Westcott Village Magazine

Westcott VillageMagazine

June 2018

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Advertisements Index …….……76 - 77Arts Society..................................74 - 75Business of the Month................63 - 65Christian Aid.......................................25Church Picnic & Songs of Praise. ..........5Coffee Morning ......…………………...3District Councillor Writes ……….29 - 35Dorking Choral Society.....................47Dorking Egg Hunt Results...................71Dorking Museum ……………..…55 - 59Eco Church ………………..…….10 - 12F@sh.....................................................27Floodlighting …………………………....9From Alan Jonas……………….........…4Get Involved …………………………...8Holy Trinity Services …………………....6Jaz2 Charity Event.............................45Jim Glover - High Sheriff ….....…49 - 53Keep Westcott Wonderful................40Liz Harcombe Success.......................47Local History Group ……..…………..19Mole Valley Poets..............................35Music for a Summer’s Evening.........19Music in Dorking …….…….…….59 - 61News from The Hut............……..15 - 17Parish Register …………………….……9The Past is a Foreign Country …...…67QR Memorial Woodland ….......67 - 69Riverbank Surgery ……………………77Surrey Hills School..……….….……….14Westcott Baby Meals ………………..13Westcott Bridge Club ……………….73Westcott Gardeners’ Club........37 - 39Westcott Women’s Group …….…...69Westcott Village Association …21 - 25Westcott Village Car Service ……...79WESTfest Rocks.....................….……...41Westfest - What’s Happening?........42Westfest Silent Auction......................43Who’s Who in Westcott …..…...78 - 79

Westcott has a population of over 2,000 and this is the only magazine written specifically for the Westcott area by the people of Westcott. It is hand delivered, free of charge, to every household and further copies are available at the church, local shops, pub and doctor’s surgery.

If you have any articles, photos, letters, etc that you think we may like to feature in the next issue, please email the Editor on:[email protected] please note, publication will always be subject to space and at the discretion of the Editor.

Copy Deadline for July 2018 issue:8th June 2018

This magazine, published by the Church in Westcott, is printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) accredited paper from a sustainable source. The views expressed are those of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Church, Editor or Westcott residents.

Cover Photograph: Metamorphosed by Edward Bennett

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Welcome to my first edition of the Westcott parish magazine. Many thanks to Alison and all the editorial team for their help, and please

excuse any beginner’s mistakes! I am excited to be joining the team and finding out about even more of the things going on in our village.

Many of the families in Westcott will be going through the exam period at the moment, either GCSEs or A levels, with all the accompanying stress and required organisation, and I wish everybody the best of luck over the next few weeks. Just remember that a little stress can be motivational – but too much is counterproductive,

so do talk to someone if you are feeling overwhelmed; it really can help. After you’ve finished you can enjoy the longest summer break you’ll ever have!

There is plenty to get involved in this month in Westcott, with details of activities from the Gardening Club on p37, the Quick Response Memorial Woodland on p69, and the Community Picnic on p5, and there are masses of musical events. There is some interesting information about the plans for the Hut, which everybody should take a look at on page 15. Cath [email protected]

FROM THE EDITOR

WESTCOTT VILLAGE COFFEE MORNING

atThe Reading Room

Wednesday 6th June 10.30 – 12.00 mid-day

Open to everyone Children welcome

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YOUR CHURCH … YOUR FUTURE

It is no secret that Jenny & I will almost certainly move on

from Westcott in a few years’ time.

Our house in Devon with views to hills and through a valley, beckons us to retirement. As long as we are here, we remain fully committed to our ministry in Westcott and beyond, but it is, nonetheless the case, that the Church in Westcott is, and will increasingly become, yours much more than it is ours.

What – if anything – do you hope for from your village Church ? What – if anything – are you prepared to give, in time and money, to ensure your village Church has a vibrant future ? The questions are apposite because the immediate and long-term future of any church depends on the engagement of the parish (local population). In particular, the Church in Westcott currently thrives on (i) the commitment of over 100 volunteers, (ii) giving that ensures the annual minimum costs of providing a church and vicar – c. £120,000 a year – are met (iii) the general goodwill of the people of Westcott.

We have two opportunities to reflect on all of this in June:-

CELEBRATION OF WESTCOTT CHURCH & COMMUNITY

10.15 am Sunday 10th June

‘Songs of Praise’ at Holy Trinity

with volunteers in our Church choosing the hymns.

An opportunity to say “thank you” to all who are involved in our Church.

Followed by the Village ‘Picnic on the Heath’

and

VISION 2018-2022

10 am – 4 pm

Saturday 23rd June at St Johns

A day to reflect and share together, to form the priorities for the next years of the life of the Church in Westcott.

I am sure the only village churches that will be open for worship and service through this century, will be the ones where the people of the village really appreciate having a church and engage with its needs. So, – unless you are not bothered if there is a church in Westcott or not – please consider how you are involved.

…FROM ALAN JONAS, VICAR OF WESTCOTT

WHAT – IF ANYTHING –

DO YOU HOPE FOR FROM

YOUR VILLAGE CHURCH ?

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Please show your appreciation and commitment by coming to the 10th June “Songs of Praise” service – just come along. You are also warmly invited to the Vision Day, but please tell me if you are coming.

There is so much to be thankful for and celebrate in the Church in Westcott – sparkling wine and cake will be provided on June 10th.

Thank you to all who are building now your church for your future.

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8.30 am: A traditional Communion service with hymns and organ, unless stated. 10.15 am: A ‘parish’ service, reflecting the people of the Church in Westcott, with organ and music group. Regular creche and children's activities. 6.00 pm: A quiet traditional service, usually ‘Evensong’. Communion with prayer for healing monthly.

DATE THEME 8:30AM 10:15AM 6:00PM

3rd June

I AM – The Vine

Book of Common Prayer Communion

Celebrate Breakfast Communion (9:30am breakfast)

Evensong

No music

10th June

Celebration / Thank You


Morning Worship

Evensong

17th June

Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Where is God when Life Hurts? Job 4-27


Parish Communion

Holy Communion with Prayer for Healing

24th June

Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Where is God when Life Hurts? Job 4-27, 29-31


Parish Communion

Evensong

Wednesdays 10am Term Time Communion at St John’s

Thursdays 8:30am Morning Prayer at St John’s

SERVICES AT HOLY TRINITY

We run a regular programme of worship services and other activities for young and old. Everyone is welcome as we build friendships and share life together!

MID WEEK SERVICES

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WHAT’S ON FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN JUNE?

‘Celebrate’ is the name for all the things we do at the Church in Westcott to help

children and families to live life, love life and share life to the full! Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve been to church before or not. There’s a place here for you!

Celebrate Breakfast Service is our monthly all age service held at Holy Trinity Church from 9:30-11:15 am. We enjoy a simple breakfast at 9:30, followed by a short communion service at 10:15 with worship, prayer, craft & Bible stories. There’s no charge for breakfast. Just come and enjoy building friendships and sharing life! The next Celebrate Breakfast Service is at Holy Trinity on Sunday, 3rd June.

Celebrate Tea Service is our monthly all age service held at St John’s, Furlong Road from 3:30- 5:00pm. We start with worship, prayer, craft, games and Bible stories, followed by a bring & share tea together. Our next Celebrate Tea Service is at St John’s on Sunday, 24th June. This will be our last Tea Service before the summer break – so don’t miss out! Come along!

WHAT’S ON AT THE CHURCH IN WESTCOTT

10th June 10:15am ‘Songs of Praise’ at Holy Trinity

10th June 12:15pm-3:15pm A Picnic for Everyone at Westcott Heath (above Holy Trinity Church)

20th June 7:45pm Encounter Worship at St Johns

23rd June 10am – 4pm Church in Westcott Vision Day at St John’s

24th June 3:30pm Celebrate Tea Service at St John’s

CELEBRATE

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THANK YOU! This Village Magazine There has been excellent progress in filling vacancies. This magazine, of course, has a new editor – many thanks to Cath Friend for taking this on, and to Andrea Gabb for undertaking the recruitment.

