Surrey Choices Growth Team Triumphs at Crest Business Awards 2023, Receiving the Community Impact Award
1st November 2023
Surrey Choices Growth Team Triumphs at Crest Business Awards 2023, Receiving the Community Impact Award Surrey Choices is proud to announce that its Growth Team of supported volunteers has been presented with the prestigious Community Impact Award at the
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Vibrant new comedy (very) loosely inspired by HG Wells’ genre-defining novel comes to Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
28th February 2024
Original Theatre presents Steven Canny and John Nicholson’s The Time Machine – A Comedy. Following the play’s previously announced forthcoming London première at Park Theatre, it will play at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford Tue 5 – Sat 9
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Major investment approved as £52.3 million grant awarded for new Weyside Urban Village
4th November 2019
The new Weyside Urban Village project took another significant step forward today as the Chancellor announced that the Council’s bid for £52.3 million from the Housing Infrastructure Fund to support the provision of 1500 new homes on the site has been successful.
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BCC Director General Awarded CBE
25th June 2025
Shevaun Haviland, BCC Director General, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). She was awarded her CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List for 2025 for services to business. Responding to the news of
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Players in a pickle raise funds for Princess Alice Hospice
11th March 2020
A charity match featuring an unusual, fun ball game has raised £1,000 for Princess Alice Hospice, in memory of a much-loved woman who was cared for by the Hospice before she died. The Annual Eliana Bungard Charity trophy was organised
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Hospice chaplain in the front line
9th April 2020
Princess Alice Hospice chaplain Steve Nolan is used to working alongside medical staff at the frontline of end of life care – but the coronavirus crisis is adding almost unbearable stress to their jobs. Steve has written a blog of
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What would Mrs Thatcher think? Rishi Sunak’s first Budget
13th March 2020
Economic commentary This year will be a big one for fiscal statements. Last year’s Budget, originally scheduled for early December, was postponed because of the General Election. This means that there will be two Budgets in 2020, as well as
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Resilient Businesses to Rebuild Margins as Economic Outlook Improves, Says RSM UK
27th March 2023
Middle market businesses are demonstrating remarkable resilience, investing in people and productivity to rebuild profit margins. RSM’s latest Middle Market Business Index (MMBI), the first economic index to focus solely on middle market businesses in the UK, has risen
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Young People Need Your Help More Than Ever: Sleep Anywhere But Your Bed to Help Prevent Youth Homelessness
22nd July 2020
(Photo Caption: Join YMCA DownsLink Group’s biggest fundraising event of the year, Sleep Easy, Friday 9th October 2020, to raise money to tackle the causes of youth homelessness.) Family breakdown is a leading cause of youth homelessness and pressure created
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Annual business awards open for entries
9th March 2020
The third Spelthorne Means Business Awards is officially open for entries after a launch party held at The Thameside Brewery on Tuesday 3 March. Guests at the launch included last year’s winners and this year’s sponsors who joined Spelthorne’s Deputy
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An Update on Carriage Surfacing Works from Surrey Highways
26th October 2018
Please find below details of our upcoming carriageway surfacing works in Guildford town centre which are all taking place at night, working hours from 20:00-06:00. Sydenham Road – 29 October for 1 night from junction of South Hill to Bright
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London Gatwick seeks good causes from Surrey
19th March 2024
Deserving local causes in Reigate and Banstead, Tandridge and Mole Valley can now apply for the second round of funding in the London Gatwick Foundation Fund. The fund has £33,000 available across the area of benefit in Surrey and it
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That’ll Be The Day returns to Woking!
23rd March 2023
Thursday 4th May – New Victoria Theatre, Woking First established in 1986, That’ll Be The Day is back on the road, and making a welcomed return to Woking this year with another incredible show packed full of world class
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Surrey Business Awards to Support Brooklands Innovation Academy at Upcoming Awards Night
19th August 2022
Brooklands Museum is pleased to announce that the Surrey Business Awards has chosen to support Brooklands Innovation Academy at its upcoming awards night on 3rd November 2022. Brooklands Innovation Academy inspires and supports young people to become the next generation
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Ukrainian Refugee Children Visit Nova Cinema
4th October 2022
Local Ukrainian refugee children experienced “fun and joy” as Nova Cinema welcomed them to a special screening of the new Minions film. In collaboration with Woking Borough Council, Nova Cinema was able to welcome children from the local charity The
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Wimbledon brings team spirit to Santa Fun Run
5th November 2019
There’s always plenty of action when AFC Wimbledon players get the ball. The squad took a fun break from training for their upcoming FA Cup First Round match this week, to kick off Princess Alice Hospice’s Santa Fun Run
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BCC comments on announcement of HS2 review
21st August 2019
Commenting on the government’s announcement of an independent review of HS2 by Douglas Oakervee, Dr Adam Marshall, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: “There is a strong economic case for delivering all phases of HS2. “For far too long businesses across the
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Freddie for take-off! Heathrow baggage handlers ‘escape from reality’ in celebration of Freddie Mercury’s birthday.
5th September 2018
British Airways and Heathrow baggage handlers ‘escape from reality’ in celebration of Queen legend Freddie Mercury’s birthday and Twentieth Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody, in cinemas October 24th Mercury worked as a Heathrow baggage handler before he joined Queen in 1970
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Guildford – Still the only town in Surrey with a Purple Flag!
19th September 2019
For the sixth year in a row Guildford town centre has been recognised by the Purple Flag assessors for providing evenings and nights out that are safe, vibrant and varied. It remains the only town in the county and one
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Experience Guildford to Host ‘A Safe Place’ Open Day – Saturday 17th June
17th May 2023
Come and learn more about the nationally recognised Safe Place scheme in Guildford and what the town is doing to support vulnerable people when they visit at an open day hosted by Experience Guildford at St Mary’s Church, Guildford
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