{"id":5263,"date":"2025-09-11T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:30:08","slug":"royal-british-legion-industries-106th-tommy-tea-birthday-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/2025\/09\/11\/royal-british-legion-industries-106th-tommy-tea-birthday-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal British Legion Industries 106th Tommy Tea Birthday Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">SI Sevenoaks were invited by new member Kerry Locke to attend Tommy\u2019s Tea Party celebrating 106 years at the Royal British Legion Industries village in Aylesford, Kent on Wednesday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> September.\u00a0 The cakes were fantastic and Homepride supported the event with their star Fred posing for pictures!\u00a0 Margaret Nicholson and Pat Downing are shown in our picture.\u00a0 Our second picture shows Anne Bond, Sandie Higgs, Kathy Jordan, Margaret Nicholson and Pat Downing.\u00a0 Kerry Locke was busy on duty and Penny Robbins who had attended a Tommy Tea event the previous year and introduced Kerry to SI Sevenoaks club was working hard at the event too.\u00a0 We met some of the residents and joined in with some war time songs and were given bags of flour and Homepride tea towels.\u00a0 We each made nice donations to the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sandie Higgs SI Sevenoaks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/Margaret-and-Pat-with-the-Homepride-Man-at-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5265\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/Margaret-and-Pat-with-the-Homepride-Man-at-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/Margaret-and-Pat-with-the-Homepride-Man-at-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/Margaret-and-Pat-with-the-Homepride-Man-at-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/At-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5264\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/At-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/At-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2025\/09\/At-the-British-Legion-Event-03.09.25.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Sevenoaks were invited by new member Kerry Locke to attend Tommy\u2019s Tea Party celebrating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Royal British Legion Industries 106th Tommy Tea Birthday Event | News | Blog | Events | SI Sevenoaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Sevenoaks : Blog &amp; News : Royal British Legion Industries 106th Tommy Tea Birthday Event : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Sevenoaks . 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