Breakfast Service Team Thanks to the team that is coming together to provide monthly Sunday breakfasts at Holy Trinity – Carol Smetham, Glynis Cranefield, Louise Scillitoe-Brown, Pam Miller, Geoffrey & Jennifer Staves, Sue Meek.

Westfest Thank you to Malcolm Bradley for organising the Church presence at Westfest.

St John’s Thank you to Tony Astor who in his position as St Johns General Manager, is covering the Lettings Officer responsibilities, at least for the time being.

Sabbatical – Liz Bradley When you are very committed in Christian ministry it is important, every so often, to take a complete break, rest, pray and review. Liz Bradley has been hugely committed to the Church in Westcott for several years. We are indebted to Liz, and her

husband, Malcolm, for all that they have done. Liz is taking the next few months for this much needed sabbatical. Please do not contact her regarding any church matters in this time.

SITUATIONS VACANT We are still looking for the following:

Dorking Deanery Secretary The role involves helping to plan and minute Deanery Synod meetings. Christmas Choir ‘Recruitment Officer’. The task is simply to notify people about rehearsals and encourage/chivvy them to come. (Choir direction is undertaken by James Tunstill). Everyone committed, no-one over-committed….What do you do ? If you can help/are interested in any of these posts, please do not hesitate to contact me. Alan Jonas [email protected] 885309

CONGRATULATIONS! Many congratulations to Jim Glover, on becoming High Sheriff of Surrey. I am privileged and delighted to be Jim’s Chaplain for the year. I am sure you will hear more in the coming months what this means, but a good start would be to come to the 10.15 am 10th June ‘Songs of Praise’ service where Jim will be one of the parishioners choosing a hymn. Alan Vicar; Area Dean of Dorking; Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Surrey

GET INVOLVED!

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Alan and Gill O’Hea, who are parishioners of St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dorking, are pleased to sponsor the Holy Trinity floodlighting for the month of June.

If you would like to sponsor the floodlighting (running reduced hours from dusk to 2am to be more eco friendly), please contact Sarah Massey at [email protected] or on 01306 887413. (Suggested donation of £74 to Westcott Church Funds.)

Baptism:

29th April 2018 Cerys Joy Jonas Pearce

Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child:

6th May Joshua Henry Tillotson

Death:

24th November 2015 Vernon William Robert Gardner (93)

19th March 2018 Simon James Barnes (70)

FLOODLIGHTING

FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS

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ABOUT BEES, AND HOW TO ENCOURAGE THEM Did you know there are more than 250 species of bee in Britain?

By far the largest group are solitary bees who make individual nests in a variety of ways: mining bees tunnel down to make an underground nest; masonry bees seek out crumbling mortar; potter bees make a tiny earthen pot for their eggs; and leaf-cutter bees do much the same, but with a chunk of leaf carved off your prize rose-bush! Cuckoo bees don’t bother at all, but lay their eggs in the nests of other bees!

However, the bees we are all familiar with are social bees: Bumble-bees, more than 25 species of them in Britain mostly with nests of a few hundred insects in banks or tree crevices; and the Honey-bee which has colonies up to 60,000. And it is these two which are vitally important as pollinators of more than 75% of food crops. With threats from pesticides, and loss of wild countryside, due to building or modern agriculture, bees are becoming more dependent on gardens - so it is worth encouraging them to visit.

So what do bees need? Like all living creatures they must have water and food. Bees drink from dewdrops or the edges of puddles, but in dry weather they appreciate a shallow tray of water with pebbles to land on and prevent them drowning.

Their food is nectar and pollen from flowers, but not all flowers have evolved to suit bees’ requirements. Bees have short tongues and a good sense of smell. They have excellent colour vision, but do not

see well at the red end of the spectrum and being heavy insects they need flowers they can land

on and hang on to while feeding. So old-fashioned ‘cottage garden’ flowers and single flowers, rather than double, are generally best.

As well as food and water some bees look for shelter. Some solitary bees, such as Red Mason Bees - which are excellent pollinators -appreciate the commercially available ‘bee houses’, consisting of narrow tubes packed horizontally into a wall-mounted container. We have a large ‘bug hotel’ in the churchyard at Holy Trinity, to attract solitary bees and other insects.

Pat Verral

… VITALLY IMPORTANT AS

POLLINATORS OF MORE

THAN 75% OF FOOD CROPS

ECO CHURCH

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BEE-FRIENDLY PLANTS

Here are a few suggestions for bee-attracting plants for various, preferably sunny, situations:

In a tiny space: purple Crocuses, Grape Hyacinth (Muscari), Ice-plant (Sedum spectabile) is also loved by butterflies, Heathers (Calluna), Herb garden or pots: Chives, Thyme, Marjoram, Rosemary and Sage. Annuals: Pot Marigold

(Calendula), Cosmos, Phacelia tanacetifolia (no English name) seed is sold specifically for bee forage and green manure. An informal pond: Water Mint (Mentha

aquatica), also popular with some butterflies. A summer border: blue Globe Thistle (Echinops ritro), golden Rudbeckia fulgida eg ‘Goldsturm’, Catmint (Nepeta mussinii), Verbena bonariensis, any Michaelmas Daisy.

Small shrubs: blue or purple Hebe, Rosemary, Lavenders (leave the seedheads on until spring, Goldfinches enjoy them).

Medium shrubs: Rosa rugosa eg ‘Fru Dagmar Hastrup’ - large single flowers and red fruits for birds.

Large shrubs, trees, hedges: Firethorn (Pyracantha), Cotoneasters, Hawthorn and Rowan, all provide autumn fruit for birds too.

Lawns: Leave an un-manicured corner to plant perennial native wild flowers, eg Cowslip, White Clover, Red Clover, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Ox-eye Daisy, Knapweed, Scabious, Meadow Cranesbill.

BEE NEWS!

On 27th April the EU agreed a total ban on neonicotinoids, the major bee-killing pesticides. From late 2018, their use will only be permitted in closed glasshouses.

ECO CHURCH ECO CHURCH

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ECO CALENDAR: JUNE 2O18

The Great Bee Count 17th May to 30th June. Sign up now for FREE bee identification app www.friendsoftheearth.uk/bee-count Dorking Repair Café (Saturday, 2nd June 10.30-1) Dorking Christian Centre. www.repaircafe.org

30 Days Wild (1st-30th)

Take part in Random Acts of Wildness and help bring a little more nature into your life! www.mywildlife.org.uk

World Environment Day (5th) “If you can’t reuse it, refuse it”

Find out how you can help tackle plastic pollution. www.worldenvironmentday.global

World Oceans Day (8th)

Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean. www.worldoceansday.org

Global Wind Day (15th)

Wind supplied a record 15% of UK electricity in 2017! The latest Government statistics show that 76% of people support onshore wind – one of the cheapest forms of energy generation. Find out

more about clean, renewable wind energy www.1010uk.org/wind-facts-detail

Dorking Solar Group drop-in event: Switch to clean energy (9th 9.30am-2pm) Burgundy & Black, St Martin’s Walk. Come along to see if you could save money and help nature by choosing a renewable electricity supplier.

National Insect Week (18th-24th)

Discover more about insects www.nationalinsectweek.co.uk

Clean Air Day (21st) Did you know that the economic impact of ill health caused by air pollution is similar to that caused by obesity and smoking? www.cleanairday.org.uk

ECO CHURCH

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Westcott Baby Meals

For over 14 years, families of new babies in Westcott have been receiving ‘Baby Meals’, a gift of a hot meal for the whole family, delivered to their door for two weeks. An initiative driven by the Church in Westcott , it is a practical and highly valued service, provided by people across the Westcott community. Please join our ‘Baby Meals’ cooks rota and support this wonderful community gift, OR if you live in Westcott and are expecting a baby, or know someone who is....Please get in touch: [email protected] or 07710 425487

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Surrey Hills C of E Primary School News

We have had a busy start to the Summer Term, at Surrey Hills. Below are some of the highlights:

Sportshall Athletics County Final

Year 5 and 6 Sportshall Athletics team won the district competition back in March, giving them the right to represent the district in the County Finals on Tuesday this week. The finals took place at Elmbridge Leisure Centre in Walton on Thames. Beginning with an opening ceremony where the teams paraded with their school flags and took part in a fun warm up, twelve districts competed in the Sportshall Athletics competition, featuring six track and six field events. Our team of 24 children performed extremely well against some very large schools. We did particularly well in the field events, finishing 4th overall in the county, and just two points behind the bronze medallist. Congratulations to all the children who have trained really hard and sup-ported each other so well as a team.

