Join local businesses and reduce your plastic waste Meet your Police Community Support Officers Spring 2019 @wokingcouncil www.facebook.com/wokingbc Please read and then recycle www.woking.gov.uk/thewokingmagazine AWARD WINNING TOP TECH UK 2014/15 AllAll PartsParts & LabourLaboour GuaranteedGuaranteed ServicingServicing toto ManufacturersManufacturers StandardsStandards MOTsMOTTss – includingding Diesels ElectronicElectronic FaultFauult DiagnosisDiagnosis Brakes,Br akes , Exhausts,Exhauusts, ClutchesClutches & TyresTTyryres Diesel PoweredPowereed TuningTuning ECU RemappingRemappiing AirAir ConditioningConditioning ServicingServicing ANewNe w Rolling Road RobinRobin HoodHood RdRd t KnaphillKnaphill t WokingWoking t GU21GU21 2LX2LX Spring | 2019 Introduction Contents News in brief Welcome to the Latest news from across Woking 4 spring edition of The Woking Herbert Protocol Magazine – Safe and found in Woking 11 your window on Woking Borough Celebrate Woking Your spring social and cultural diary 12 As we start to see the green shoots of spring, it’s the perfect time to think about starting up new Shah Jahan Mosque projects, taking on new challenges or simply Help celebrate the mosque’s 15 getting out and about more. 130 year anniversary This edition is bursting with inspirational articles StartUp Woking that could help you reach your goals for 2019. Helping local businesses grow 16 Perhaps you want to reduce your plastic waste? You can connect with a burgeoning online A visit to the Hockey Museum community who could help you do just that. Have Discover Woking’s rich 17 you had ambitions of starting your own business? hockey history Find out how StartUp Woking has helped two independent local restaurateurs set up and thrive. Get to know your PCSOs Or, perhaps take inspiration from the founder Looking after your community 22 of the Hockey Museum who is well on the way to achieving his life-long ambition of documenting the entire history of his favourite sport. Out and About Visit some of Woking’s Islamic 24 Plus, get out and about to help celebrate Shah landmarks Jahan Mosque’s 130th anniversary and why not get involved with a multitude of projects aiming Why don’t you? to help increase biodiversity and keep our Reduce your plastic waste 30 borough green? There is enough contained in these pages to put a spring in your step this season so turn the page and enjoy the read! Contact details The Woking Magazine is compiled and published three Andy Denner times a year by Woking Borough Council. A total of 47,000 The Woking Magazine Editor copies are printed and delivered free to households and many public information points across the Borough. Editorial Team: Andy Denner , phone 01483 743026, email [email protected] Quantum PR , phone 01233 500200, email [email protected] Design: Quantum PR If you wish to advertise in The Woking Magazine, please call Andy Denner on 01483 743026, or email [email protected] The appearance of adverts or loose leaf inserts in The Woking Magazine does not constitute an endorsement by the Council. Front cover: Rooster Shack goes The Woking Magazine is distributed to households via Royal plastic free Mail. We have no control over the type or quantity of other Inset: PCSOs Mit Patel and Neil Wilkinson materials that are delivered by Royal Mail at the same time. www.woking.gov.uk | 01483 755855 3 Spring | 2019 News in brief... News in brief... News in brief... News Charity ball for a fondly remembered police officer In March 2004 PC 2239 Richard Gunn of Surrey Police was killed on duty while responding to an emergency call. He was only 29 years old and due to marry his fiancée Laura just seven weeks later. During his six years in the force, Richard proved to open to all and will raise funds for be a popular and well-respected officer and is still two police charities, Care of Police fondly remembered by his family, friends and Survivors and The Police Roll of colleagues. Next year marks the 15th anniversary of Honour Trust. his death and on 4 May 2019 a dinner dance will be held in his memory at the H.G. Wells Conference and For further information or to apply for tickets please Events Centre in Woking. contact [email protected] The event, which will include a reception drink, three- To find out more about the charities featured, visit course dinner, live music, an auction and a raffle, is www.ukcops.org and www.policememorial.org.uk Horsell Care is looking Support for for volunteers SMEs to reduce Illness, disability or mobility problems energy bills sometimes make it difficult for older or This spring, the Business Energy disabled residents to get to important SMART Woking project will be offering surgery and hospital appointments, or support to small-to-medium-sized local shops. businesses (SMEs) within Woking to That’s why Horsell Care was established