Kent Soul Ceremonies

08/12/2024

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03/12/2024

At Let’s Talk About Loss, our vision is that no young griever grieves alone. We are so proud to have 40 meet ups across the UK, in-person and online, that offer peer support to people dealing with grief. Maybe you’ve been to one of them! ☺️

In 2025, we have big plans to reach even more young grievers. We want to train more volunteers, open new meet up locations, put on more events and run more creative sessions - but we can't do it without you. A small Christmas gift today will help us raise the funds we need to support more young grievers. 🎄

We’ve started a Facebook fundraiser which will run for the whole of December, and we’d be so grateful if you could consider donating £10 (or however much you’re able to give) so we can start 2025 in the best way!

Just click on the fundraiser link in our profile to donate, it’s super quick and easy. Thank you so, so much. 💙

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03/12/2024

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Today is the start of The Good Grief Trust's National Grief Awareness Week.

The theme this year is 'Shine a Light'.
We support this campaign to 'Shine a light on people, places and projects' and build awareness of all the bereavement services across the UK whilst remembering all those that we have lost.

Celebrants play such an important role in supporting people during the most difficult times.

Together we are stronger 💛

02/10/2024

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Why Planning for End of Life is Essential: The Peace of Mind in Securing Your Final Resting Place at Holly Barrow Columbarium When it comes to major life events, most people don’t think twice about planning. Weddings, milestone birthdays, and significant anniversaries are moments we carefully orga...

02/10/2024

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04/09/2024

Definitely one of this years favourite pics (and Bride 🖤)

08/06/2024

Even the clouds provided us with some art…

15/05/2024

Definitely one of 2024’s cutest wedding venues and couples 🖤💍💒💫 so far! Whitstable Castle

15/05/2024

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Two fisherman knit their winter woolies, Ramsgate, Kent, England (1940s)

21/03/2024

12/01/2024

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Welcome...if you have recently discovered us....let us tell you a story and introduce you to this magical place called Dode.

Set in the rolling hills of the Kent Countryside Dode is a place to discover lots of history. Dode is more than an ancient building, for it is a far older place than perhaps we can imagine, it’s beginnings go back into the mist of time. If you walk into the meadow surrounding the building you will see that it is built on a substantial mound which is man-made. The hill which totally surrounds and shelters the building has been known from time immemorial as Holly Hill and it is approached by a narrow roadway which goes nowhere, its ancient name is Wrangling Lane. Here then are the clues to a site of deep antiquity, for Holly Hill is a corruption of Holy Hill and the name Wrangling Lane indicates that here on this mound may well be the site of a Moot or Meeting Place perhaps going back thousands of years.

Archaeological evidence confirms occupation of the site during the Roman period and on a still night when the moon is full it is not difficult to imagine pre-Christian rites in this secluded Valley where real harmony with nature still exists.

The Village of Dode was destroyed in 1349 as a result of the Black Death and shortly afterwards the building was abandoned, it was not to be used for regular worship again. If you have read the last few lines quickly, please re-read them, and think exactly what they mean. To help, visualize that the last Masses were said and that the Building had been silent and sleeping for almost 150 years before Columbus discovered America. Indeed it was to remain asleep until 1901 when it was purchased by a local antiquary who restored it at his own expense, but the little church was not yet ready to return to full wakefulness .

The antiquary, an old man by this time, died, two world wars were to be fought and man had walked on the moon before it finally rubbed the sleep from its eyes and began slowly, very slowly to re-enter a very different world to the one it remembered so long, long ago.

Today as you enter the Church you can imagine a Priest telling of the death of Thomas Becket over 800 years ago. To discover more of Dode’s 1000 year history visit our website - https://www.dodevillage.com/back-story/

This ancient place now preforms all of the functions of established churches such as weddings, baby welcoming, renewal of vows and final goodbyes for people of all colours, creeds and choices, in beautifully constructed humanistic and nature based ceremonies.