GOLDSWORTH

May 2014 - Issue 139 NEWS

Inside this edition A famous toilet Racing dragons Holidays at home and Owls in boxes

Save our public loo A campaign to stop the council removing the public toilet in Goldsworth Park without building a replacement has been featured in local and national newspapers, on the radio and even on television. Support for the cause is growing, and at the time of publication, more than 500 people had signed the paper petition and the online one here: petitions.woking.gov.uk/convenience. Continued on page 6

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2 3 ! Goldsworth News From the Chairman Goldwater Lodge Goldsworth News is the magazine of the Goldsworth Park Community Association, Now work has started on the repairs to the Big Phil published bi-monthly and distributed free of building, things are moving fast – you might charge to approximately 5000 dwellings and have seen the crane removing the roof steel. organisations throughout Goldsworth Park This has also been noticed by unwelcome COMPUTERS and the surrounding area. visitors and there have already been thefts At Gina Ballerini we are a friendly, professional of materials from the site. I hope this will not Windows, team that always make our clients feel welcome, Acting Editor Jeremy Hodge cause any delays, as Toad Hall would like to be back in operation Sub Editor & Chairman Irene Watson in time for the new school year cared for and most importantly pampered. 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Wouldn’t it be Email: [email protected] OPENING HOURS Park, Woking GU21 3DN Monday: CLOSED Tuesday: 9 - 6pm Wednesday: 9 - 8pm e-mail: [email protected] great if this coincided with our re-opening? Areas Covered: Addlestone, Bisley, Byfleet, Chobham, Thursday: 9 - 8pm Friday: 9 - 6pm Saturday: 9 - 5pm Sunday: CLOSED We are looking forward to a real community event involving lots of local Cobham, Guildford, Horsell, Lightwater, New Haw, Distribution organisations and people. The Police did an excellent job organising Gina Ballerini, 11 The High Street, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey GU21 2PG. Ockham, Pyrford, Ripley, Send, West Byfleet, West End, Mrs Linda Hill, 5 Newsham Road, Goldsworth last year's event but they'd love to get ideas from more people this Tel: 01483 888528 / 888520 www.ginaballerini.co.uk time. Do you have a little spare time to help plan the details or set up Weybridge, Windlesham, Woking and Woodham Park 01483 835183 E-mail: [email protected] stalls on the day? 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Walton Heating Service 110x100 Ad 2k13.indd 1 01/11/2013 10:12:38 4 YOUR LETTERS 5 If you have something you'd like to say, please write to the editor: Events in detail [email protected] Calendar Community Youth first-served basis. Disabled toilet at the Lodge 1 Football Festival – Recruit a team of 16-20 May There must be many active seniors who need access to toilets whilst out walking. As a regular walker around the June 7-8 people who are up for lake and park, I deplore this lack. Thanks to thoughtless vandals, previous efforts in this regard were abortive. 11 Woking bikeathon, by Andy Morgan the challenge of racing Before the final design is cast in stone, I would put forward a plea for the benefits of disabled persons. If just one Woking Park, 10am; www. Goldsworth Park Rangers across Goldsworth toilet could be made available for Radar key-holders, it would be such a blessing. In all the years I have held such wokingbikeathon.co.uk; hurry FC is very pleased to Park lake. Choose a a key, I have only come across one such toilet; sadly, it was padlocked shut! to gather sponsorship and invite you to our 2014 Community Youth name, then register Tricia Lawrence apply Football Festival. The event will be held at at www.wsbhospices. Torridon Close 14 GPCA meeting – all Goldsworth Park Recreation Ground on co.uk. Disabled toilet at the Lodge 2 welcome; Dianthus building, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 June, starting We hope each team I would like to ensure that facilities for disabled people are incorporated 7pm at 9am both days. There will also be will raise at least £1000 right at the beginning of the developments and not left to negotiations at a barbecue, a bouncy castle and face in sponsorship. That's just £60 a person the end. The main facilities which would make the Lodge accessible would 18 Visiting locos day at painting. (with a full team of 20) for this epic event Charity at the heart of the Park be: 1)Level entrances and exits. 