by make cost effective changes to the way visionary residents in 1999. they use energy. Volunteers can get involved as much or as little as In line with the Council’s sustainability strategy, their schedule allows. Woking 2050, Business Energy SMART offered by If you would like to know more, please call ThamesWey Sustainable Communities and Action 01483 730740 and leave a message for the Surrey, aims to help Woking Borough based Duty Volunteer to contact you. businesses reduce energy costs and lower carbon emissions. With energy bills rising, energy efficiency is an increasingly important issue for smaller businesses and there are many ways in which substantial savings can be made. Upgrading lighting to LED for example, gives a relatively rapid return on investment with potential savings of up to 60 per cent compared to existing lighting costs. To find out how you could help your business make Help prevent fly-tipping savings and improve your environmental performance, please visit www.actionsurrey.org/ in Surrey help/businesses or contact [email protected] Surrey residents and businesses are being urged to be vigilant when a receipt and avoid traders who knock on doors or employing traders to dispose of their advertise on websites like Facebook and Gumtree. waste, or risk fines of up to £400. Fly-tippers can face fines of up to £50,000 and imprisonment of up to 12 months if convicted. Although tradesmen who dispose of waste on They are also at risk of being sentenced to unpaid behalf of residents may fly-tip the waste, it could community service or having their vehicle crushed. still be whoever employs them that is fined. To avoid prosecution, residents and businesses must ensure To report an incident, find out how to check if a they use a registered waste carrier and ask them trader is licensed and for more information on how and where they intend to dispose of waste, get fly-tipping, visit www.recycleforsurrey.org.uk 4 www.woking.gov.uk | 01483 755855 in brief... News in brief... News in brief... News in brief... Music for all at the Woking Wurlitzer If you love the music of André Rieu, James Last, Mantovani, Glenn Miller, Magic of the Musicals, popular light classics and more, you will enjoy one of the friendly monthly evenings of popular music played by visiting star musicians on the magnificent Woking Wurlitzer. Always fun and friendly events, a typical concert night includes favourite show tunes, marches, waltzes, Latins and much more, all played live on the mighty three- manual console, which controls over 1,000 pipes plus real percussion instruments. The Woking Wurlitzer was originally at the Granada Cinema in Welling but has been the jewel in the crown of on 15 June, when California’s Bill Campbell makes a Woking Leisure Centre since it was relocated there in flying visit to captivate audiences with his magical 1995. Since then it has been featured in monthly musical treats. concerts of easy listening music, plus receives rave reviews each year when played to thousands of people Admission is £10 per person, payable in cash on the at the CAMRA Woking Beer Festival. door. Light refreshments are provided at the interval in return for a small donation. There is ample free parking Concerts take place from 7pm until just after 9pm on for up to three hours. Saturday evenings, with the next featuring not one but two very popular top organists from the Midlands on 6 For more information visit www.wokingwurlitzer.co.uk April and 18 May. There is an extra special performance or call Judith and Len on 01923 720511 . Share the space – drop your pace along Basingstoke Canal A 224 year old heritage asset, originally designed for horses to pull barges, is now trying to meet modern day transport and recreation needs. The Basingstoke Canal towpath has become a Basingstoke Canal Authority on behalf of Hampshire popular access route for recreation as well as an County Council and Surrey County Council as ideal, green, traffic free commuter route to local ‘countryside for quiet recreation’. The towpath is not towns and train stations across the Borough and a public right of way (with the exception of two short beyond. A common issue across the UK waterway lengths of public footpath). Pedestrians therefore network is the lack of space to widen the towpath to have the priority on the towpath and cyclists are only accommodate additional use, and concerns over allowed to use it with the permission of the owners. conflict between users. To allow cyclists to continue using the space safely, a new Cycling Policy and Towpath Code of Conduct The Basingstoke Canal is managed by the has been adopted. The new policy gives pedestrians priority and asks all users to be considerate to each other. In busy locations cyclists may find it quicker to use the nearest road as an alternative route.