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It’s the most wonderful time of the year… But still……No Big Tree Night?!

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

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Mind.Full Education

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

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Rehearsals are well underway for a local Christmas treat, Themba Theatre’s performance of Elf Jr. at the Cecil Hepworth Playhouse in Walton from 17th – 19th December

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

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Let’s Flower Bomb!

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

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Spelthorne in Bloom -Shepperton & Laleham are blooming marvels!

We, at Shepperton Matters, have always cham-pioned the Spelthorne in Bloom initiative. Gardens give so much pleasure, brighten our borough and the benefits all round for mental health and well being is well documented.  Shepperton and Laleham did extremely well this year;  The Three Horseshoes won 1st place in the small pubs category.  Laleham won

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