Horsell Panel Meeting – 10th April

The next Horsell Panel Meeting will take place on Wednesday 10th April at 7.30pm in Horsell Village Hall.

Come along and meet the local safer neighbourhood team and please feel free to bring up any local issues or concerns you may have.

The priorities set out at the last panel meeting were:

• To work on the burglary issue in Horsell
• To work on the anti-social behaviour issue in Horsell

Please come along to share your views on what issues you feel most affect our community.

PC Rebecca Holder and PCSO Derek Slee will be happy to address anything you put forward.

For more information, visit the Horsell pages of the Surrey Police website.

What’s on in Horsell 1st-7th April 2013

If you’d like your event or group listed in a Horsell What’s on blogpost, please contact horsellresident@gmail.com.

Tues 2nd: Slim and Zumba in Horsell Village Hall, 10-11.30am. Contact 01483 822121 for details.

Quiz night at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, 8pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Horsell community choir, in the Village Hall, 7-9pm. All welcome! £6. See previous blogpost for more information.

Weds 3rd: Rhyme time for babies and toddlers at Woking library at 11am.

‘Spring paper hats’ drop-in family workshop at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, for children aged 4+. Drop in anytime 1.30-4pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Horsell Runners regular run, starts at 7.45pm from outside the Beijing Restaurant, High Street. Just come along or contact info@horsellrunners.org.

Thurs 4th: ‘Printing your own stationery’ workshops at The Lightbox, Chobham Road. Workshop for 4-8 year olds 1-2.30pm and workshop for 8-16 year olds 3-4.30pm. £6.50 per child. Call 01483 737837 to book.

The Horsell Afternoon branch of the Women’s Institute (WI) is meeting for ‘Antiques Roadshow’ with Keith Mansford at 1.45pm in Horsell Village Hall. Visitors are always welcome. Call 01483 475 341 or email beryl.dunham2@btinternet.com for details.

Fri 5th: Regular coffee morning 10am-12pm at St Mary’s, Church Hill. Call 01483 772172 for details.

‘Spring paper garlands’ drop-in family workshop at The Lightbox, Chobham Road. Suitable for children aged 4+. Drop in anytime 1.30-4pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Live music from NRG at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, 9pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Live music from Will Shackleton at The Red Lion pub, High Street, from 8pm. Call 01483 768 497 for details.

The Goldsworth Park Big Pull Together

On Saturday 20th April, the Goldsworth Park Safer Neighbourhood Team are holding a community fundraising day to raise money for the Goldsworth Park Community Association charity: The Goldsworth Park Big Pull Together.

The GPCA is a community-based charity that runs the community centre at Goldwater Lodge for the residents of Goldsworth Park and host annual events and competitions, and produce the local newsletter. Unfortunately in early December 2012 their community centre and Toad Hall Nursery was victim to arson and suffered extensive damage. Since then the hall has been unusable leaving the GPCA without a home.

The aim of the Goldsworth Park Big Pull Together is to bring local residents together, increase fire safety awareness and raise money for the GPCA charity which has given so much to the community.

The Goldsworth Park Big Pull Together will be running from 11am till 4pm on Saturday 20th April at Goldsworth Park Lake with several fun attractions on the day.

• Time Trial event towing a police van 1 mile around Goldsworth Park Lake between Surrey Police, Surrey Fire and Rescue, Woking Borough Council and Waitrose
• Chip pan fire safety demonstrations from Surrey Fire and Rescue
• Bouncy Castles
• Cake Stalls
• Bicycle Races with Charlotteville Rascals for children and young people
• Bicycle repair workshop and property marking
• Fishing Competition
• Guided tour of the area
• Raffles and much more!

Come down on the day and show your support. If anyone would like to get involved on the day, or would like more information, please contact PCSO Sarah Wentworth at woking@surrey.police.uk or telephone 101, extension 39944.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter on @Wokingbeat for updates on the event #GWPBigPull

Derek Slee
Police Community Support Officer – Horsell

What’s on in Horsell 25th-31st March 2013

If you’d like your event or group listed in a Horsell What’s on blogpost, please contact horsellresident@gmail.com.

Mon 25th: Yoga (mixed ability) in Horsell Village Hall. 10-11.30am, £7.50 per session. Contact 01483 724065 for details.