2) Electric-operated main entrance doors. Mizens railway, 2-3pm; www. We are also proud to be hosting the Simon in aid of your local hospices. All equipment 3) An accessible “Changing Places" toilet: www.changing-places.org. We are HeartBeat Support Woking, mizensrailway.co.uk Hedley Mini Football Festival, for Surrey and training will be provided on the day. Christina Candey a registered charity that meets 22 Elections for Goldsworth Primary League under-seven, under-eight For any further information, please contact Bainton Mead in Goldsworth Park. We support East (in the Generation and under-nine age groups within our own the fundraising team on 01483 881752 or recovering heart patients, their Centre), Goldsworth West (in tournament this year. email [email protected]. Notices families and carers. We raise funds the Dianthus building) and the Entry will be £2 per family, and a (more than £75,000 since we started European Parliament programme of events is included in the New Goldsworth News drop-in meeting at that are easy to read 11 years ago) for local services and price. June delivery volunteers are the Dianthus building, and entertaining, and are now collecting for a much needed needed in Brookfield, in the upstairs meeting you have a few minutes relatives' room in Coronary Care. 7 Goldsworth News drop-in Epworth Choir D-day concert – June 7 French's Wells, Collier room, on Saturday to spare every two In 2012, along with the other St meeting; Dianthus building, Epworth Choir will be performing a concert St Andrew's Holiday at Home – August Close, Nethercote Ave June 7. Everyone is months, please email Peter's volunteers, we were awarded upstairs meeting room, 4-6pm to commemorate the 70th anniversary of 19 and 21 and Cobbetts Close. welcome. Come along goldsworthnews@yahoo. the Queen's Award for Volunteering 7 Epworth Choir D-day D-day at Guildford Cathedral on Saturday Over-55s can take a two-day “holiday at Please contact Linda between 4 and 6pm if co.uk or come to the (the group equivalent of an MBE). We concert, Guildford Cathedral – 7 June at 7.30pm, to support the work of home” in August, hosted by volunteers Hill if you can help: you want to volunteer drop-in meeting. hope to give you more updates about see right the British Royal Legion. from St Andrew’s Church. Activities and hilllinda5@googlemail. to take on a small task, our work in the future. Tickets (£20 or £15, and £10 for students entertainment will include crafts, games, Age Concern Woking 7-8 Goldsworth Park Rangers com. The editor talk about your regular and children) can be obtained from the quizzes and old-time music hall singing. has moved from the fire Cliff Butler annual tournament – see right would like to take this column or have ideas station to Old School website: www.epworthchoir.org. The cost for Tuesday August 19 is £10, opportunity to thank all for the magazine and Place, Westfield, GU22 13 Deadline for July while Thursday 21 – which includes a our distributors, without our online presence. Or 9LY. Goldsworth News content Woking Hospice Dragon Boat Charity horse-drawn canal boat trip with cream whom the magazine email your questions to tea – is £12. Lunches are included. Prince Rupert's Blew 19 Police panel meeting, Challenge – July 6 would be impossible, goldsworthnews@yahoo. Don't miss the first Woking & Sam Beare For details, go to www.goldsworthpark. Regiment of Foote, Dianthus building and to say a special co.uk. Hospices Dragon Boat challenge on org.uk, visit the church office or phone of the Sealed Knot thank you to Linda, 20 Woking & Sam Beare Goldsworth Park Lake. Only 35 teams 01483 723879 (weekday mornings). Volunteer copy editors re-enactment society, who organises all of the Is there some news Hospices Midnight Walk – see can take part in this inaugural event, and are needed for the is looking for new deliveries. page 8 places will be allocated on a first-come, Goldsworth News. If recruits. Visit www. from Goldsworth 21-22 Surrey Youth Games There will be a you can rewrite press princerupertsbluecoats. Park that we haven't Goldsworth News releases to create stories org.uk to find out more. at Surrey Sports Park in reported? Make sure we Guildford; www.woking.gov.uk/ don't forget next time; syg2014 email goldsworthnews@ 28/29 Ramadan expected to begin yahoo.co.uk. The Wanted: a new crop KIDS NOT INCLUDED deadline for the next July A small group from the then Residents' Association formed the Allotments Society 37 years (unless they are your own!) ago. They laid out new plots in Westfield on an old Council household tip. Over 18 years that site edition is 13th June. 4 Goldsworth News published produced not only excellent crops but many hundreds of bottles, jars and other artefacts. 5 Beaufort summer fair, 12- In 1995 the Allotments Society moved to a purpose-built 90-plot site in Sheets Heath Lane, 3pm Brookwood, because the Westfield site was deemed dangerously polluted. Excellent crops of 6 Woking Hospice dragon-boat vegetables, fruit and flowers are still the order of the day, without the bottles and jars. There is racing on the lake – see right even an apiary at the site providing pollination. 11 Recycle for Woking Awards, However, the number of gardeners from Goldsworth Park has dwindled to a handful and there are HG Wells Conference Centre, full and half plots waiting for new members. If you are interested in growing your own, in great Woking: www.woking.gov.uk/ surroundings, give me a ring on 01483 821974. everydayheroes John Arkinstall, Chairman GPAS 19 Knaphill village show: www. knaphillshow.org Visit our 3 stunning showrooms in Frimley, Woking and Guildford 26 Horsell village show: 0500 691771 horsellvillageshow.co.uk www.notjustkitchenideas.com 6 7 Save our public loo (continued from cover) Hair-raising wedding, by Royer Slater Silly season starts early this year locations to satisfy demand. Bride-to-be Sarah Hickman lost 16 inches from her long She said, “I’ve been told It was surprising that, despite the missing Malaysian The GPCA believes there locks in the name of charity – just two weeks before her many times I must be aircraft, the crisis in Ukraine and the loss of the Korean is a demand in Goldsworth wedding to Steve Glaister at St Andrew’s on Saturday mad – but it is just hair. ferry, not to mention the Royal tour, the press still found Park – at least as much if April 5. I can choose my hair length, but there are little time and space last month to feature a “rogue” public not more demand than is The new Mrs Glaister donated her hair to the Little Princess girls and boys who don’t toilet in Goldsworth Park. found in every other park Trust charity, which helps children suffering hair loss, such have that choice and in the borough, all of which as those going through cancer treatment. “They will turn After articles in the local Woking News & Mail and who need my hair more have traditional public my hair into one or, hopefully, two wigs for brave children Advertiser, the nationals picked up the story and than I do!” Donations for toilets. who need it more than I do,” she explained. the Telegraph, Times and Daily Mail all had pieces the Little Princess Trust The demand for public exaggerating aspects they found amusing, but missing “Each wig costs around £350 to make, so I hope to raise charity can be made toilets in Goldsworth Park the point! BBC Radio Surrey did an interview with me and at least £700 for the charity from sponsors.” In fact, as this online at www.justgiving. has, if anything, grown over I was also contacted by BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. Goldsworth News goes to press, she has already raised com/sarah-hair-chop. Sarah Hickman TV’s Channel 5 programme The Wright Stuff mentioned the past few years. Regular over £800 for the charity. it, as did Channel 4’s Good Morning, again focusing on day to day use of the area the horror stories. is increasing and there are more special events taking What a relief! Photos from Woking News & Mail Losing our local public toilet place, all encouraged by The real story is that Woking Borough Council is planning the Council. Hundreds of In March, more than 250 runners hit the ground running in Goldsworth Park to raise money for to remove the blue automated “super-loo” from its people visit the lake and recreation ground and they need Sport Relief. Entrants ran one, three or six miles position near the playground and not replace it with any toilet facilities. other facilities because it had been vandalised continually to in aid of disadvantaged people in the UK and A Woking Borough Council spokesperson said: “The in the five years since it had been installed and itwas abroad. Council understands the need to provide public toilet “under-used”. Woking Football Club's KC Kat led a group warm- facilities across its public spaces and recreation grounds. up before the racing and Cllr Anne Roberts, the The GPCA had campaigned for many years to get a toilet Since its installation at considerable cost to the Council, Mayor of Woking, was on hand to sound the start for the recreation ground but were not happy with what the automatic public toilet at Goldsworth Park Recreation of each race and deliver medals at the finish was finally installed. This is an area known for a high Ground has been a continued target of vandals, which line. Woking’s Everyday Heroes lined the route, level of vandalism so it's not surprising that the toilet has has meant that the majority of time the toilet has been supporting runners and encouraging residents to been out of order for almost as much time as it has been KC Kat, from Woking FC, leads everyone in a warm-up Peter Stride, the aptly named out of use. recycle as part of the Council's campaign. winner over six miles working. Had the Council also installed CCTV cameras “After contacting key stakeholders, including Goldsworth in the area, as the GPCA requested, after windows Park Community Association, and given the fact that the in Goldwater Lodge were broken six times in as many Cross-country kids contract to provide this toilet expires in July 2014, it was months and lead stolen from the roof, there may not have agreed that the Council would remove the automatic Over three weeks in March, the Woking primary schools a confederation of schools in Woking which stages been so many problems. public toilet. cross-country racing took place in Goldsworth Park. More competitions across a range of sports over the year. While collecting signatures on the petition, stories “This has presented the Council with an appropriate than 700 runners between the ages of 7 and 11 took emerged that help explain the apparent under-use of the opportunity to review public toilet provision within the area part, from 14 schools in the area. The competition was facility. Because of the vandalism, a lot of people did not and consider how best to meet the future requirements of run by Wasps (Woking Area Sports Primary Schools), know whether the super-loo would be working properly; park users and the wider community before any decision others thought it cost money to use. Many were frightened is made.” the door would open while they were inside or lock them in. To balance these horror stories, there were people In the meantime, pressure must be kept up to ensure that who liked the fact that it was very clean. Goldsworth Park is not left without a public toilet. Public support You can still sign the petition at petitions.woking.gov.uk/ convenience. Email [email protected] and GuildfordGuildford The Council says its aim is to provide clean public toilets, tell us your views. in a good state of repair, open at convenient times and in branchbranch now now open! open!

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The Easter Sunday service as West Yorkshire, East Sussex, amount of rigging The Park people I meet are this year attracted the 30-year-old church’s largest-ever Cambridgeshire and Hampshire needed in order generally a happy lot, and feel congregation. Its Coffee Shop café has seen many more arrived for a beautiful sunny day to get you afloat lucky to live here. Front gardens customers since it started opening every weekday from at Goldsworth Park lake. The quickly. look glorious this spring: why go to 9am to 4pm. And nearby Strollers drop-in centre for retired weather was perfect, with steady show gardens when you can see and disabled people provides tea, coffee and refreshments winds and sun throughout, ensuring many exciting hours a jaw-dropping variety of plants and blooms during a stroll in a friendly, caring environment. racing on the water. on the Park? Yes, there’s a lot happening on Goldsworth Park. It IS a The Guides and Scouts are thriving. Woking Sea Cadets great place to live! Of the 19 entrants, 16 were Dragon Force 65 boats, which Find out more at www.woking-myc.org.uk has 60 boys and girls. Lakers youth centre is a great We want to know your point of view. Send your comments came home in the first three places. This model is a perfect success. Its top-notch status was recently officially on life in Goldsworth Park to me at parklife@wordsmart. recognised with a Second Star award – see below. The org.uk or to the editor at [email protected]. Guides and Scouts by Claire Storey Scouting and Guiding are most often On Tuesday March 11, the 2nd planned to complete three laps of the Stars come out for Lakers associated with fun, challenge and Goldsworth Park Brownies held a lake but the cyclists decided to carry adventure, but a key part of both fundraising evening for Macmillan on and completed five laps in total. The hard work of the young people, staff and volunteers organisations is the Promise that each Cancer Support. They raised £200, Energy levels were replenished with at Lakers youth centre has been recognised with the person makes to help other people. thanks to the support and generosity hot chocolate back at the Generation PC 404432 PC 40198 PCSO 14849 PCSO 15004 awarding of a Second Star under the National Youth The youngsters of Goldsworth Park of parents and friends. To support Centre. Matt Hart Emma Robinson Sarah Wentworth Adam Worsell Agency’s Quality Mark scheme. This scores how the club Guides and Scouts have recently her mum who was running in the 1st Goldsworth Park Cubs were not to performs against numerous standards – Lakers achieved shown their commitment to this very London Marathon, one Brownie had be left out. They raised funds for the Catching thieves and speeders nearly 100%. The centre is open on Tuesday, Wednesday important pledge by taking part in suggested a cake sale to raise more British Heart Foundation through a Metal thefts and Thursday evenings at Goldsworth Park