Spotlight on ….. Reception Reception recently had a very special Mystery Guest with four legs! Tettle the Lamb came to visit and we were able to bottle feed her as she explored our classroom. We found out she had been living in a kitchen as her mummy didn't have enough milk for her. "She was very soft and fluffy" Joe - Bees. "It was funny when she weed on her towel!" Beatrice - Caterpillars. With thanks to Mrs Hopper for bring Tettle in to see us. We also have Tadpoles in our classroom as we learn about lifecycles and we are looking forward to seeing what happens to them next.

Years 1 and 2 Sayers Croft Trip

On Tuesday, as part of their ‘British Wildlife’ learning theme, the children in Years 1 and 2 visited Sayers Croft Outdoor Learning Centre. Clarence - Butterflies said, 'It was the best trip ever'. Sammy - 'I didn't want to leave, it was so much fun!'

Easter Pause Day Key stage one and Early years celebrated pause day at Abinger with lots of exciting and thoughtful activities. The day finished with an Easter Bonnet parade where the children showed off their wonderful creations . Thankfully the rain stopped just in time. We look forward to seeing you and the children for the Maypole dancing at WESTfest on Sunday 8th July and at the Abinger Medieval Fayre on Saturday 9th June.

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For the last 18 months, the Hut Trustees and the Committee have been working towards securing the future of a community building on this site.

The maze of rooms that makes up the Hut and the general fabric of the building and its grounds were judged beyond economic repair by a Charity Commission authorised surveyor and an urgent decision had to be made as to the future of the Hut.

Consequently, the Trustees and the Hut Committee needed to decide how we could continue to provide community services in the centre of Westcott and also ensure the

presence of the services in the village for long period of time going into the future.In late 2016 we were approached by South Street Surgery who were looking to establish a new modern surgery in the centre of Westcott following their merger with Tom Guilder at the current Riverbank Surgery.

We invited a number of developers to propose the building of a new Community Centre and Surgery on the current site with the provision of associated housing and parking.

Following a detailed review of all of the proposed schemes the Trustees and the Committee chose Latchmere Properties; a Dorking based Developer

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with an excellent local record of successful development projects.

As our charter demanded we held a public meeting in October 2017 at which the plans were displayed and explained and all attendees during the day were asked to complete a questionnaire to give their views on the planned development. Over 90% of the responses were positive and agreed that the development should go ahead.

Latchmere will be building a new Community Centre, a state of the art NHS Surgery with greater capacity than is currently available at the Riverbank Practice, and 6 new houses with 12 rear parking spaces. There are also 12 parking places available for the Surgery during the day and the Community Centre in the evenings.

The new community building will com-prise of a main hall with retractable stage and storage with an attached commercial kitchen and bar area. The lobby contains toilets, stairwell and lift to a first-floor area with seating and storage.

The building will also have full disabled access. During the day, parking spaces will total 6 then 12 in the evening after the surgery closes but

we are aware that this may change during the planning stages.

This Community Centre will not just be a space to rent out, it is intended to be a new link bringing together our community and we will be working closely with the new surgery practice, providing services and support as well as leisure activities and clubs.

These include:•Morning coffee and lunch clubs•Links with Age Concern and other support agencies to use us as a point of contact.•Courses and groups led by the GP practice for health and wellness.•Outreach to those who are living alone and need companionship.•Activities and groups for children and young people – Restart the Westcott Youth Club•Movie Club, Tea Dances and Exercise Clubs.

We also plan have a new involved committee of people taking on roles to bring these ideas to fruition being led by the needs of the village. We will be shortly launching a new Facebook page and website where Westcott residents can monitor our progress and post suggestions, questions and comments. Dr Glenn Wylie, Chairman & Trustee

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Good Friday WalkOn Friday 30 March about 20 stalwart members defied the persistent rain and set off from Friday Street Car Park. We stumbled our way uphill and down through the mud to Broadmoor village where we saw a former Reading Room and the old workhouse. Underfoot conditions improved on the way to the site of a branch of the Royal Observatory (more on this in our January 2019 Talk) and then on to Abinger Bottom passing yet another former workhouse. Most of the hardy survivors were pleased to arrive at the Stephen Langton for warmth and refreshment.

The 8th June Talk by Prof Richard Selley on ‘The Birth, Life and Death of the River Mole’ will have to be reported in the July magazine as it misses the editorial deadline for June.On the 10th July at 2.30 pm we have booked the trip on the Wey & Arun Canal on their canal boat Wiggonholt for a tour of the restored

section of the canal for about 2 ½ hours including a stop for tea.

There are a few places left and people should contact John Clachan (Tel D- 887858) to get a ticket.The boat departs from the wharf beside the Onslow Arms pub in Loxwood on the B2133 (postcode RH14 ORD). Please arrive at least 15 mins before the trip to allow time to park and collect your boarding pass from the Canal Centre. The seats are not padded so you may like to bring a small cushion.

There is no meeting in August but looking ahead , the AGM will be on 11th Sept with a Talk by Liz Rawlings on E.M.Forster, who lived nearby.

WESTCOTT HISTORY GROUP

Holy Trinity, Westcott Wednesday 11th July

at 7.30 p.m.

The Chetwynd Consort is an ensemble led by former Choral Scholars of King’s College Cambridge. Their music ranges over 400 years, in a style similar to that of The King’s Men.

Tickets £15 from Margaret Stephen 07590 652490 [email protected]

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May was scheduled to have been a busy month for the Village Association. On the 8th I invited the Chairpersons of the Hut, the Reading Room, the Sports Club, the Church, and both our County and District Councillors to a meeting to discuss how we work better together to deliver joined up solutions to our village needs; I will report back on this next month. On 15th we were due to hold the Village Open Meeting to hear the District Council’s initial thoughts on “modest Developments in Larger Rural Villages”, but this was shelved due to the changes in the political make-up of the District Council following the Local Council elections on 3rd May, and the uncertainty of how the present outline development plan thinking would be progressed.

If and when things become clearer, then we will rearrange the meeting at a future date. Finally, we held our

regular Village Association meeting on 23rd.Few people seem to know what the Village Association actually does and who its members are so this month I will try to explain both these things in more detail. A lot of information is held on the WVA web site and I would recommend that you make reading what is posted there a regular part of your village information search. Jo Astor and Simon Day are in the process of updating the website platform with the assistance of another local resident, Andrew Copeland, and looking at both the content and how we keep it up-to-date and relevant to residents of the village. The new site will be going live this summer.

Our constitution sets out our primary aims and objectives, which, broadly summarised, are:-•To work to preserve and enhance the charm and rural character of the village and ward to the benefit of the residents and wider public•To stimulate interest in, and care for, our physical and aesthetic environment ensuring that we protect the features of our green belt and AONB land, public rights of way, and historic sites, by monitoring changes particularly planning applications and other forms of development.

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•To encourage and support local organisations and individuals working for the good of residents, and specifically those which collect, preserve and care for items and records of local historical and archaeological interest.

We do this through the holding of regular meetings which are held (for the time being at least) in St John’s chapel meeting room, working through an agenda, and which very often include external guests who have either been invited or who have requested the opportunity to raise a concern or issue with us. Minutes are always taken and will be published on the new website. There is an Annual General Meeting once a year for members of the WVA and other residents, where any subject can be raised and debated.

