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issue you are very welcome to send details by the next editorial deadline of 15th April for the May edition. In the summer there will also be the opportunity of getting a ‘second bite of the cherry’ because the Ewell Empire will be launched on 1st June 2018 and many of the contributions for Epsom residents will also be relevant to Ewell residents. For a full list of deadlines and distribution dates in 2018 please go to page 31. I hope you enjoy getting involved in all the many activities going on in Epsom and do let me know if I’m missing out on anything? Richard Milbourn, Editor Email: richard.milbourn@carnah.co.uk
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HORTON CHAPEL TO BE ARTS CENTRE elcome to 2018! I can’t quite believe we are in the middle of January already. It’s going to be a fast run year I feel. Outlined below are some of my recent observations and findings which I thought might be useful to share. There is always a great deal going on in Epsom and the items below are a small summary. Horton Chapel Arts & Heritage Society They are a voluntary group of Epsom residents planning to restore and refurbish Epsom’s Grade II listed Horton Chapel, which has stood empty for many years, and run it as a not-for-profit community arts centre. The group has recently reached a major milestone in that they have submitted the planning application for the development of the Horton Chapel project! Congratulations to the group. More information can be found here www.hortonchapelproject.org MGSO4 Magnesium sulphate is an inorganic salt with the formula MgSO4(H2O)x where 0≤x≤7. It is often encountered as the heptahydratesulfate mineral epsomite commonly called Epsom salt. MGSO4 is a dynamic, grassroots charity set up to promote arts and music in Epsom & Ewell. The name of our festival - MGSO4 - has been inspired by MgSO4, (magnesium sulphate) the chemical
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formula for Epsom Salts, that made the town famous almost 400 years ago this year! MGSO4 will be running the Epsom and Ewell Arts Festival between the 2nd and 8th July 2018. Please check out their website at www.mgso4festival.org and see if you can help at all? Epsom Cycling Club Established in 1891, Epsom Cycling Club is one of the oldest cycling clubs in the UK with a great pedigree and past. They have over 100 members and can be seen gathering on a Sunday morning at the corner of Wells Road/A24, Epsom, KT18. This is on the right at the top of the hill past Epsom hospital as you head from Epsom towards Ashtead. This is the regular Sunday club ride which all riders/abilities welcome. The main thing, for me anyway, to bear in mind is that the ride often includes a refreshment stop in a local cycling café! Coffee and cake and a way to support local independent coffee shops. Anyway, more information can be found on their website – www.epsomcc.co.uk along with details of other rides and upcoming events and competitions. Epsom Camera Club Another local club that has been running for a long time, not quite as long as Epsom Cycling; Epsom Camera club were founded in 1945 and is affiliated to the Photographic
W OODCO TE EP S OM RES ID EN TS SO C IETY Alliance of Great Britain through the Surrey Photographic Association. The group caters for photographers of all standards and I’ll feedback more information in the next article as I’m going to one of their meetings this evening. The Club is friendly and informal, encouraging members to improve and expand their skills, ideas and knowledge in all forms of photography. Through our programme of activities and competitions and on an informal basis. Members are encouraged to seek distinctions of the Royal Photographic Society and Photographic Alliance of Great Britain. More information can be found from their website at www.epsomcc.org.uk Epsom Downs Model Aircraft Club
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the Epsom Downs most weekends flying a large selection of aircraft. To support my desire to fly a drone and take aerial shots joining the Epsom Downs Model Aircraft club and the British Model Flying Association seemed a logical and necessary step to making sure I was insured and that I am following the correct guidelines. More on my experience of aerial photography in another edition. Epsom Downs Model Aircraft Club hwww.edmac.org.uk British Model Flying Association www.edmac.org.uk Street Trees Significant progress has been made with the Epsom &Ewell Tree Advisory Board (EETAB) and Epsom & Ewell Borough Council (EEBC). Funding has been raised to allow 35 street trees to be planted soon, ideally before March, to allow them to have any chance of taking root and surviving long term. EETAB is launching a Street Tree Watch for the project for the newly planted trees. Details of where these trees are to be planted are being finalized now and one may be coming close to where you live. Would you like to help make sure it is watered correctly and sufficiently? Are you keen to make sure the £250 per tree investment is not wasted? Would you like to sponsor a tree for the 2019 planting season? Please have a look at the EETAB website for more details, contact myself for more information or Mike Ford, the chairman of EETAB, on how 6 FEBRUARY 2018
you can get involved in Street Tree Watch. EETAB Web site - www.eetab.org.uk Steven McCormick email – stevenjmccormick@yahoo.co.uk Mike Ford – EETAB chairman m21ford@btinternet.com Rosebery Park – Pond Work has started on the muchneeded repairs to the pond in Rosebery Park. The water is pretty much drained now and CALPAC, a local fishing group, has once again been on site to help remove the last of the fish from the pond to other locations. We watch as the works continue and look forward to the spring/summer where we can all enjoy the pond in this lovely town park. Friends of Rosebery Park website: www.friendsofroseberypark.org.uk New shops in Epsom Some observations from my meandering around Epsom recently. Pret A Manger opened next to the Metro Bank on 3rd January 2018. A good way to kick start the new year with some nice coffee and cake. Waterstones opened their doors in December and are warmly welcomed back to Epsom. The Post Office which is currently housed in the town hall has new premises which are near enough opposite Waterstones on the high street. Lidl were granted planning permission to redevelop the ground in upper high street recently. Steven J McCormick, Chairman Woodcote Epsom Residents Society www.woodcoteepsomresidentssociety.org Email;stevenjmccormick@yahoo.co.uk
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THE DORLINGS AND MRS BEETON Most of the 19th century and well into the 20th horse racing in Epsom was greatly influenced by the Dorling family. Henry Dorling’s daughter Isabella Beeton became particularly associated with her first book in 1861 called Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management.
The Dorlings lived at Ormonde House at the corner of East Street and Station Road (now Upper High Street).
The Dorling Family In 1834 Henry Dorling returned from London, where he had been serving a seven-year apprenticeship, and settled down to help his father William in the family business at Epsom. The Dorlings traded as booksellers, but were not above selling writing paper, lavender water, pianos and other items of a more miscellaneous description. William had acquired an Albion printing press for his original shop at Bexhill, and when this came to Epsom he used it to run off race cards for the Derby: hoping to improve this side of the business, he made sure Henry was apprenticed to a printer. Henry Dorling Makes His Mark Henry brought a wife, Emily, from London: they had four children. In 1840 his business opportunity came when he was made Clerk of the Course for Epsom races. Preparing race cards had already made the Dorlings 8 FEBRUARY 2018
familiar with the world of trainers, bookmakers, stable boys and jockeys; now Henry was in direct contact with the owners. He struck up a friendship with Lord George Bentinck, who was deep in a struggle to reform the racing underworld, and together the two of them planned ‘to do something to pull Epsom racecourse together’. A Growing Family Henry had married again in 1843. Elizabeth Mayson, the widow of his friend Benjamin, brought four children of her own to the marriage - Isabella (then four years old) being the eldest - so that accommodation in the Dorling premises was cramped. In 1845 Henry leased the Grandstand, a building which had been constructed fifteen years before by the Epsom Grand Stand Association and was now running at a loss. An offer of £1000 a year rent for it, together with Bentinck’s endorsement of the
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enthusiastic lessee, decided the Association in his favour. An Unusual Childhood Henry bought a new printing press and moved his business to the Grandstand basement, leaving his father and sister Lucy to run the bookshop and stationers in the High Street. He began reforms to the building and the races, laying out a new Derby course in 1847 and building a new wing for the stand. And he sent his children off to live in this vast classical structure, sleeping in the smaller committee rooms and offices and romping around balconies intended to accommodate five thousand spectators. On race days, when the building returned to its original purpose, the children were packed off to Brighton. Respectability At Last By 1851 William Dorling had retired and Henry was head of the firm. He rented Ormonde House at the end of the High Street, using the northern wing as his bookshop and lending library. Here a growing family could live in style: Henry (like
the Derby to which he owed his success) was becoming increasingly popular and respectable. The eldest children endured long dinner parties and filled in time with country walks. Isabella looked forward to fitting sessions with the dressmaker Miss Findlay - ‘if you feel at all dull she amuses you with all sorts of poetry’ - and to weekly piano lessons in London. Isabella Finds A Husband By the time that Isabella was courting her future husband Sam, the Dorling children had reached a formidable total of seventeen. The courtship was carried on largely by letter, as there were few opportunities to meet. At the wedding there were eight bridesmaids in pale green, pale mauve or white: each of Isabella’s sisters had contributed to her bridal costume. Presents were laid out between flowers in the reception room, the champagne flowed, and after a few hours she left Epsom at last, heading for Reigate to catch the honeymoon train. C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 1 1
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Sam Beeton’s Talent When he was apprenticed in a City papermerchant’s office, Sam Beeton learnt to rise early and to work till late. He realised that cheap books and magazines were selling well, because growing numbers of people had been taught to read for the first time; he also realised that there were two gaps in the market - no-one was publishing anything specially aimed at women or children. In 1852 he began his publishing career with a best-seller, the novel ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, which kept seventeen printing presses busy at the height of its popularity and earned enough to support his later journalism. Sam Becomes An Agony Aunt At 2d a copy, Sam’s ‘Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine’ was the first cheap publication of its kind. He set the essay competitions; he commissioned columns on invalid care, pets and gardening; and he did his best with the correspondents to Cupid’s Letter-Bag. ‘Minnie looks cold. Gentleman sends presents; Minnie refuses them. Nevertheless, the gentleman perseveres...Minnie has a wilful mind’. A Busy Courtship In 1855, in between persuading a male reader of the ‘Englishwoman’s’ that essay competitions would not make a girlfriend unacceptably clever, and launching the ‘Boy’s Own Magazine’ (articles on Benjamin Franklin, catching a crocodile, weapons of war and the Gunpowder Plot), Sam was courting Isabella. He had met her in London, and he continued to appear in Epsom at fortnightly intervals despite a cool reception by Henry Dorling. After their marriage in 1856, they returned from a Continental honeymoon to live in a villa at Pinner. Isabella Helps Out Within a few months Isabella had taken over 10 FEBRUARY 2018
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the household hints and cookery columns in Sam’s magazine. She added a third on childcare - after all, she had been accustomed to looking after a new brother or sister every year, and the arrival of her own first baby did not interrupt the flow of work. Within a month of her debut she had evolved a characteristic style - brief, blunt and clear, supported by epigrams or proverbs, but rejecting the flowery diction with which Sam spun out his editorials. