Thames Valley Housing is running a 12 week course for people looking to start their own business in the food industry. Participants will receive specialist training from Enterprise Cube and Community Chef, whilst also having the opportunity to learn about marketing, sales, funding, business plans, tax, and product development. Those taking part can also receive…

This year’s Woking Food and Drink Festival is set to be a star-studded event following the latest celebrity chef announcements. Topping the bill in the Tante Marie Culinary Theatre on Saturday 3 September will be Jane Devonshire, MasterChef Champion 2016, and Tom and Henry Herbert, aka ‘The Baker Brothers’. In May this year, after seven…

Local voluntary organisations invited to apply for grants – Woking Borough Council // Local voluntary organisations invited to apply for grants 12 July 2016 Local voluntary and community groups are being invited to apply for a grant for the next financial year (April 2017 – March 2018) from today (Tuesday 12 July 2016). The grants…

Woking Borough Council has reiterated its stance against hate crime, whilst reassuring foreign nationals that they are welcome in the Borough, in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union. Great Britain has welcomed migrants from many parts of the world for many years and enacted its first Race Relations Act in 1965,…

Sir Geoff Hurst attended the football festival this weekend. He awarded medals and trophies to the teams. He also signed many items including shirts and boots.   Sir Geoff presented Lee Swain,.GPR chairman for five years and who is stepping down at the end of the season, with a silver plate to thank him for…

Woking Borough Council have signed up to a scheme called airAlert, which is a service warning local residents who have respiratory problems of whenever the air pollution in Woking is going to be high. This is a free subscription service which individuals, who suffer from asthma, COPD, emphysema or other respiratory illnesses, can sign up…

A free outdoor cinema showing of the latest Star Wars film experience on Saturday 9 July 2016, in Woking Park, will round off a day of live music, sci-fi entertainment and space-age fun for families. With more than 50 per cent of the public vote, Star Wars was the people’s choice of film to be shown on…

Dear all,   This is a quick email to notify you of the drop-in-sessions that we are running at the Lighthouse, 8-10 High Street, Woking, on Weds 8th and 29th June, 10am-1pm.   These sessions are to provide advice to residents to understand their energy bills, and to show them how much they could save…

Surrey Fire and Rescue Service is reviewing its services and wants to know what matters to you. Proposed changes include working closer with other emergency services and reviewing how quickly they respond to 999 calls and automatic fire alarms. Residents can have their say by completing the online survey.

At long last Costa opens on Goldsworth Park today. It is to be found at the shopping centre just across from St Andrew’s church coffee shop and just down the lake path from Strollers’ OAP coffee shop. It’s not known if the petrol station sells coffee but if you want a hair do Charlie & Boo’s…