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Updates About what we are doing in Hooley
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Our Hooley Residents Association committee member and Treasurer, Mr Roger Haines, has now hung up his angle grinder and is no longer recycling metal to raise funds for our community. Over the last five or six years, Roger has been taking in old washing machines, bicycles, metal shelving, pipes and ovens etc. (in fact, you name it, if it was metal, Roger took it in!!) and stripped them all down before taking all of the scrap metal to Elliott Metals in Horley and exchanging it for several thousands of pounds…
Roger Haines
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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…
Reduce Surrey’s waste and get rewards
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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)…
Community Notice Boards & Spring Bulbs!
