fundraiser

Bob Barter’s jazz gig for Ukraine 0
- Arts, News
- 7th April 2022
Don’t miss the legendary jazz musician Bob Barter who will be playing a gig at The Berrylands on Sunday (April 10) to raise money to support refugees who are fleeing Ukraine. The 94-year-old former Elgar Avenue resident will be tinkling the ivories at the pub in Chiltern Drive with fellow jazz musicians Jimmy Hastings (tenor
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Bob’s jazz fundraiser for Ukraine 0
- Arts, News
- 22nd March 2022
Ninety-four-year-old Second World War veteran Bob Barter is raising money to help refugees fleeing Ukraine by putting on a jazz gig at the Berrylands pub in Surbiton. The lunchtime gig on Sunday, April 10 by the Bob Barter quintet featuring singer Jenny Howe along with musicians Jimmy Hastings (tenor sax, flute and clarinet), Eric Ford
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Join live music and charity auction fundraiser at cricket club 0
- Arts, News, Sport
- 11th August 2021
A clubhouse boogie and charity auction to raise money for Neuroendocrine Cancer UK will take place on Saturday (Aug 14) at Long Ditton Cricket Club. Everyone is invited to the event at The Hogs’ Stokes Field ground off Betts Way. Doors open at 6pm. Adults, £10, children, £5. The Frets kick off the live music
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Long Ditton is yarn bombed for schools’ Easter fundraiser 0
- Arts, News
- 4th April 2021
Happy Easter! The lychgate at St Mary’s Church, Long Ditton, and other sites around the area have been yarn bombed to raise money for two local schools. The Friends of Long Ditton Infant and Nursery and St Mary’s Junior Schools have organised the yarn bombing by various community groups including parishoners and the local guides
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Knitters get knitting to yarn bomb Long Ditton village 0
- Arts, News
- 15th March 2021
Are you good with knitting needles? Then you could help yarn bomb Long Ditton. The Friends of Long Ditton Infant and Nursery and St Mary’s Junior Schools are appealing for wool, knitted or crocheted squares, scarves, flowers, animals, pom poms and finger knitting to help adorn the village. During the Easter holidays in 2019 there
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Return of the water vole!0
- Environment, News
- 16th November 2020
Berrylands-based Citizen Zoo has raised £18,250 to bring water voles back to the Hogsmill River. The rewilding group’s fundraiser smashed its original £12,000 target. The extra money will now help recruit a dedicated water vole officer to manage the scheme and scale the project beyond the Hogsmill River to the Thames. The next two years will
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