Initiatives

  • Charity donation

  • Reduce Surrey’s waste and get rewards

    Rethink Waste is a free scheme available to anyone living in Surrey that offers a range of rewards for reducing waste. 

    Surrey residents can sign up online and will receive weekly emails, which include engaging and gamified activities designed to help residents reduce the amount of waste they produce. Every time a member engages with content, they receive points, which can be used to donate to schools, charities or to enter prize draws.

    Participating Surrey schools can win a share of £6,000 from the scheme to run an environmental project benefiting the school and its pupils.

    So, not only will you be helping the planet, as waste reduction means fewer resources are used up when creating new products, you’ll be helping good causes too.

    Rethink Waste is being delivered by the Surrey Environment Partnership, made up of Surrey County Council and the 11 district and borough councils in Surrey, in collaboration with Greenredeem, an organisation that provides digital engagement platforms to provoke environmental behaviour change.

    Residents can take part in Rethink Waste now by signing up online at www.rethinkwaste.co.uk 

  • Community Notice Boards & Spring Bulbs!

    As you may well know, the Hooley Residents Association purchased and had installed five new community notice boards around Hooley earlier this year. After several years of trying to get our old, dilapidated and rotten notice boards replaced by Reigate & Banstead Council, we eventually raised the funds ourselves and purchased the new notice boards, with a small contribution from the council’s Community Infrastructure Levy. Our friends from the Raven Housing Trust kindly installed the new notice boards free of charge (thanks to Jim Snelson, Neil Bourn and their team) and in October, spring bulbs, also purchased through Hooley Residents Association fundraising, were planted under the new notice boards – in fact, we had enough spring bulbs to plant some under most street signs as well! so, in spring 2024 look out for, hopefully, a delightful display of spring flowers and colour around Hooley which, should bring a smile to many people’s faces!

  • Tree planting in Hooley

    It has taken us nearly a year of working in collaboration with Surrey County Council and Reigate and Banstead Council, but we have finally planted our new trees in Hooley!

    On Saturday 11th February 2023, we planted 10 new trees in Hooley. 8 trees were planted around the green on Church Lane Avenue and Church Lane Drive, 2 were planted on Rowan Grove.

    If you are interested in the types of trees we planted, we had a selection of Tilia Platyphyllos, Sorbus Aria, Sorbus (feathers) and Populus nigra trees. The trees were donated by Surrey County Council, and we are very grateful for their support with out local project.

    Please can I ask you to water our new trees in passing, if and when you can.

    I am very grateful to our tree planting crew which included Councillor Mus Tary, Jerry Warwick, Roger Haines, Anne Turnor, James Heard and myself. I am also very grateful to Robbie Stewart at Surrey County Council for organising, donating and delivering our new trees.

    Please enjoy the pictures below of us planting the trees.

  • Community Defibrillator

    Great news everyone!

    Hooley now has a community defibrillator! Hopefully, this will never be required but, if ever needed it is fitted to the Hooley Village Hall in St Margarets Road, to the left of the main entrance doors!

    Our thanks go to our local electrician and neighbour Andy Young, and his colleagues from Watt Electrical Services who, fitted the defibrillator today…………………….

    Watt Electrical Services Surrey: Electrical Contractors for Repairs & Installations (wattelectricalservicesltd.co.uk)

    Our defibrillator is registered with The Circuit, the national defibrillator network The Circuit – the national defibrillator network

    The defibrillator is stored in an illuminated and temperature controlled secure cabinet and is accessed by using a push button code which, is provided by the emergency services when the caller tells the operator the location, This is given on the cabinet door and is a code for What3Words what3words /// The simplest way to talk about location which, is now used by all ambulance services across the UK.

    Watch this space for news and information on a training session on how to use the defibrillator and how to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) which, we will try to arrange for those who wish to attend very soon – although the defibrillator is VERY easy to use and an audio guide talks you through what to do when using it.

    Many thanks again to Andy and his team, and to everybody else who, has contributed something to making this important community initiative a great success. There are far too many of you to mention! Also, to Mick Nelson of Nelson’s Bar and Pizzeria who, has undertaken to be our ‘defibrillator guardian’ to ensure it is working correctly and ready for use if ever needed.