Send for..Volunteers
If you have some time available, there are several opportunities to help the community in Send.
Send Help take people to the Medical Centre and elsewhere; Volunteers provide assistance about once in three weeks. If you wish to volunteer, phone 01483 225255 between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon, Monday to Friday, or collect a leaflet from the Post Office or Medical centre.
If you are concerned about speeding traffic through Send, and wish to join a Community Speed Watch programme needing a minimum commitment of an hour a week, contact our Community Police Support Officer, on 01483 653096.
Ripley and Send Matters is delivered free to all households in Send four times a year. Delivery normally takes about ¾ hour per person. If you are prepared to help, Nick Brook, on 01483 222860 will be pleased to hear from you.
Send Parish Plan
The Questionnaire was issued to all households in May 2006. As a result,
we have lots of offers of help for village tidy up days, to look at organising
entry to the Village of the Year competition in 2008, and so on.
St John Ambulance are looking for volunteers to act as Neighbourhood First Responders. For further information, contact Steve Smith on 01483 211279.
Rotary Club
For details of the local Rotary Club, ring Arthur Andrews on 01483 223155 or Peter Heath on 01483 561477.
The annual charity fund raising event needs voluteers to help take santa round the local area.
Contact Robert A. Wilson, The Chairman of Rotary Community Service Committee
for more details:
15 Linden Way
Ripley
Surrey
GU23 6LN
T. 01483 222576
M. 07789 84 00 12
Send Family Link
A registered charity providing support and services for families visiting women in custody at HMP Send, with a particular focus on children with a mother in prison. Our aims are to reduce the emotional stress of visiting a loved one in prison and to help families maintain relationships during a prison sentence.
We are in need of volunteers on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons to help run our tea bar in the prison Visits Hall, and to help provide play activities for children visiting the prison. We also need volunteers to help us build our links with the community (e.g. by designing displays), and to help maintain our small garden at the Visitors’ Centre, located outside the prison.
For more information contact Alison Drew, Volunteer Co-ordinator, on 01483 471090 or by e-mail at sendfamilylink@btconnect.com.
The Send Action Group plans on complimenting work done by road-based residents' associations and the Parish Council by working on new low-cost initiatives such as planting for a new nature trail and cleaning road signs. To decide the groups main aims come along on Wedneday 14th March at 8.00pm in the Church Rooms, it's open to all.
Volunteers are needed to help run the new Send Youth Club which will be set up in response to the Parish Plan with help from PCSO Kevin Holland. For more information contact Kevin Holland or the Youth Plan team.
Walking and Rambling Club in
Send
Through Parish Plan Questionnaire responses and discussion at the Parish
Plan Open Day last November, over 150 people said they would welcome a Walking
and Rambling Club in Send.
The Parish Plan Group is very keen to encourage this activity and, and conscious of the numerous organisations in Surrey that already support walking and rambling, have already put together information about them on the Send website www.sendvillage.org. It is likely however that the option of joining other groups may not be practical or desirable for many of the local people expressing interest in this activity – and the search is on for people who are interested in starting a Send-based Club.
If you would like to help establish the Club please email lparkerpicken@yahoo.com
or come along and meet her at the Annual
Parish Meeting. The lighter nights are now with us. Let’s try
and get this Club established soon so that we can explore our lovely local
countryside together.