Members of the Committee take responsibility for specific aspects of the work we do and it is important that everyone knows who they are. They are there for you to raise concerns with, to discuss things with, and to seek their help in getting things done in the village.

Planning Applications are monitored by Tim Way (WVA Chairman) and Tim Gowing (also WVA General Secretary)

Membership and Subscriptions are overseen by Alistair Meldrum, Edwina Gordon and Edwin Harland

Countryside matters (including footpaths, bridle paths, hedgerows and green spaces) are monitored by Ted Wilde Highways (which covers roads, signage, pot-holes and repair work) are monitored and overseen by Andrew Lewis and Howard Walden Other members of the committee are David Andrews who is the Treasurer, James Friend (District Councillor) and Hazel Watson (County Councillor) who are our ex-officio members, and Sandra Ede who works to support the committee in a general capacity. The WVA Trustees are Tim Gowing, Alistair Meldrum and James Friend. The accounts are independently examined by Hugh Parry.

These are all local residents (except Hazel who lives in Dorking), so I urge you, if you don’t know who they are, to find out and get to know them. I am very conscious that none of us is elected to these roles (as we would be if we had a Parish Council) but we do this out of an altruistic desire to be involved in what goes on in the village in which we live. Over the coming months therefore I will be

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working with the committee to find ways to ensure that the WVA is more accessible, open, and involving of you the residents of the ward. This year will see changes on the committee as people who have served the WVA for a long time look to step down. It means that I continue to seek new people, particularly covering planning and countryside matters, who want to get involved and carry on the work which the association has been doing for the last 40 years.

I would urge you all:Firstly, to become members by

paying a voluntary annual subscription (preferably by bank standing order) - the minimum being £5 but which can be more depending on your personal circumstances. This generates the income which we will use to further the work of the Association.

And secondly, to seriously consider putting yourself forward as a member of the WVA Committee. It can be very rewarding knowing that you are part of doing your bit to make the village and the wider community a great place to live and work.

Tim Way

WESTCOTT VILLAGE ASSOCIATION NEWS (cont.)

Christian Aid Week 13th – 19th May 2018

A big thank you to all those who took part in Christian Aid Week last month. Thank you to the Volunteer Collectors who delivered the red envelopes to homes in Westcott and then collected them. Thank you to all those who gave money to help support the world’s poorest communities.

Christian Aid works to end poverty worldwide and has more than 70 years experience. Christian Aid works with people of all faiths and none. When disaster hits Christian Aid gets people the help they need straight away. Christian Aid tackles the root causes of poverty and helps people to thrive.

The total amount collected by Westcott will be available in July/August.

Thank you.

Helen Chappell.

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F@SH is the name of the PTA for Surrey Hills School based in Westcott and Abinger Common and all parents with children at the school automatically become members. F@SH is also a registered charity which raises money to directly support our local children’s school.

We organise fundraising events and activities, which not only help to raise vital funds to support the school and advance the extra-curricular,

cultual and social development of our children. It is also a great opportunity for the parents, teachers and friends of the school to get to know each other and raise funds, all for a good cause!

The most recent event F@SH organised for Surrey Hills School alongside Peaslake School was “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic” held on bank

holiday Monday 7th May. What a glorious day we had in the sunshine

with plenty of activities and fun stalls for the huge turnout of people who came to join in with the fun. If you didn’t get to enjoy it this year, look out for our dates for next year!

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Roads and TrafficThe District Council team is continuing to pursue innovative solutions to the intolerable traffic queues from Westcott to Dorking.

It cannot be beyond the wit of man to design and implement a solution which can adapt to demands of modern life.

Clearly, it is much worse when there are roadworks, especially emergency ones, anywhere around the town centre. You may not be aware but the various utility companies are effectively statutory authorities in their own right when it comes to digging up roads and pavements. This is fairly obvious when you think about it, they can hardly wait for multiple permissions when there is a gas leak, for example. However, it does mean that such works can be uncoordinated and have unforeseen (or entirely predictable) consequences.

The cross-party group of county and district councillors working with officers

to identify solutions has unanimously impressed on them the root causes of what we think needs to be addressed and, equally, what we know as local residents simply won’t work.

The irony is that much of the nub of the problem is centred on Pump Corner and how long it waits on red for pedestrians to cross the road. So the more people shopping in Dorking, then the harder it gets to get into Dorking to go shopping – it’s almost a man-made limiting value on the success of the town. We all agree the current situation is not tenable.

Roads and PotholesThe other road headache is the huge number of potholes that need to be filled following the winter ravages. This year saw twice as many potholes forming and reported than an average year.

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Surrey County Council decided to postpone some of their non-essential work to divert resources to identify and repair some of the potholed roads.

Also their Highways Contractor, Kier, drafted in additional resource so that where they would normally have about 8-12 crews out repairing the network there were instead 25 crews working in Surrey.

Surrey tell me that the important thing to remember is that they cannot start to repair pot holes until they know about them. So please don’t assume that someone else has reported a pothole. With over 3,000 miles of network to monitor any help is gratefully received, so when it is safe to so please report any defects to you see.

A Geology LessonMany local residents clearly share the concerns from the potential drilling for oil in and around Leith Hill.

In support of the “Don’t Drill the Hill” campaign David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Glasgow) gave a presentation in Dorking on the geophysics and hydrocarbon exploration at Leith Hill. It is really interesting to watch is now on available on YouTube and here is the link if you wish to see it:

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Ride London 2018Preparations are well underway for Ride London 2018. As usual again this year, the organising team have arranged for a regular shuttle bus to take Westcott residents into Dorking to rendezvous with vehicles that can be parked the night before if you need to get out and about away from the village during the day.

The village green attractions will be with us once again. If you have never been down in the morning or

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afternoon of the big day, do take the opportunity this year – I know some of even the most sceptical members of the village have been heard to say how much they have enjoyed the entertainment and atmosphere it all brings.

These Girls Can (and Did)It’s been a busy few weeks for the Westcott Brownies and Girl Guides.

Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who braved the unseasonal weather to help with the clearing of the verge of the cycle path back to somewhere near their original limits.

I think everyone who took part enjoyed themselves, despite the weather – thanks everyone.

Secondly, May saw the formal opening of the rebuilt Faurefold Girl Guide Camp site and building for Surrey East Guides. I cannot thank

everyone enough for this spectacular effort – the vision, the fundraising and the dedication has been

extraordinary. Margaret and team are all familiar faces in Westcott from their annual appearances at Ride London and WestFest – those bacon butties are hard to beat.

Faurefold is a place for FUN. It’s for girls to come together and to make Friends, to be United and to get close to our wonderful local Nature.


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A big thank youThe team behind the Westcott Village Magazine, and all the contributors every month, work tirelessly to pull the publication together, to get it to the printers and back out to your homes. From talking to fellow local residents, I know just how much it is valued when it lands on the doorstep.

I also know how much it is a source of local trade for businesses who advertise – many people tell me that they found so and so in the magazine.

This month, I need to say a massive thank you to Alison Hunter who has edited the magazine now for more years than I can remember.

Alison has a knack of cheering us up as we struggle for inspiration and for tolerance when we send things in the wrong format or in late. It remains to be seen if the new editor has the same patience – don’t ask me!

Thank you Alison!

Mystery TreesWell done to the many younger members of the village who correctly identified the snow covered tree from the school playing field in May’s magazine. It was a bit too obvious to use at any other time of the year and the snow set it in a very different context. This month you will need to

wander a little further afield to spot this one – Good luck!

James Friend


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WESTCOTT GARDENERS’ CLUB SUMMER SHOW

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Come to see or compete

Flowers, vegetables, plants, fruit, flower arrangement, cookery contest and children’s entries

All are welcome to exhibit.

If you haven’t got a show schedule pick one up from the Bakery

Entry of exhibits to the show is free, so just fill in the

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Entry forms should be posted into the special box, once

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As the show draws to a close, around 3.45pm, silver cups will go to the lucky prize winners including novices.