Centre. fun activities while raising money for money. Other Brownies came up sponsored skip. Not only did many of Over recent weekends, metal has been removed overnight For details call youth leader Sandie Bolger on 01483 charity. with more ideas, and they organised the Cubs learn how to skip, they learnt from the construction area of Toad Hall Nursery and 727253 or email [email protected]. an event where, as well as the cake about heart health and fitness too. Goldwater Lodge on Wishbone Way near the lake. If you stall and its delicious goodies, there Well done to all of the boys and girls have any information please contact Surrey Police on 101. were tombolas, lucky dips and other who took part in these activities – Two men charged with theft from vehicles games. an excellent demonstration of the In the early hours of Sunday March 16, two males targeted The 1st Goldsworth Park Scout Group Promise in action. insecure vehicles in Goldsworth Park and removed a raised money for the Sports Aid charity There are currently a couple of number of sat navs and mobile phones. They were arrested by cycling or running around the lake vacancies in the Cub pack. If you shortly after, and charged on March 26. in fancy dress. Postman Pat, Batman know of a child aged between 8 and Most vehicle crime is opportunist, and thankfully it can and Robin and even a pig from the 10 who would like to join, call Hilary be relatively easy to prevent. To reduce your chances of Angry Birds video game took to the on 01483 766908. becoming a victim of vehicle crime, follow this simple advice. Park on foot and bike. They had all Do not leave anything inside your car. Remove the stereo or stereo fascia if possible. Remove satellite navigation Dragon boat racing and midnight walking with the Hospice devices, including the support cradle, and wipe any suction pad marks from the windscreen. Leave your glove box Lorraine Weedon from Woking & Sam Beare Hospices has The Midnight Walk is a ladies- open, to show it is empty. Park in a garage where possible, kindly agreed to keep us up to date about the Hospices' only, 8-mile trek that starts at or a well lit area. relocation and other activity. 10pm. It's a great evening for Speed monitoring family, friends and colleagues Good progress has been made since the November On Tuesday March 8, the Safer announcement of our plans to create a new hospice in to get together and raise Neighbourhood Team conducted a Goldsworth Park. money for our Hospices. speed-enforcement operation on a Hundreds of females aged A project development team, led by chief executive Nigel number of roads across the Park. from 13 to 80 take part each Harding, is briefing the architects to ensure the new Six driver referrals were issued to year and the Goldsworth hospice becomes a centre of excellence. Requirements drivers, and one male was reported Park community are no include maximising access to daylight and outdoor space for travelling at 40mph on Kirkland exception. Since the event for patients and their families while preserving their dignity Avenue. began, 152 ladies from GU21 and a commitment to making the hospice as sustainable The local team will continue to hold 3 postcodes have completed as possible. Plans are being finalised and we expect regular speed-monitoring sessions the walk and between them building work to start later in the year. to remind residents that Goldsworth raised £39,000. What a Last issue I spoke of engaging with the community, and we Park is a 30mph zone, and challenge fantastic effort! those who exceed this speed. will certainly be making a splash at Goldsworth Park lake Note from the editor: PCSO Sarah Wentworth , who writes on Sunday July 6, when we hold the Dragon Boat Charity Stay up to date with the Challenge. Find out more on page 5. these articles, is moving to a new policing role in the town Hospices' news by visiting centre. The Chairman would like to thank her for all her help One of the Hospices' other big fundraising events takes www.wsbhospices.co.uk. with the magazine, organising the Big Pull Together and place on June 20 at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge. protecting our community, and wish her luck in the new job. 10 11 From the Lakeside Council News

Roger Westcott is one of the voluntary fishing bailiffs appointed by Woking Borough Council Housing magic Electric cars get a all points on the CYC visit www.woking.gov.uk/ to oversee fishing, monitor fish stocks and other wildlife, and to keep the area generally A new online service that boost network. Call 650500 or syg2014. clean and tidy. provides comprehensive visit www.chargeyourcar. Electric vehicle owners Have your say housing options advice org.uk. Spring – don’t you just love it? After such a long, wet several families in the bird boxes, some of can now charge for free, You still have time to view has been launched by winter, we all get a taste of the feel-good factor. We moan which have already fledged. One family of thanks to charge points Get in the Games and comment on the new Woking Borough Council. about putting the clocks back in autumn but when we put robins have grown as fat as barrels begging fishermen for in town centre car parks. It's not too late to sign council plans around The Housing Options them forward again at the end of March, it’s a wake-up call red maggots. All in all, the lake and surrounding area is a The six points use up for the free sports affordable housing and for every living thing. Trees burst into leaf, daffodils wave hive of activity. Wizard helps users low-carbon electricity coaching sessions taking hot-food takeaways. Visit their bright yellow heads, everything looking fresh and new based on their I was contacted by Local Agenda 21, a group of generated via the town place in the build-up to www.woking2027.info – even we cast off our winter coats and put a smile on our circumstances and conservationists who had heard of our ventures on and centre Combined Heat the Surrey Youth Games, before May 8. faces. That’s the feel-good factor! around the lake from Woking Borough Council and asked generated a personalised and Power station and being held at Surrey The fact is that, like the clocks, all forms of life take a leap if we would like an owl nesting box. Seeing as tawny action plan. Visit www. are located in dedicated Sports Park in Guildford forward in spring. The birds are nesting, small mammals owls have been seen and heard in the Park, I was keen wokinghousingoptions. parking bays on level 2 on the weekend of June are rearing new families, fish are spawning – a new year to say yes, so I met with Charles Barber, one of their org.uk. Computer of the Yellow Shoppers, 21-22. The tactics and Is there some news with new life all around for us to enjoy. And where better representatives and, after a stroll around the area and a terminals and internet to observe some of nature’s magic than on and around cup of tea, we came up with what we hope will be the in Brewery Road and in skills sessions in a we haven’t included? access are available Make sure we don’t the lake; wherever you look, there is something to catch perfect location. So, in a few weeks time, it looks like Victoria Way car parks. large range of sports for at the Council’s Civic miss it next time – your eye. Thousands of tadpoles wriggling in the margins, I’ll be up a ladder again – that will be a hoot! Watch this Join the Charge Your children aged between 7 email goldsworthnews@ Offices and most local yahoo.co.uk coots, moorhens and great crested grebes nesting on space over the coming years to see whether we attract and 15, will continue until libraries. Car (CYC) scheme for branches hanging into the water, and although the island any tenants. just £10 for access to June. To find out more, has not flourished as I hoped it would, several birds have Finally, you will note that, with the help of Serco, we have made good use of it to rear their broods put some 40 bales of barley straw in the water. This is done We had hoped that a pair of swans would nest this year as every year to combat blooms of algae, which can be a there was plenty of courtship and territorial behaviour, but, problem as the water warms, depleting the oxygen levels, to date, no positive signs of nest-building have been seen. and causing skin and breathing difficulties if ingested. The A life well Woking I’m only guessing but most, if not all, of the swans are still bales also make good roosting points and provide nesting remembered Funeral Service quite young and haven’t honed their skills yet – if you know material for the birds. lives on. what I mean. Within the next few weeks, as the water warms, you will see great shoals of bream, roach, tench and carp coming A funeral is a time to say goodbye and to remember the life of the person you in from the depths to lay their eggs among the reeds lining love. It’s our privilege to be at your side. the banks. We have been funeral directors for A wide range of care generations: this is a way of life for us. When someone you love dies, you can What about our little wild corner, you may wonder: have depend on us. the kingfishers used the “des res” bank? Not yet, isthe services from one We’re honoured to be the people you can answer for now. Having said that, something has nested in of the most trusted turn to, even at the hardest times. one of the holes – not sure what, maybe a robin or a tit or You can contact us any time or you can a wren – I will be keeping a watchful eye on it. There are visit us at names in care: www.wokingfunerals.co.uk

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