A pleasure to thank the Woking Asian Business Forum for another beauty of a Christmas tree in Jubilee Square.The Mayor of Woking and representatives from the Borough Council were there to share the moment.
WABF with their wonderful generosity presented The High sheriff Youth Awards with a very generous cheque which I am most grateful for as the need for funds grows,thank you
Tucked in a quiet corner of Elstead is an amazing place of nurture.Complete with the goats,sheep,hens and ducks,Bev provides a new and amazing opportunity for children from years 3-6 to have a different experience in the outdoors , with the benefit of farm animals and careful nurturing.A great example of nurture through nature
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The Meath orienteering team from Godalming, set out for a walk at Hampton,enjoying forest ,fields and fungi,donkeys and deer.Congratulations to The Meath team for a wondeful morning,it was such a pleasure.
Congratulations to Teen Tech for a fantastic day with 300 yr 8 students from across Surrey and the South East, exploring and discovering science and technology and engineering. The buzz and excitement of seeing and believing what is going on, thanks to many national ,local and global companies generously having a presence at ACS Cobham International School was evident. Another year and another slick and very worthwhile event. Thank you to SATRO for taking on the organisation of this event with TeenTech.
What a great afternoon at Esher Rugby Club, when to a packed hall of groups and charities who benefit from, or work with Walton Charities we looked at the impact of their work.
A big thank you to Professor Danny Dorling the keynote speaker. A most thought provoking start to the afternoon with some shattering statistical maps on inequality countrywide and more alarmingly within our own County.Watch this space more to come later in the month on UK league of Borough inequality.
Thank you Walton Charities
It was a great opportunity, as always, at the AGM to meet many Surrey Youth charities as well as hearing from Dawn Plummer of Collaborate on the changing paradigms of delivery .Fascinating -“outcomes are not delivered by organization” but by 3 things being human,learning and adapting and nurturing.Checkout Collaborate CIC. Thi s year saw the retirement of John Walshe who has had a long and very active association with SYF.
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Thank you to Councillor Richard Billington and Canon Robert Cotton, and all those who helped in making the Remembrance Service in Guildford a special time of remembrance and reflection.
Colonel Patrick Crowley DL shared with the congregation more on our local regiment, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment, in the fifth of his centenary talks.Fascinating ,a real privilege.
I was pleased to have made the time to admire the recently sculptured new memorial in the Castle grounds.
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What a treat eight antique experts descend on the Reservists center on Friday evening to entertain us with an insight into our treasures from the attic.
With grateful thanks to The Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars who were able to organise the experts to attend,we started the evening with John Benjamin sharing with us his knowledge on jewelry ,its fashion and value. A delicious curry dinner as you would expect for an The Army Benevolent Fund-The Soldiers Charity-Fundraising evening.Congratulations to the local ABF for such a great evening g.
14 years on and 160,000 students through Dorking Halls, and the Surrey Fire and Rescue Services are welcoming a further 12,000 students this year to witness the hard hitting presentation on safe drive stay alive.
Enormous thanks are owed to the brave performers who volunteer their time to give graphic and unforgettable details of traffic accidents and fatalities they have witnessed.
The messages are clear; the mobile phone ,drinking,drugs,tired and fast and reckless driving
can be fatal.The performance is grueling,the message clear, and the effect is measurable.
Thank you to everyone involved,it was a privilege to be able to present an award from the High Sheriff Youth awards who have supported this work for several years.Thank you to all the many other supporters who enable the annual presentations to happen.
It was a happy moment to be able to present the High Sheriff Youth Awards certificate to Skillway in Godalming and to thank the staff and dedicated volunteers for all they do to help 45 young people a year learn out of the school environment carpentry,metal work and creativity arts. The importance of this opportunity to these young people cannot be over emphasised. Thankyou Skillway for making Surreys communities safer and stronger.