Charity/voluntary

Not even the small matter of the global economic crisis could stop kind-hearted folk donating in droves to Shepperton's two rotary clubs, with presidents reporting a record £10,000 given over the festive period.

The clubs, Shepperton Aurora Rotary Club and Shepperton Rotary Club, made their traditional collections accompanied by Santa and his sleigh, traipsing the streets of Shepperton and paying visits to Tesco in Sunbury and Notcutts garden centre in Laleham.

AFTER seeing a cyclist injured in a smash with a car, a fence flattened and a wall knocked down all in one journey, a councillor has warned drivers to be careful over the Christmas period.

On her way to Kingston last week, Staines County Councillor Denise Turner-Stewart saw the cyclist hurt in Hampton Court Way, East Molesey, just minutes after seeing the mangled fence in Hurst Road, Walton and a wall turned to rubble in Walton Bridge Road, Shepperton.

Forget Jimmy Savile and instead call on Shepperton carer Samantha Bradley to fix it and make your kids' dreams come true.

Samantha, from Gaston Way, is in the final throes or organising a charity ball for little Maxwell Lovell, a two-year-old who has just had a tumour discovered on his spinal chord.

Hospital Radio Wey's presenter John Charman presents his 1000th programme on Sunday 21st September at the North Surrey Radio Station's studios at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.

John has been presenting The Big Band Hour, every Sunday from 2-4pm and has charmed listeners with his authoritative and entertaining style.

The regulator OFCOM have granted the hard working volunteers of Hospital Radio Wey an FM channel to broadcast their superb variety of music & local information programmes.

With a strong commitment to the local community and a passion to broadcast information that is relevant to listeners across the area the Chertsey based radio station will be pulling out all the stops from 16 October through to 12 November.

AN ARSON-hit High Street charity shop will reopen on September 19.
Connect was targeted by yobs in February and suffered extensive fire damage both inside and out after the suspects left a lit cigarette on a plastic donation bag outside the front door.

The Princess Alice Hospice Therapy Team members are leading by example; they have been building up their fitness levels and getting in some additional training following their registration for the very first, Princess Alice Hospice MIDNIGHT WALK on Saturday 6 September.

The therapy team, led by their manager Kathy Birch has signed up for the 13.1-mile challenge, Kathy has also recruited some of her friends and together they go by the name "Team G N O". They are a group of friends planning a fun "Girls Night Out" whilst at the same time raising vital funds for their local Hospice.

Here's your chance to be part of an exciting new local radio service for Shepperton and nearby towns.

Popular local radio station Brooklands FM will soon be launching full-time internet broadcasting with local news, views, interviews, sport, traffic and weather, all built around great popular music old and new.

Midnight walks are becoming synonymous with fundraising at Hospices and normally they are women only events.

The Princess Alice Hospice is always looking to do something different and that is why the first Princess Alice Hospice Midnight Walk will be open to men, women and children over 14 years of age.

A charity concert raised more than £5,000 for the UK Multiple Sclerosis Society in Shepperton on Saturday, June 28.