Live jazz from Panama Café Orchestra at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, from 8.30pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Horsell Book Group meets in the Red Lion, last Monday of the month, contact horsellbookgroup@gmail.com.

Tues 26th: Informal group for babies, toddlers and carers meets for play and socialising every Tuesday during term time, 10am-12pm in the St Andrew’s Room at St Mary’s, Church Hill. Call 01483 772172 for details.

Storytelling for under 5s at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 11-11.40am. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Slim and Zumba in Horsell Village Hall, 10-11.30am. Contact 01483 822121 for details.

Begin or expand your family history research online in a workshop at Woking library, 10.30am-12pm, £5.

Horsell community choir, in the Village Hall, 7-9pm. All welcome! £6. See previous blogpost for more information.

The Horsell Evening branch of the Women’s Institute (WI) is meeting at 8pm in Horsell Village Hall. Visitors are always welcome. Call 01483 760783 for details.

Weds 27th: Audio-described tour, for blind and partially sighted visitors, of the Elisabeth Frink retrospective at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 10.30am-1pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 to book.

Storytime for babies and toddlers at Woking library at 11am.

Horsell Runners regular run, starts at 7.45pm from outside the Beijing Restaurant, High Street. Just come along or contact info@horsellrunners.org.

Quiz night at The Crown pub, 104 High Street, 9pm. Call 01483 771719 for details.

Fri 29th: Live music from The Loungers at The Red Lion pub, High Street, from 8pm. Call 01483 768 497 for details.

Sat 30th: Farmers’ market (Woking town centre), 9am-2.30pm.

Sun 31st: Live music from Gavin Thomas at The Red Lion pub, High Street. Call 01483 768 497 for details.

What’s on in Horsell 18-24th March 2013

If you’d like your event or group listed in a Horsell What’s on blogpost, please contact horsellresident@gmail.com.

Mon 18th: Yoga (mixed ability) in Horsell Village Hall. 10-11.30am, £7.50 per session. Contact 01483 724065 for details.

Live jazz from The Po’ Boys at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, from 8.30pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Tues 19th: Informal group for babies, toddlers and carers meets for play and socialising every Tuesday during term time, 10am-12pm in the St Andrew’s Room at St Mary’s, Church Hill. Call 01483 772172 for details.

Slim and Zumba in Horsell Village Hall, 10-11.30am. Contact 01483 822121 for details.

Horsell community choir, in the Village Hall, 7-9pm. All welcome! £6. See previous blogpost for more information.

Quiz night at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, from 8pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Weds 20th: Storytime for babies and toddlers at Woking library at 11am

Drawing workshop for adults at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 10.30am-12.30pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 to book.

Horsell Runners regular run, starts at 7.45pm from outside the Beijing Restaurant, High Street. Just come along or contact info@horsellrunners.org.

Quiz night at The Crown pub, 104 High Street, 9pm. Call 01483 771719 for details.

Thurs 21st: Farmers’ market (Woking town centre), 9am-2.30pm.

Fri 22nd: Horsell Neighbourhood Team of Surrey Police is holding their regular daytime surgery at St Mary’s, Churchill, during their coffee morning, between 10.30am and 12pm.

‘Elisabeth Frink, a collector’s view’ a talk at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 1pm, £6. Call 01483 737837 to book.

Live music from Steve Brookes at The Red Lion pub, High Street. Call 01483 768 497 for details.

Sat 23rd: Regular monthly litter pick, organised by the Second Thursday Club, meets at Queen Elizabeth gardens, 9.30am, all welcome.

Easter Family Fun afternoon at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 12-5pm. A range of free activities (donations welcome) including face painting, interactive storytelling and tours of the Elisabeth Frink exhibition. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Paper sculptures workshop at The Lightbox, Chobham Road. Drop in anytime 1.30-4pm. Suitable for children aged 4+. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

 

Horsell Village Hall AGM Monday 29th April

The 9th Annual General Meeting of Horsell Village Hall will be held at the Horsell Village Hall, High Street, Horsell on Monday 29th April 2013. The meeting will begin at 8.00pm (doors open at 7.45 pm).

Agenda

1.  Minutes from the 8th AGM held on Monday 23rd April 2012
2.  Chairman’s Report for 2012
3.  Matters Arising
4.  Treasurer’s Report 2012
5.  Matters Arising
6.  Election of Trustees to Managment Committee
7.  Appointment of an Independent Examiner of the Charity’s Accounts
8.  Development Plan for Horsell Village Hall, Scout Hut and Institute.
9.  Any Other Business

This meeting is open to members of the public who are interested in supporting the Trustees of the Horsell Village Hall and in finding out more about its planned development.

