Charity/voluntary

A charity which sends medical staff to developing countries has opened a shop in Victoria Street and is looking for donations.

TLC (Transplant Links Community) opened the new shop on March 1 and is welcoming quality mechandise to sell (except electrical items).

TLC takes teams of doctors, nurses and surgeons to developing countries to help save the lives of people with kidney failure.

Anyone with goods requiring collection should call Anne on 07592 019739.

Hundreds of poppy-wearers observed two-minutes silence at one of the most picturesque memorials in the county for Remembrance Day today (Sunday, November 8).

At 11am, more than two hundred people made no peep as Reveille piped out and filled the grounds of the Royal Air Forces Memorial on Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, where the names of 20,000 service men who lost their lives fighting for their country are etched on its walls.

Scouts and guides from the village will be washing cars and selling poppies for charity this weekend.

On Saturday, November 7, the children from the 1st Englefield Green Scout and Guide Groups will also be selling second-hand books and toys in the car park of the Armstrong Gun pub from 10am until 2pm.

All proceeds from the event will go towards the British Legion Poppy Appeal.

The Runnymede Alzheimer's Society hosted its first ever Memory Walk on Sunday raising hundreds of pounds for the charity.

The free event drew in between 40 and 50 participants who completed the four and half mile walk around Virginia Water lake.

Scouts from the 1st Englefield Green Group host a charity car wash at the Armstrong Gun Pub, Victoria Street on Saturday, June 6, from 10.30am until 2.30pm.

Car washes by voluntary donation which will go towards the scout group.

The Egham and Staines Conservation Volunteers will be doing coppicing work on behalf of the National Trust, at Coopers Hill, on Sunday, February 8, at 10am.

Volunteers should park in Coopers Hill Lane near the Air Force Memorial, OS Map 176, grid reference TQ 998 718.

For information call 01784 456105.

Students from Royal Holloway took time out of their busy schedules to host a Christmas party elderly people in Englefield Green on Saturday(13).

A group of 23 pensioners from the Aldwyn Place residential housing enjoyed a festive raffle, bingo and musical entertainment in the Founder's Building at Royal Holloway.

The regulator OFCOM has granted the hard working volunteers of Hospital Radio Wey an FM channel to broadcast their music & local information programmes.

Radio Wey, based at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, will be pulling out all the stops from October 16 to November 12.

An Englefield Green police officer returned this week from a 977 mile John O'Groats to Lands End cycle ride for charity.

PCSO Carole Lawford, along with friend Gemma Stilwell, cycled for 19 days solid after setting off from John O'Groats on Tuesday August 5, and expects the trip to raise more than £1,800 for charity Water Aid, who help provide clean water and wells in Africa.

She said: "It was pretty tough, but I feel remarkably alive after it, if half a stone lighter.