Runnymede Voice - Runnymede Borough Council

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Grassroots Project - Live Learn Grow
The Grassroots Project was offcially opened in September 2012 and
provides services that develop and support a happy, healthy, active and
independent lifestyle for children and adults with special needs. The
new site can be found at The Garden Centre, Vicarage Road, Egham.
The project is committed to offering care and leisure services to the
special needs community. The Grassroots project offers horticulture
facilities, activities and leisure services, combined with essential life
skills to promote an active future for children and adults alike.
Transport is provided by Runnymede Council to and from our
facility ensuring that our services are accessible to everyone in the
community. This can be booked by calling 01932 425050 or e-mail
communitytransport@runnymede.gov.uk
Man helping child take care
of plants The project addresses topics
such as the environment,
healthy living, diet, exercise and life skills, including
Sowing the seeds of an active future
cooking, banking, shopping and basic decision making in
life, more importantly it provides a platform for people to meet, socialise and build
lasting friendships.
For more information please contact The Grassroots Project on 01784 472005,
e-mail: info@grassrootsproject.co.uk or visit their website www.grassrootsproject.co.uk
New stop smoking service
Quit smoking clinic
A new approach to stop smoking is being taken by the
NHS, which has proved to be more effective than other
methods used in the past.
A weekly quit smoking clinic is available at Addlestone
Leisure Centre, School Lane, Addlestone. Get expert
NHS support plus nicotine products, Zyban or Champix on
Prescription! There are also one to one sessions available
at Addlestone Leisure Centre.
For more details and to book a place please call Eva
Walker on 07939 287723.
Your last chance to
receive free insulation
to your home
Hurry - this offer is only available until the end of 2012 – don’t
miss out!
Action Surrey in partnership with Runnymede Borough
Council and through a local installer is able to offer free
insulation (subject to survey and property size) for all
homeowners or private tenants (with the landlord’s
permission).
Contact Action Surrey today for a free no obligation survey
of your property on 0800 783 2503 or e-mail
info@actionsurrey.org or visit www.actionsurrey.org
Struggling to
clear your loft?
Action Surrey can also help
with this too. Your loft could
be cleared for free if you
are over the age of 70 or in
receipt of benefts.
your environment
Survey on recycling Recycling rates rocket for Runnymede
We would like to know how well we are doing Runnymede has had the largest recycling increase in
with our communications for the new recycling the country from 28.98% the previous year to 47.33%
service that started in October 2012. This will (a 63.31% improvement). This for the fnancial year
help us improve our future communications. 2011-12 and reported by DEFRA.
Please complete the online survey at www. A big thank you goes out to all residents for
surveymonkey.com/s/recyclingcampaign recycling so enthusiastically and reducing waste
It should only take 10 minutes. You will be which would otherwise have to be incinerated or put
automatically entered into a prize draw for
in landfll.
£20 Tesco vouchers. Please contact Kayo
Rippingham on 01932 425504 for a paper copy
Waste generated per person in Runnymede has
to be sent to you. Closing date for submissions
now reduced to the extent that it is amongst the
is Friday 18 January 2013.
lowest twelve areas in the country for rubbish.
Christmas and New Year household waste,
recycling and food waste collections
Please check your recycling, food waste and
rubbish collection calendar for changes to dates
for your collections over Christmas and New Year
as some of you will be having your collection
a few days earlier than your normal day.
• Those who would normally have household
waste and food waste collected on Tuesday 25
December will have a collection on Saturday 22
Christmas collections 2012 - 13
December.
• Those who would normally have household Calendar Date Revised Date
waste and food waste collected on Wednesday 25 December 22 December
26 December will have a collection on Saturday
26 December 29 December
29 December.
• Those who would normally have recycling and 1 January 5 January
food waste collected on Tuesday 1 January 2013
will have a collection on Saturday 5
Household rubbish and food waste
January 2013. Recycling and food waste
You can also check your collection days
No service
on on our our website website using using rCommunity.
rCommunity .
For more information about household waste, recycling and food waste collections please call
0800 052 0067, e-mail depot@runnymede.gov.uk or visit our website
www.runnymede.gov.uk/recycling
Rivers and Flooding
There is about 12% of the Borough that lies within the Environment Agency food plain, which equates
to some 7,000 properties at direct risk of fooding from rivers. Flooding can also be from other sources,
including surface water, groundwater, foul sewer or even burst
water mains.
If you live in food risk areas, we would advise you to sign up to the Environment Agency’s Floods
Warnings Direct for warnings about river fooding. We’d like to
encourage you to put in place measures to protect your property
from fooding, and to make and implement a food plan. We would
encourage people who live in large communities at risk of fooding to
revise their food plan regularly and practise it.
Runnymede Council has a rigorous maintenance programme for
maintaining the ordinary watercourses and part of the main rivers as
we are the owner of the land along the banks of these rivers. The works
carried out ranges from pipe winching and rubbish clearance to proper
ditching works.
If you are unsure whether your property is at risk of fooding or for any
The Thames at Chertsey
other fooding advice then you should contact the Environment Agency.
Alternatively please talk to one of our staff in the Engineering Services
Section on 01932 838383.
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Runnymede Voice visit www.runnymede.gov.uk issue no.17 Winter 2012/ Spring 2013