Deal Maritime Folk Festival has over 40 events lined up between 15th and 18th September.

Do you run a local charity, sports club, arts group or other community activity? Do you want to raise your profile, ask for volunteers, new members, support for your events?

Deal starts the journey towards being a transition town, joining over 500 other towns in the UK.

Deal and Dover are Fairtrade towns. you can find a list of traders offering Fairtrade goods in the towns on the council websites.

CorDomus helps children from separated families to keep in touch with their non-resident parent. They need your help to provide extra facilities for these families, and more volunteers.

If you want to get involved in your docotors surgery in Dover, now there is a chance.

There's lots to do in Dover, Deal and Sandwich this summer organised by our many dedicated local event teams.

There is local concern about a controversial shale gas ‘fracking’ experiment in the district which could polute our local water supplies as few long terms tests have been carried out on this process to confirm its safety.

It’s time to think about redecorating you home so here are a few thoughts for consideration before jumping in with that paintbrush

There may not be a great Deal to distinguish one party from another but it's still worth voting. At least it gives us a right to challenge them if they do things they did not put in their manifestos.