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27/10/2025

Canvey, we did a thing. After years of graft, The Gunny Community Garden & Hub is open — a 3-acre green space with therapeutic gardens, play areas and a hub for meet-ups. From wartime history to wildflowers… proper Essex resilience. 🌿

24/10/2025

Feel-Good Friday from Thurrock 💚
Massive shout-out to the Grays Athletic youth squad who ran a 5k fundraiser for Mind last weekend — showing what local teamwork really means 👏
Funds go straight to supporting mental health projects in Essex.
Tag a young person or coach who deserves a cheer below 🙌

23/10/2025

Throwback Thursday: Lakeside turns 35 this week! 🎉
From the smell of new doughnuts by the old fountain to Christmas shopping trips that lasted all day — 35 years of memories at one of Essex’s biggest landmarks.
Who remembers it opening back in ‘90? Or that first shop you ever ran to? 🛍

22/10/2025

Saturday sorted:
☕️ Canvey Coffee Morning (10–1, Canvey Spiritualist Church)
🎃 Southend Halloween Parade (6:30–7:45 pm, free on the seafront)
Morning brews → evening boos 👻

20/10/2025

17/10/2025

£3,687.50 in, safer kit out. 4th/6th Leigh-on-Sea Sea Scouts have landed funding to refresh buoyancy aids and kayaks so more Southend youngsters can train on the estuary.

16/10/2025

Throwback Thursday: Billericay Town’s Wembley years — FA Vase winners in 1976, 1977 and 1979. If you were there, drop a memory or a photo.

15/10/2025

One for the beer lovers, one for the thrill seekers. Southend + Rayleigh showing up this weekend.

13/10/2025

Southend, you lot don’t do things by halves. 86,000+ handmade poppies heading for the Pier this November — stitched by locals, kids and total strangers who just wanted to help. ❤️ If you’ve got nimble fingers (or just good chat and a kettle), volunteers are still jumping in. Community > everything.

10/10/2025

Big up William Edwards School 👏 Flying the Thurrock flag with a British Council award for international learning. Students, staff, parents — take a bow. 🙌

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09/10/2025

The Kursaal: over 100 years of Southend fun, still our landmark. 💙

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08/10/2025

Weekend sorted ✅ Southend is stacked with tributes — Ultimate Coldplay at Chinnerys and Björn Again (ABBA) at the Cliffs. Swipe for the details, tag your gig crew, and keep it local.
Running something in Basildon / Canvey / Benfleet / Thurrock / Rayleigh too? Drop it below and we’ll add to Stories. (Times can change—check the venue before you head out.)