by POG as part of its nationwide publicity:     
https://gofund.me/de0b9a84

(Please note that GoFundMe automatically deduct a fee per transaction of 2.9%, making payments using the other methods mean keep 100% of the donation)

Donations by cheque
Please make cheques payable to: Five Parishes Group Fighting Fund
Post or deliver to: The POG Clerk, Waterside, Highsted Valley, Nr Sittingbourne ME9 0AD  

If you require a receipt for your donation, please ensure you provide your name, a day time telephone number or email address. 

Whilst the scheme is within the Faversham and Mid-Kent constituency, we appreciate that there are a lot of concerned residents in Sittingbourne.  For anyone living directly in any of the villages directly impacted, your MP is Helen Whately (Conservative) if you are in Sittingbourne or areas to the west and north then you MP is Kevin McKenna (Labour). The map below should help if you are not sure

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4. Volunteer
If you have specialist skills you could offer us (preferably at a nil or reduced rate) get in touch with.

If you would like to make a donation, join our mailing list for the latest news or feel that you can offer any other kind of support then please complete the following form and send it in the post to the address at the bottom of the form.

Volunteer and Donation Form

For anything else, please contact the 5POG clerk on 01795 470753 or e-mail: info@fiveparishes.org.uk

What is certain, this is a test case.  Sittingbourne and its surrounding area become a focus of national attention for local councils, planners and developers in Spring 2025, at a public inquiry.  Similarly, the applicants calculative approach to the planning process will also be under scrutiny. 

A decision that could set a precedent that upholds or dismisses local planning regulation.