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  • Cash for local projects – find out more
    3rd December 2021

    Find out how to get money for your project by joining our hour-long online workshop on crowdfunding. We will be hosting what we’re calling a ‘Project Creator workshop’ on Monday 6 December 12-1pm where anyone who lives in Guildford with

  • Vision Engineering and ZEISS collaborate to produce DeepFocus 1: an innovative and competitive Extended Depth of Focus (EDoF) microscope solution.
    2nd December 2021

    Vision Engineering, British leading designer and manufacturer of high quality non-contact measurement, digital 3D visualisation, and ergonomic inspection technologies, is partnering with ZEISS Industrial Microscopy to add an extended depth of focus inspection system to its range of microscopy systems

  • Give a young person facing homelessness in Guildford a Magical Christmas? Could you be someone’s Christmas Angel?
    2nd December 2021

    YMCA DownsLink Group, the South-East’s largest charity supporting vulnerable young people, has launched it’s 2021 Christmas fundraising appeal. It’s asking local people to become ‘Christmas Angels’ and help put a smile on the faces of young people without family to

  • Latest Updates From Surrey Chambers CEO – 2nd December 2021
    2nd December 2021

    As we approach the end of the year it is quite astonishing how resilient businesses have been throughout nearly two years of disruption. The atmosphere at the recent Surrey Business Awards, run in conjunction with our wonderful media partners, Platinum,

  • Amazon Filters strengthens staff volunteering opportunities with charity CMPP
    1st December 2021

    More than 200 team members at a Surrey-based industrial filter maker are to be offered hands-on community volunteering opportunities. It follows an agreement between manufacturer Amazon Filters and charity CMPP, the Community Matters Partnership Project. As a business partner of

  • IT & GENERAL SUPPORTS MOMENTUM CHARITY | CHRISTMAS CARDS WILL RAISE VITAL FUNDS
    1st December 2021

    For this year’s Christmas Card fundraiser, Momentum Charity asked the children that they support to send festive designs for the Christmas card. At IT and General, we are so proud that our daughter’s design, with Mo the Owl on top

  • Yvonne Arnaud Theatre announces Spring 2022 Season
    1st December 2021

    The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre is excited to announce its Spring 2022season, packed full of famous faces,top quality drama, and plenty of shows to beat those post-Christmas blues! Spring sees a return to producing for the theatre, with not one, but

  • Echoes of 1990s as wave of personal insolvencies likely in South East including Surrey warns accountancy expert
    1st December 2021

    2022 is likely to see a dramatic rise in personal bankruptcies and asset repossessions across the South East including Surrey as inflation and interest rates begin to climb and consumers struggle to absorb rising levels of debt, a leading insolvency

  • No one needs to go cold or hungry this winter
    30th November 2021

    Grants are now available to help vulnerable families and individuals in our borough who are struggling to afford food, clothing, fuel and other essentials. The Department of Work and Pensions new Housing Support Fund aims to ease short-term financial pressures this winter. £421million has been given to local authorities, £5.3million of which has

  • Supporting Afghan families – call for private landlords
    30th November 2021

    Spelthorne Borough Council is making an urgent appeal to landlords to help fulfil its pledge to house Afghans who have supported the UK in Afghanistan. Following a meeting of the Community Wellbeing and Housing Committee, we have pledged to resettle

  • First Surrey Hills Champions’ Tree Planting Day Supports and Celebrates Surrey Hills Sustainability
    30th November 2021

    The first Surrey Hills Champions’ Tree Planting Day, held on Sunday 21st November at Clandon Wood Nature Reserve in West Clandon, kick-started the planting of many new trees and hedgerows within the Surrey Hills, supported by the community themselves. The event,

  • With Christmas and Black Friday approaching, shocking new survey shows millions of shoppers have seen violence & abuse towards shopworkers
    30th November 2021

    Findings come as #ShopKind campaign urges kindness to shopworkers and consumers in stores this Christmas Retailers are urging shoppers to #ShopKind when they visit high streets this Christmas, as new polling reveals that over one third of shoppers (38%) have witnessed violence and abuse