Diane Fagence
Secretary
Horsell Village Hall Trustees

Horsell Sports Ground Association

The Horsell Sports Ground Association, Brewery Road, is home to the Woking & Horsell Cricket Club, Football Club, and Squash Club. All residents of Horsell over the age of 18 are members of the Association; you are entitled to nominate applicants to sit on the Management Committee and to attend the Annual General Meeting to be held on 22nd April 2013, at the Sports Pavilion, commencing at 7pm.

The Management Committee comprises four Members nominated by the Cricket Club, Football Club, Horsell Residents’ Association and the Squash Club. Four Members will also be elected from residents of Horsell at the AGM.

The Association was formed in 1921 with the intention to provide a sports ground and social club for Horsell; the Cricket and Football clubs were granted tenancy. In 1922, the Cricket Club funded a pitch, and the Association built the pavilion. Over the next decade, the grounds established tennis courts, a putting green, held a flower show, were used by the Scouts, and held schools sports events.

Over the years, founder members/Trustees dwindled, such that in 1993 the land became Bona Vacantia, owned by the Crown. This resulted in a proposal for Tesco Supermarket warehouse, a scheme for affordable housing, both unwanted and inappropriate developments.

In 1995, the Horsell Residents’ Association provided support to the last remaining Trustee. Complicated and protracted negotiations took place between our appointed Solicitors, the National Playing Fields Association, the Treasury Solicitor, and the Charity Commission in order to create a new Trust. The new HSGA held its Founding Meeting in December 2001, and the transfer of the land to the NFPA as Custodian Trustees took place a few months later. The HSGA Trustee Management Committee was elected responsible for managing the Trust. The Constitution of the HSGA governs the activities permitted on the ground, held in Trust for the residents of Horsell, which cannot be used for development except under the conditions of the Constitution.

The sports ground is a vital part of the Horsell community, thanks to a small number of dedicated residents who overcame, against all the odds, unwanted commercial interests.

If you value the Sports Ground and wish to join the HSGA Committee please arrange for a nomination letter to be sent before 20th March 2013 to The Honorary Secretary, Horsell Sports Ground Association, 64 Brewery Road, Horsell, GU21 4QH.

David Bromley
Chair, HSGA

Horsell Garden Safari in June – please open your garden!

The weekend of 15th and 16th June will host the 11th year of Horsell Garden Safari and the key to making it work is NEW gardens.

Since 2002, the Horsell Garden Safari has given us all the opportunity to visit our village gardens, to share gardening stories, meet old friends and new, and enjoy a cuppa and cake sitting beneath a parasol and enjoying the fruits of someone else’s labour! All the proceeds go to support Horsell Village Hall, which is undergoing extensive refurbishment. This is such an important building for the village for residents to use and enjoy. We need your help to make this year as successful as ever!

We need six to eight unexplored gardens this time, as well as those of the regulars who have supported us over the years. Do you have a garden that you would like to open, or do you have a neighbour who has a lovely garden?

Let’s make this the best ever Garden Safari, with gardens we have come to love open again and many new gardens to visit for the first time.

So who can open their garden?

Anyone can who loves gardening, whether your garden is big or small, wild flowers and eco-friendly or manicured; flowers, veg or patio; sun-drenched or shaded. Please check below, because we are inviting not only keen gardeners, but have some new ideas:

• You can open for one or both days; please let us know your preference.
• You can open your front or back garden or both, your patio full of bright flowers or ferns, small or large; it is not a competition!
• Your children may have their own garden they would like to show off.
• A garden with historical interest (it may have been a former nursery, farm, forge, mill, prison, brewery, school or have an air raid shelter).
• A house with a history – just to go into the garden and look at from the outside!
• Communal; a close or street where gardeners may like to open together.
• A pub garden.
• A school garden.

Optional extras, which you may be able to offer, will add extra and sometimes new interest to the day:

• Refreshments.
• Plant sales.
• Homemade cakes, jams, crafts; if you would like to sell your homemade produce or work, you could sell in your own garden or a friend’s, please ask.
• An ‘eye-spy’ quiz for children and young at heart! Please let us know if you have an interesting plant, animal or feature in your garden that we could include in a quiz.