You could be a winner! COME AND ENJOY THIS SUPER VILLAGE EVENT WITH LOVELY HOMEMADE CAKES, TEA AND FRUIT SQUASH

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The Westcott Gardeners’ Club visited Pashley Manor on 30th April 2018.

April showers are to be expected, but our visit to Pashley Manor proved to be on perhaps the wettest day of the year with no break in the weather until we were almost back home. Nevertheless this did not dampen our spirits as it was such an interesting day with so much to see. As a plaque in the garden shop on the way back stated...... ‘No Rain - No Flowers’!

Fortunately the traffic was light on the M25 and we arrived at our destination in plenty of time to have coffee and cake in a marquee before a brief talk on the history of the house and gardens by Mrs Sellick, who along with her husband, are the current owners. The original house dates back to the 13C and was located on an island in the lake. The current imposing Tudor timber framed house was built in the 1550’s and enlarged at the back in 1720 in the Queen Anne style.Mr & Mrs Sellick held their first tulip festival a few years ago, displaying paintings, ceramics and furniture with tulip designs, and also planting about

2000 bulbs. This has progressively increased to this year’s most impressive planting of 42,000 bulbs donated by Blooms. After flowering the bulbs are all lifted and donated to charities, and the remainder fed to their sheep as the bulbs have to be replaced each year. We saw a wonderful display of over 100 varieties of cut tulips under cover with the opportunity to order bulbs for delivery in the autumn. Most of us braved the weather and strolled through the 11 acres of beautiful gardens with their colour themed areas, and a bluebell wood. On our return journey we stopped at Northcutts Garden Centre at Tunbridge for afternoon tea and a chance to look round the shop (more like a department store with a wide range of interesting things to see and buy.)

Thank you Sue for organising this interesting and most enjoyable day. Text and photos by Jean and Tony Mickle

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Do you r e m e m b e r when this e m b l e m was widely seen across Britain, and

we were told to “Keep Britain Tidy”? I do, back in the ‘70’s when as a child my junior school instructed us all to put our rubbish in the bin.

What I didn’t know was the ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaign was launched in 1954, became a charity in the ‘60’s, had Abba, wDixon of Dock Green, the Queen, and, of course, the Wombles as supporters.

The charity is still going, still has the Wombles as supporters and is still campaigning to keep our country tidy, though we don’t often see enough evidence of that.

Unfortunately it seems that in and around Westcott there is a sometimes a lack of desire to follow the Wombles’ habit. I’m not alone in picking up the odd discarded can or plastic bag to put into the bin, but not everyone seems as keen to see our roads, paths and open spaces clean and tidy.

Speaking to a neighbour last week they told me how they had witnessed a visitor dropping their litter onto the footpath and had subsequently asked the person to put their rubbish in the bin. Apparently they were subjected to a short tirade of abuse before the person cycled away briskly along the footpath.

Now this is not a problem that we can blame solely on visitors as I regularly walk up the footpath between Springfield Road and the shops seeing sweet-wrappers, drink cans, crisp bags and cigarette-packet wrappers strewn amongst the grass and shrubbery, and this is not a path generally frequented by visitors to the area.

Do you like to see our hedges littered with rubbish? I hope you don’t. We, as a village, need to address this problem. We have our supermarkets now promising to reduce plastic waste so the least we can do is remind ourselves, and our children, not to drop litter but to keep our countryside clean. Let us all try to change our bad habits and use the bin. Let’s show our children how to keep Westcott Wonderful.

Nick Jordan-Moss

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BRIGITTE TRUSTVolunteers needed – supporting people facing life-threatening illness

Sadly most of us are touched by cancer – it can be a family member, a friend or business colleague and the news can be devastating. The Brigitte Trust offers a free volunteer service of emotional support and practical help in the home when cancer, Motor Neurone Disease or other life-threatening illness has been diagnosed. Practical issues like driving, shopping and getting to hospital for treatment can sometimes be hard to manage, and our volunteers, who are fully DBS checked, can help. Complementing the work of the medical teams the Trust offers a volunteer who will visit weekly and build up a relationship with patient and carer, offering company and time to listen.

Our next free volunteer taster sessions take place in June and July for September training and we are particularly keen to reach out local volunteers. Please call Ingrid Walker on 01306 881816 for more information, or visit our website: www.brigittetrust.org

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“On Saturday 16th June 2018 at 7:00 pm, Dorking Choral Society presents its Summer Concert at St Paul’s Church, Dorking RH4 2HT, entitled A Fancy of Folk and Jazz. Tickets £12 at the door or from Ron on 07847 477052. The programme includes Chilcott’s A Little Jazz Mass, with a professional jazz trio, Vaughan William’s Five English Folk Songs along with other jazz and folk settings. For a relaxed atmosphere, we will be setting out the audience area with tables and chairs in a café style and the audience are invited to bring a picnic and drinks (or not if they prefer). Given the vagaries of the English weather, the concert will be indoors! St Paul’s has an open and airy interior.”

Ex local girl Liz Harcombe, who grew up in Westcott, and has retained a life long passion for horses, has recently won a national title in the sport of carriage driving trials. In the early 1980’s she looked after horses for Mary

Matthews in Wotton and ended up at the Royal Mews at Windsor working for HRH the Duke of Edinburgh with his carriage driving team.

25 years later at the tender age of 49 and as a schoolteacher settled in Suffolk, she achieved her dream of competing a tandem of ponies at the National Indoor Driving trials championships and pulled off a victory. All the sweeter as it was with rescued ponies previously written off!

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It’s not a title that occurs in everyday conversation, unless you are in a cowboy film, where ‘Hi Sheriff’ is a perfectly ordinary greeting.

But in our village, we can soon be saying ‘Hi Sheriff’ to the High Sheriff of Surrey, because he lives in Westcott and he’s been part of our community for over twenty years.

So who is he, and what is it? He is Jim Glover, who lives in Balchins Lane with his wife Cath, and it is the oldest civil position, appointed in each county annually by the Queen.It dates from Saxon times, and the Normans continued the idea of what was then called a Shire Reeve, who was responsible for law and order in the county, and the raising of taxes. So it was a great job to get in a rich county (remember the Sheriff of Nottingham), but could bankrupt a man landed with the job in a poor county, where he would struggle to collect the taxes demanded by the Exchequer.

The responsibility and power of the County Sheriffs is referred to in many of the clauses of The Magna Carta (1215) and by then it had become an important part of the administration of England.

Since the 1800s we have had several High Sheriffs in the local area: 1845

Richard Fuller, of Rookery; 1937 Sir John Fraser, Dorking; 1971 Philip Henman, Dorking; 1982 John Evelyn, Wotton; more recently in 2006 Sir Adrian White, Denbies; and Jim will start his year at a Ceremony of Installation as the 797th High Sherriff of the County at Guildford Cathedral on 24th April.

The role, of course, has changed. It’s now largely ceremonial, but still concerned with law and order, so Jim will have to look after any High Court Judge who is hearing a case in the county, and he will sit with His Honour Judge Robert Fraser, Recorder at Guildford Crown Court. The High Sheriff also organises the annual church service for the judiciary held each October in Holy Trinity Church, Guildford.

Much more importantly, however, the position is about focusing power and attention on charitable causes. The Sheriff has no call on the public purse, but he does have the power

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to convene and connect people within the county in the direction of a specific cause. Jim says “I can’t force people to do what I want, but I can direct them to come together to discuss a particular issue.”

The topic that is really important to him is the permanent exclusion of young children from school. In visits to Young Offenders Institutions and prisons, it is obvious that there is a significant correlation between young men and women in custody and exclusion from school. “Exclusion is a powerful factor in young people losing their way and ending up in the judicial system” he says. “Children can be excluded as young as eight or nine, sent to Pupil Referral Units, and then possibly end up being home taught, and dropping out of the education system completely. They fall out of the checks and balances of the social entities of home and school and more importantly, they miss out on the education and inspiration that they get in school.”

