HERITAGE AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: HOW PROTECTING THE PAST CAN SAVE THE FUTURE   You are warmly invited to a talk by Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage.  She will outline the high-profile campaign to stop the demolition of Marks and Spencer’s landmark building on Oxford Street. This early twentieth century department store is at the centre of a raging debate over the future of our high streets and the climate crisis. Henrietta’s talk will chart the story so far – the campaign, the public inquiry and the implications for the future of high streets everywhere.   The Heritage Lecture is an annual event, organised jointly by the Canterbury Society and the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent.   From 6.00 to 7.30 pm on Friday 6 October in the Templeman Library Lecture Theatre, University of Kent

POVERTY, POLICY AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD   You are warmly invited to this year’s Annual Civic Lecture, hosted jointly by the University of Kent and the Canterbury Society - on ‘Poverty, Policy and the Right to Food’.   The report, which was published earlier this year by the Canterbury Society, drew attention to the serious levels of poverty being experienced by large numbers of people in and around Canterbury. As a result, there has been a significant and deeply troubling increase in destitution and the use of food banks in the city.  At the same time an important national discussion is taking place concerning food insecurity, its impacts on education, health and wellbeing and on inequality across society.   The Food Foundation is at heart of these discussions, challenging us to consider food not as a commodity, but as something integral to dignity, equality and community.   From 6.00 TO 7.30 pm on Thursday 19 October, in the Templeman Lecture Theatre, University of Kent