Saturday 15 June, at 10.30am, will see the official opening of the Pares Woodland Garden which is being restored by volunteer Horsell residents.

Please support the Garden Safari, by opening your garden and by buying the schedule (£7) in local shops, for a full weekend of neighbourly fun. Don’t be shy! Let us know now if you can open your garden.

Contact

• Gail Bromley on 01483 764521 or G.Bromley@kew.org
• Penny Kramer on 01483 761455 or colinandpenny@sky.com
• Caroline Hughes on 01483 767980 or c.e.hughes@ntlworld.com

Plant Sale for Woking Community Hospital

We have also linked up with the Friends of Woking Community Hospital (WCH) and its annual plant sale will be held in the open garden at Little Upton, Ridgeway during Safari weekend.

The sale will raise funds for the Bradley Unit at WCH, a centre of excellence for neuro rehabilitation services in Surrey. The new, larger unit will have 20 beds, serving patients with brain damage or mobility problems following strokes or car accidents. The NHS can only provide conventional showers, which mean that patients need help to wash themselves and when using the toilets. Therefore funds from the plant sale will go towards a new wet room with wheelchair access, together with hoists and slings.

Penny Kramer

What’s on in Horsell 11-17th March 2013

If you’d like your event or group listed in a Horsell What’s on blogpost, please contact horsellresident@gmail.com.

Mon 11th: Yoga (mixed ability) in Horsell Village Hall. 10-11.30am, £7.50 per session. Contact 01483 724065 for details.

Live jazz from Frog Island Jazzband at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, from 8.30pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Tues 12th: Informal group for babies, toddlers and carers meets for play and socialising every Tuesday during term time, 10am-12pm in the St Andrew’s Room at St Mary’s, Church Hill. Call 01483 772172 for details.

Slim and Zumba in Horsell Village Hall, 10-11.30am. Contact 01483 822121 for details.

Storytelling for under 5s at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 11-11.40am. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Horsell community choir, in the Village Hall, 7-9pm. All welcome! £6. See previous blogpost for more information.

Weds 13th: Storytime for babies and toddlers at Woking library at 11am.

Horsell Runners regular run, starts at 7.45pm from outside the Beijing Restaurant, High Street. Just come along or contact info@horsellrunners.org.

Quiz night at The Crown pub, 104 High Street, 9pm. Call 01483 771719 for details.

Thurs 14th: Tour of Elisabeth Frink exhibition at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 12.30-1pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 to book.

Live music from Robbie Lee at The Plough pub, Cheapside. Call 01483 714105 for details.

The Second Thursday Club meets at Birch House, Horsell Birch, at 8pm. For more information contact Tony Kremer on a.kremer@ntlworld.com.

Fri 15th: Painting for under 5s at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, £3 per child, dress for mess. Call 01483 737837 to book.

Regular coffee morning 10am-12pm at St Mary’s, Church Hill. Call 01483 772172 for details.

Live music from James Deane at The Red Lion pub, High Street. Call 01483 768 497 for details.

Sat 16th: Regular monthly litter pick, organised by the Second Thursday Club, meets at Queen Elizabeth gardens, 9.30am, all welcome. Postponed, now taking place next Saturday (23rd) from 9.30am.

The St Mary’s church music group pianist has organised a day of non-stop piano playing, to raise money for two local charities. The pianothon will take place in Middle Walk, Wolsey Place, 9am-5pm. For more information, contact Sue on 01483 772008 or mmagpies@rocketmail.com.

New edition of ‘The Resident’ magazine

The spring edition of The Resident, the magazine of the Horsell Residents’ Association, is on its way to Horsell residents thanks to our dedicated team of volunteer road stewards.

You can also download a PDF of the magazine, and read lots of the articles, on the magazine pages of the blog.

Among other things, this edition includes:

• Horsell Residents’ Association AGM
• New ideas
• Core strategy plan
• Tommy D teenagers volunteer in Kenya
• Bus travel to hospitals from Horsell
• The Lightbox receives Big Society Award
• Lady with the lamps
• Defending Horsell in WWII
• Woking High School

We didn’t have room to include the answers to the Christmas quiz, but they’re all available online, just click here.

If you would like to contact the editor, Linda Banks, with any feedback or suggestions for future editions, her email address is: theresidenteditor@gmail.com