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The Folkestone Harbour and Seafront Development Company is promoting regeneration schemes for the area. [4] The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust [5] was established in 1978, offering charitable support to a variety of charities and community organisations, mostly in the area around Folkestone and south east Kent.
Whistling houses, angry locals and one of the UK’s richest men: How Folkestone’s plan to be Shoreditch-on-Sea turned sour. ... Folkestone’s revival is the brainchild of Sir Roger De Haan ...
Sir Roger De Haan, whose father set up the Saga holiday firm, bought the harbour for £11m in 2004. ... Folkestone and Hythe District Council said it would not be issuing a statement regarding the ...
The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust provided £50 million to acquire and repair, refurbish and/or rebuild nearly 90 buildings in Folkestone that were previously in a state of serious disrepair or derelict. [4] Sir Roger sold the Saga Group for £1.35 billion in 2004, and acquired Folkestone Harbour for £11 million the same year.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
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Folkestone Artworks is maintained and cared for by Creative Folkestone on behalf of the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust. [3] Commissioned artists and their artworks often respond directly to the town of Folkestone itself and with the specific site in mind, reflecting both the town and its community whilst also reflecting broader themes.
The business was founded by Sidney De Haan in 1951 and was passed to his son Roger De Haan who took over in 1984 after his father's retirement. [5] Saga was acquired by staff (20%) backed by the private equity firm Charterhouse in October 2004. [6] Saga merged with The AA (owned by CVC and Permira) to form Acromas Holdings. [7]