Why is this so important to him? Jim says, “Cath and I both came from families with no assets, we had free education from early school to university, where we met, and it changed our lives beyond recognition. And school is at the heart of that inspiration. I visited Surrey Hills School a couple of weeks

ago, and watching those teachers with the children I saw again the moments when education turns to excitement, when connections are made and when children become caught up in what they are learning. We are so lucky to have such a great school on our doorstep, and I was really impressed by the eagerness and friendliness of the children and the patience of the teachers on my unnanounced visit, interrupting their lessons.”

Jim has a history of involvement in education. Having spent a lifetime of work in the retail industry, MD of Benskins, Woolworths and Superdrug among others, Jim has also acted as Pro-Chancellor of Birmingham University, Chair of Grafham Grange Educational Trust near Bramley, specializing in pupils with special educational needs, and is now Chair of Council at Surrey University.

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“And that’s why I’m so keen on this project” he said. “if we can make a difference to children, help them stay within the system, help the system adapt to their needs, then perhaps we can stop this terrible path from exclusion towards prison. Of course” he said, “it doesn’t happen to everyone. Sometimes a brief exclusion or suspension is enough to break the pattern of difficult behaviour, but when that doesn’t work, and children are permanently excluded, then it’s really hard to get those kids a proper education.”

What could be the options for change? “Well, for example” he explained, ‘a previous High Sheriff strongly supported the introduction of a process called “restorative justice” for young adults about to go to prison, where families, social services, probation services and others get together to see if there are any other avenues to explore before committing

the young person into custody. And if they can find another way, then that is recommended to the sentencing judge. We know that system works, we know it has kept young people out of prison, and the consequent difficulty of getting work. We know it can help them take their place in a working world and become valuable members of society.

“Perhaps a similar system could work before a child is excluded, where the decision is not made until every option is exhausted. I am well aware that permanent exclusion is always the last resort of a school, but by getting other services involved as well, perhaps more options and avenues will open up.”

So it appears that being High Sheriff of Surrey isn’t just about going to posh events in rockstar robes, but a real opportunity to help make changes for good in our county. And it seems to me, that if anyone can do it, it will be Jim.

We hope to have some updates from him in the magazine during his year in office.

Pictures by Andy Newbold

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role in providing a safe home for refugees. The theme of Refugee Week is "Different Pasts, Shared Futures". An engaging and interactive art display will include output from workshops run by local art psychotherapist, Sophia Cowx, in collaboration with the Dorking Refugee Support Group, along the lines "There's no place like home". Viewers will be invited to add their own creative responses to the display. There will also be a short film and a leaflet giving the historical background to Dorking’s connections with refugees through the ages.

Another chance to participate too, Saturday 23rd June will see Dorking's first Eye-to-Eye Experiment take place! Based on the success of a worldwide street campaign run during the 2017 UN International Week of Peace, passers-by and visitors to the Museum will be invited to find out "Where has the Human Connection Gone?", recognising our own connections to the feeling "There is no Place Like

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Family Activity – ‘Celebrate Dorking’: Come and enjoy a fun and creative family activity during the May half term holiday making some beautiful bunting to help Celebrate Dorking! This ties in with the bright and colourful quilt the Museum currently has on display from the Dorking Nursery School and Children’s Centre, their

#WeAreDorking “Community Quilt”. The bunting you make will reflect what you love about Dorking and will hang in the Museum along with the quilt. Drop in any time between 10.30 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. on Thursday 31st May or Friday 1st June. Families of all ages welcome. Normal admission rates apply.

Celebrating Refugee Week: In honour of Refugee Week held across museums and cultural spaces nationwide, between 21st and 23rd June the Museum will be hosting a special display highlighting Dorking's

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Home" in thinking about what makes Dorking the haven that it is.

‘Dorking 1918’: Our summer exhibition, the last in the Museum’s five-year WW1 centenary project, focuses on the end of the war. It looks at how the news was received and how it was celebrated, how the dead were commemorated, and the long-term impact of the war on the community and on individual lives.

The digital screen scrolls through biographies of nearly 1000 local casualties from Dorking and the villages. Biography panels outside the Museum feature individuals who experienced or did something significant in or following 1918, including Fred and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Freddie Seaton, who returned from the war with shell-shock and lived in his own make-believe world of trenches and home-made cannons on Meadowbank.

A short film telling the story of local suffrage campaigners the Pethick-Lawrences, filmed in Dorking, Holmwood and Leith Hill, is also available to view in the Museum to mark the centenary of the vote for women. Kathy Atherton’s book on the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills is also available.

Walks and tours: Time for a stroll in the sunshine with the Museum’s guided walks and tours? Town centre walks show often unexpected sights of the town’s rich heritage or of both present and ‘long lost’ town centre pubs. On the edges of the town, take the Deepdene Trail through the newly rejuvenated and historic Deepdene Estate, including exclusive entry to the grade II* listed Hope family mausoleum. Or take a trip under the streets of Dorking to explore the famous 17th century South Street Caves.

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DORKING MUSEUM (cont.)All walks and tours are open for group bookings at a time to suit you, and there are regular Open Days for individual bookings. In June, we offer:

- Saturday 16th June, Town Centre Pub Walk, 6pm from outside the Halifax on High Street;- Sunday 17th June, The Deepdene Trail, 2pm from the Trail entrance;- Saturday 30th June, South Street Caves Tours, 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, from the Caves entrance opposite Waitrose in South Street.

Book soon because some of these

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2nd at 12.00, lunchtime recital at St Martin’s church, free, 01306 8842292nd at 6.00, English song at Leith Hill Place, £28, 0344 249 18955th 12th 19th 26th at 8.30, Watermill Jazz at Betchworth Park golf club, £19-20, 07415 8157848th at 7.30, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Dorking Halls, £15.50-30.50, 01306 8817179th at 3.00, Ladybirds choir at United Reformed Church Hall, £7.50, 01737 8436629th at 7.30, Brockham Choral Society at St Paul’s church, £12, 01306 88182110th at 4.00, ballet screening at Dorking Halls, £17.50, 01306 88171712th at 7.15, ballet screening at Dorking Halls, £18, 01306 88171716th at 6.00, songs by Vaughan Williams at Leith Hill Place, £12.50, 0344 249 189516th at 7.00, Dorking Choral Society at St Paul’s church, £12, 07847 47705218th at 1.30 & 7.30, ballet screening at Dorking Halls, £18, 01306 88171721st at 6.30, opera screening at Dorking Halls, £18.50, 01306 88171723rd at 7.30, Dorking Philharmonia at St Martin’s church, £12, 01306 73064030th, Capel Choral Society at Capel Memorial Hall

sell out quickly. Or get together a group through your organisation or just a group of relatives and friends for guided walks, a Caves tour or a Museum tour. Please see the website for details and advance booking, and for other dates.

The Museum is at 62 West Street, Dorking RH4 1BS. Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10am-4pm. Visit www.dorkingmuseum.org.uk. Enquiries to [email protected] or phone 01306 876591.

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This is a good month for choral music and songs. Dorking Choral Society will be holding its summer concert, entitled A Fancy of Folk & Jazz. The choir will be singing folk songs by Vaughan Williams, Cecilia McDowall and others, together with Bob Chilcott’s A Little Jazz Mass and a selection of classic jazz songs. Brockham Choral Society invites you to Tea at the Ritz, where you can bring a picnic and be entertained with songs ranging from 1914 to the sixties.

Capel Choral Society’s concert is entitled Some Enchanted Evening, and it will feature a selection of music from the stage and church, plus the traditional buffet supper. The Ladybirds choir, conducted by Helena Twentyman, presents a summer concert entitled A Beautiful Day. There will be music from Oklahoma! and from Andrew Lloyd Webber, plus other favourite songs. This year’s concert is supporting Dorking Minds, a local charity which helps people with mental health issues.

Leith Hill Place - is the venue for two song recitals. The first focuses on English song at the time of the first world war, including music by William Denis Browne who was killed in the Gallipoli campaign. The second includes songs by Vaughan Williams and his friends.

The Dorking Philharmonia has a programme of gorgeous late-romantic music: Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, Chausson’s Poème for violin and orchestra, and Tchaikovsky’s sixth symphony, the Pathétique. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will also be playing in Dorking – their programme begins with Brahms’ Tragic overture, followed by Mendelssohn’s tuneful violin concerto (with soloist Jack Liebeck), and finishes with Dvořák’s dark and powerful seventh symphony.

The lunchtime recital at St Martin’s will be given by pianist Constance Leung. Born in Hong Kong, but now settled in the UK, Constance received the award for ‘Most Promising Pianist’ at the Godalming Music Festival.

This month’s performers for Watermill Jazz are: the Adrian Cox quartet, performing ‘Profoundly Blue’, a tribute to clarinettist Edmond Hall (5th), Alan Barnes and David Newton (12th), Dinosaur (19th), and Peter Horsfall (26th).

There is one opera screening at the Dorking Halls, a live relay from Glyndebourne of Puccini’s tragic story Madame Butterfly. There are also two ballets: Coppelia live from the Bolshoi in Moscow (10th), and Swan Lake from the Royal Opera House (live on 12th, repeated twice on 18th).

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Students of The Priory CofE School, Dorkinginvite you to attend their first open lecture on Friday 22 June

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How did the business start? Nicky told me that she was trained as a milliner in London and worked in the hat industry for over ten years when she decided to start her own business, making special event hats for weddings, or Ascot, or other big occasions.Then one day a dear friend, a gynae-oncology surgeon who started GRACE (the Guildford-based gynaecological cancer charity) needed volunteers and fundraising ideas. He asked her to run a fashion show, invite back some ‘mothers of the brides’ to talk about their special hats, talk about hat making and help raise funds for the charity. So she did. And afterwards he said to her “Why don’t you design hats for women who really need them?” A simple question which changed her life.

‘I had no idea’ she said ‘what a need there was. So I did my research, went to the Royal Surrey Fountain Centre, talked to women, and medical people there, and sat in on some of the ‘Look Good Feel Better’ sessions that help

SUBURBAN TURBAN - Interview with Nicky Smetham by Andrea Gabb

This month, our focus is on an unusual business. It’s called Suburban Turban, and Nicky Smetham and her team make very special hats. They are designed for women who have either complete, or partial hair loss, and want to cover their heads.

As we sat down in the Suburban Turban studio, in the courtyard behind the Westcott Bakery and Corefit Physio, we were surrounded by hats of all shapes, bolts of fabrics in beautiful colours, and hundreds of packages of turbans all ready to be sent out. ‘You look really busy.’ I said. ‘Yes,’ responded Nicky, ‘we are busy designing our Autumn/Winter collection, and at the same time, the summer hats are flying out of the door’. ‘Isn’t that the same as a fashion house schedule?’ I asked. ‘Well, that’s what we are.’ she said. ‘We design hats for women with hair loss, due to chemotherapy or other disease, but these women want fashion, they don’t want to be defined by their illness, and they want to look up to date and have hats that have a new look for

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women when they are in treatment for cancer.’ Her research, through Government White Papers and other sources, led her to the frightening fact that, at that time, one in nine women were likely to contract breast cancer. Ten years later, today, that figure is changing to one in four, because of widespread early detection screening. The good news is that because of that

screening, the recovery rates have altered enormously too, but it does mean many women suffer hair loss because of treatment.

‘It’s not only cancer treatment that causes hair loss’ Nicky reminded me. ‘Sometimes women get Alopecia, bald patches across the scalp that come and go, or there’s receding and thinning of the hair post-menopause, which is not uncommon. So the hats work for them too. Women really don’t want a public display of what is usually a private issue, which means fashion hats are a great disguise. They use them as a sort of armour, so they can face the world with confidence and privacy.’

‘So where is the business going?’ I asked. ‘Ever upwards, I hope. We are

BUSINESS OF THE MONTH (cont.)testing the boundaries!’ she said. ‘We are now doing more specialist hats, for brides, and mothers of the bride, where a pretty turban can be swathed in specially dyed synamay straw of the same colour, and they look amazing! And we are branching into hats for particular uses. One customer asked us to design her a non-slip gym hat to stay on during exercise, easily done with some silicon elastic. And we have turbans with scarves attached so you can swirl and knot the material to suit the shape of your face. You’d be amazed how many women come here and say “but hats don’t suit me”and then we try different shapes and styles, and there’s always one which looks great. It’s such a confidence boost, and it’s lovely for us when they leave with a smile.’

So hats for work, for the school run, for date-night dinners, for the mature woman, and more and more for the younger age group. Here’s a business right in the heart of the village where people facing ‘different’, can be helped to feel ‘normal’.

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THE QUICK RESPONSE MEMORIAL WOODLAND

Reference to ‘the past’ is usually an imprecise allusion to times gone by, but today we can be much more specific. It was on the 1st June 1943, seventy five years ago, that the world learned that Leslie Howard, a name known throughout the world of film and theatre, had died when the civilian aeroplane he was travelling in was shot down by the German Luftwaffe over the Bay of Biscay. It is an intriguing story (recounted as ‘The Assassination of Pimpernel Smith’ by the Westcott Local History Group) but with local interest because Leslie lived at Stowe Maries in Balchins Lane.

Leslie, pictured here as Ashley Wilkes in ‘Gone with the Wind’, was a well-known figure in the village. He trained his polo ponies on the paddock opposite his home; his son, Ronald, also a film star, regularly turned out for the Crown’s cricket team, and his daughter, Doodie, was instrumental in attracting visiting American servicemen to the village, much to the benefit of the other local hostelries.

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The Quick Response Memorial Woodland will be holding their 4th Anniversary and Reunion at the woodland in Pasturewood Road, Holmbury St Mary RH5 6LG on Sunday 10th June commencing at 12 noon with The Queen’s Regimental Walkers arriving at 12.15 having walked from Dover to raise funds for the Charity. There will be a BBQ, tombola, raffle, drinks and merchandise for sale. The 1st Cinque Ports Corp of Drums will entertain and there will be a Commemoration Service for two ex-servicemen and a tree planting by their families. A shuttle service is available to and from the Memorial Woodland and Bulmer Farm where the owners kindly allow parking in the paddock – weather permitting.

This is always a very popular event so come early, enjoy the day and help to support our ex-servicemen in times of need. The Trustees and members of The Memorial Woodland look forward to seeing you. Paul Cooling, Chairman, QRMW

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WESTCOTT WOMEN’S GROUP

Having had no speaker for the merry month of May, we celebrated the Royal Wedding with an afternoon of croquet and other garden games in Angela Deloford’s lovely garden. In case anyone missed this particular date, it was May 19th! The wedding service was at 12 noon, and our celebrations were from 1.30pm. A late buffet lunch was provided, together with a glass of wine, all for a mere £10pp. An opportunity to enjoy the afternoon with friends and partners/husbands and raise funds for the charities that we support.

Back to St John’s Chapel for our usual 7.30 pm meeting on June 6th when we will be welcoming Claire Tuckett from MND (Motor Neurone Disease) a Charity that is currently giving the son of my lifelong friend a great deal of support as he suffers with this terrible disease.

That brings us to the final event of the year, one that has become very popular in the village, our annual Pork roast and BBQ on July 28th. This year we will be holding it at the village Sports club, from 12.30pm. Tickets £15 pp, all are welcome to join us, tickets from Jacki Moss, 01306 881481, or email: [email protected] do not need to be “member” to come along, all are welcome.

You do not have to be a member to come to our meetings, so why not give us a try and meet other residents of Westcott.

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Wendy Saunders from Friends of Dorking, who organise the Easter Egg Hunt each year, said they had been overwhelmed with the response to this year’s competition, both in terms of the number of entries received and also the support from local businesses, adding, “We really didn’t expect so many people to scour the whole town tracking down every single character, but it just goes to show not only how many intrepid explorers we have around the town."

The Friends of Dorking would also like to thank The Guerrilla Knitters, together with the residents of The Grange in Bookham, who also have a gift shop in Lyons Court in Dorking, for very kindly knitting the various characters hidden around the town.

The Friends of Dorking are a group of local business and community-minded people who organise events and activities around Dorking throughout the year, including the town's Christmas Lights and Summer Hanging Baskets. For further information about the Friends of Dorking and how you can help them brighten up the town, please visit www.friendsofdorking.org, email [email protected] or follow them on Twitter (@DorkingFriends) or Facebook (/FriendsofDorking).

Congratulations to Freddie Morgan, Sophie Ashton, Ava Reynolds, Rohan Reynolds, Emma Spear, Charlie Woodman and Amélie Howe, the winners of this year’s Friends of Dorking ‘Dorkers Easter Egg Hunt’ held around the town during the recent school

Easter holidays. Throughout the holiday period, children and families were encouraged to visit over 130 shops and businesses throughout the town, all of which were displaying a knitted Easter character within their window. Entrants were challenged to find as many characters as they could. Almost 200 entry forms were received, including entries from as far afield as Cardiff, Rugby and Nottingham, with over half of the entrants finding all 133 characters hidden around the town!

The winners were presented with special certificates by Dorkers, the Friends of Dorking mascot, at a prize-giving ceremony at S C Fuller in South Street on Saturday 5th May, and each received

(L to R) Emma Spear, Freddie Morgan and Amélie Howe re-ceiving their Easter Egg Hunt certificates from Dorkers, the Friends of Dorking mascot)

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If you are over 55 and live in the Mole Valley area, you can use Age Concern’s free computer courses based in either Dorking or Leatherhead.

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In every capital city there must be a special museum or gallery, slightly off the beaten track, which people discover, fall in love with and visit time and time again. In New York, there’s the Frick Collection, in Paris the Musee Jacqmart-Andre, and in London there’s the Wallace. Tucked behind Selfridges, and like both the Frick and the Jacqmart-Andre, housed in a beautiful mansion in the middle of the city.

The Wallace Collection was put together in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the son of the 4th Marquess. It was bequeathed to the British nation by Sir Richard’s widow, Lady Wallace, in 1897.

Our Arts Society visited this extraordinary collection of paintings, ceramics and armour last month, as part of our programme of visits, tours and lectures. We had a guided tour of the many galleries, saw lots of famous paintings, and realised why Fragonard’s famous painting of the girl on the swing was considered so naughty at the time it was painted. Where is the young swain looking, as the pretty girl kicks out her leg and flings off her shoe in great abandon?

After a tasty lunch in the beautiful conservatory, we headed off in our coach to Apsley House and the Wellington Arch. Apsley House is still the London home of the Dukes of Wellington, and was bought by the Iron Duke in 1817 after his successful battle at Waterloo and as he started his political career. Known as Number One London, it was originally designed by Robert Adam and is a celebration of the Regency style.

It was fascinating to stand in the dining room, with a long table covered in the most extraordinary Portuguese silver-gilt centrepiece which runs the whole length of the table. You couldn’t possibly talk to the person sitting on the other side, but then you would

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probably be too busy looking at the silver. The 1st Duke collected paintings, china and silver and has two statues by Canova in the house, one is a huge representation of Napoleon (who by this time was on St Helena). It must have given him a great sense of satisfaction.

Our day ended with a visit to the Wellington Arch, just across the road at Hyde Park Corner. We went up to the balcony under the Quadriga (the four horsed chariot atop the arch) and were able to look down Constitution Hill, over into Hyde Park, and into Buckingham Palace Gardens. Our day was made when we saw the present Duke of Wellington, stride, papers in hand, through the Wellington Arch on the way to somewhere. If only we’d been wearing our Wellington Boots, we’d have had a hat-trick.

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Revd. Haydon Wilcox is leading another pilgrimage/holiday to Iona, in Scotland from 26th July - 3rd August 2019. Contact him on 01252 621639 or my email: [email protected] for a brochure. Details of his other events and trips are available on request for The Holy Land, South Korea, Oberammergau and his retreats.

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ABINGER COOKERY SCHOOL 36ACQUIS Chartered accountants 64ALFA Chimney sweeps 34ANGIE ROBINSON Nail therapist 54ANTHONY WAKEFIELD Insurance 38 broker AUDLEY Travel specialists 50BECKY’s professional dog 64grooming BELMONT Preparatory school 24BRAMLEY HOUSE Residential home 22BRAY ESTATES Property consultants 56BRIAN BROWNING Upholsterer 24BULLIMORES Chartered 68accountants BURY HILL LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES 56 Topsoil and turf CANADA MARK exterior and 47internal painting CAREPRINT Digital printers 52CEDAR NURSERY 66COLIN CAMPBELL Electrician 34DAVID FORD Tree surgeons 56DAVID SEALL Fencing & 36landscaping DENBIES Wine Estate 20DMH STALLARD Solicitors 66DORKING BUTCHERY 16DORKING DECORATORS 46DORKING DOMESTIC 58APPLICANCES DORKING PEST CONTROL SERVICES 60DORKING SERVICE CENTRE 80ECO LOGS Firewood 68EDE BROS Removals and storage 64EMWOOD Pest Control 64

FBR Abinger & Dorking taxis & 34private hire FORBES & SCHUSTER Dog walking 20& grooming FRED EVANS Brickwork, Patios, 24Fencing, Groundwork GB FENCING AND TREE SURGERY 60HART, SCALES AND HODGES 44Solicitors HILLS QUALITY COALS 38HOME COUNTIES CARERS 28Live in care HOMEWORKS Decorating 60J A JOINERY Traditional carpentry 68J CASEY Decorating & 48building services JAZ2 Sophisticated jazz 70JENNIFER MARGRAVE SOLICITORS 60 LLP JRC EVENTS Event catering 70JS PAINTING & BUILDING SERVICES 68JULIE WATTS FAMILY LAW 68KINGFISHER FARM & FLOWER SHOP 26LHP Groundwork & drainage 26engineers LILLIAN SPIBEY Photography 58LISA HALL Waxing therapist 54MANOR HOUSE SCHOOL 30MICHAEL BRAY Chartered surveyor 56MICHAEL LLOYD Building plans 48for home improvements MOVING ON Downsizing specialists 32NICK ROAKE Plumbing & Heating 58OVENU Oven cleaning 48PAS Financial and Mortgage 32Solutions

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PATRICK GARDNER Estate agents 18PREMIER GARDENS Garden 54maintenance PRINCE OF WALES Public house 36RB FENCING 28RUG CENTRE 72SEYMOURS Estate agents 22SHERLOCK FUNERAL SERVICE 38SHIERS DÉCOR Painting & 34decorating SOFT INTERIORS BY JOSEPHINE 26SOUTH EAST TREE SURGEONS 32

SPRING REACH NURSERY 62STONES Plumbing and 48property repairs SUBURBAN TURBAN Stylish 46headwear SWEPT AWAY Cleaning service 64TERESA WELLER HAIRART 52THYME FOR KITCHENS Interior 18furniture TONY WINCH Carpenter 24WESTCOTT GARAGE 46WITTLE BUBBA Girl’s outfits 22

RIVERBANK SURGERY - Dr. Tom F. GuilderWestcott Street, Westcott, Surrey RH4 3PA Tel: 875577 OPENING TIMES:

The surgery phones are diverted from 12.30-2.30. There is a mobile number which can be used if there is a medical emergency that cannot wait during the 2 hours . 07966 749372.In the event of any future power failures, should you need to contact the surgery in an emergency during normal surgery hours, then please call this mobile number 07966 749372.

Morning Evening Monday 8:00 - 12:30 1:30 - 6:30 Tuesday 8:00 - 12:30 1:30 - 6:30 Wednesday 8:00 - 12:30 Closed Thursday 8:00 - 12:30 1:30 - 6:30 Friday 8:00 - 12:30 1:30 - 6:30

Award Winning Local Garage

www.dorkingservice.co.uk 01306 747050

158 - 160 South Street DorkingSurreyRH4 2ES

Dorking Service Centre Ltd

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