By Inspector Maxine Cilia I hope that you all had a good Christmas or festive celebra-tion, and I would like to start this by wishing everyone a happy and safe new year. I always hope that your new year resolutions will include things such as “I must join my local neighbourhood watch group”, or “how …
Spelthorne Borough Council are committed to supporting our most vulnerable households and, over the winter, we are providing finan-cial assistance via the government’s House-hold Support Fund (HSF) grant scheme. The Council will be providing funds via one-off payments ranging from £50 to £80, de-pending on the household’s situation, as de-tailed below: £50 per household for …
Dramatize Tea Room is bringing a little Christmas Spirit to Charlton Village! With community spirit at the heart of this little tea room, the team invite you all to send your letters to Santa in their post box and re-ceive a personalised letter in return. They simply ask for you to include a pre-stamped envelope …
Simple Winter Tasks By Rachael Leverton This year’s festive season (at least at time of writing), is shaping up to be a little more ‘normal’, whatever that term now means. While most of us are looking forward to more socialising and togetherness, I’m betting a fair few might think back fondly to last year’s smaller, …
Do you have a recipe to share? Food, and preparing and sharing food with our family and friends may express many things about our identity, history, culture, community and lives. Now, to celebrate the joy of food and the im-portance of our gorgeous neighbours we have decided to put together a Shepperton Commu-nity Cookbook. After …
Shepperton Aurora Rotary Club is very pleased that this year’s Youth Speaks- A Debate compe-tition is able go ahead; the intermediate competition took place on Tuesday 9th November at the Jubilee Centre, Manygate Lane, Shepperton but due to Covid there were fewer teams. The com-petition is in the form of a debate with each team …
At the time of writing, it would be nearly 4 weeks until Big Tree Night 2021. But sadly, as you all know Big Tree Night is not taking place this year. The committee have been bombarded with the ‘why nots’ and ‘really, we are not in lock-down’ and ‘we have our freedom so what’s the …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… But still……No Big Tree Night?! Read More »
For Harvest Festival, The Burlington Care Home in Shepperton has been collecting non-perishable food items in aid of the local food bank, ‘Bags of Food’, affiliated with the Jubilee Church. We would like to thank all of our families and team members who have donated so generously for this really im-portant cause and helping our …
Nicola and Sam have been working together for a year to introduce this much needed pro-vision to the local and surrounding communi-ties. In December 2021, Sam answered Nico-la’s phone call, to help support her daughter with the trauma of cyber bullying. It was when they started to discuss their families and the love for their …
Local artist Peggy Pickering was delighted when the painting of poppies at the Tower of London, which she had donated, was auctioned at the Royal British Legion in Sunbury bids started at £200 and in the end it raised £560 which will go to the poppy appeal. How lovely to take the trouble of suggesting …
Themba is a Shepperton-based amateur youth theatre group which raises money for Compassion UK, a charity which helps to bring children out of poverty. Elf Jr is based on the popular movie Elf but with the addition of song and dance, in a specially-adapted 70 minute show. It is such fun and will definitely leave …
By John Taylor | Photo, Laleham Players It’s that time of year, when at theatres throughout the country we hear the sound of “He’s behind you”, “Oh yes it is” and “Oh no it isn’t”. A festive outing for all ages, a visit to a pantomime is great fun. It’s usually a child’s first theatre …
With the focus recently on the environment and biodiversity, this is the time to see what we can all do to encourage wildlife at the same time as making our communities beautiful and attrac-tive places to live. Community projects to reclaim unloved land have sprung up and you may have seen wild flowers embellishing previously …
Merry Christmas everyone! Although Big Tree Night was cancelled this year, a small group of volunteers have been hard at work over the last few months – taking orders for Christmas Trees from our High Street traders – so that the street can light up at the beginning of December. CHRISTMAS in Shepperton has not …
Thank you to Laurie Burrell for sharing his experi-ence on November 14th when he had the opportunity to attend the Royal British Legion Cenotaph Parade as a representative of the Soldiers Sailors Airman Family Association (SSAFA) of which he is a Surrey Branch member for Spelthorne and Runnymede. Our instructions for the day from SSAFA …
We attended the official opening of the new Woodward Building at Halliford School last month. What a fabulous addition this is. From start to finish the three storey building went up in 21 weeks. The design is modular, cho-sen to be the fastest build with the least im-pact on locals. Named after school Chair of …
New Service and Christmas Hours We are pleased to say we are getting a good number of requests for our services, following our restart in July, although some days our drivers have little, or nothing to do. One area where we are not getting requests is to take clients to the Health Centres for GP …
By Rory Edwards Rory Edwards is a local parent, teacher of 28 years and a school governor. He offers us an insight into certain dilemmas parents might face throughout the school year. Over the past few weeks, we have been look-ing at different schools as our middle daughter is now in year 11. She is …
By Nick Pollard Halliford School was founded in 1921 as Shepperton Grammar School, and occupied a building in Laleham Road, just by the present junction with Manor Farm Avenue. It provid-ed education for boys and girls from the ages of 5 to 14. The school was founded and owned by the first Headmaster, Alfred Dobree …
By Ken Battle Lists of Iron Age hoards in Great Britain make reference to the ‘Sunbury’ Hoard, but a more accurate description would have been the Shepperton Hoard. The confusion arose when Mr. A.J. Buttress, the Surveyor for the Sunbury Urban District Council, reported the discovery in April 1950 to the old London Museum, who unfortunately …
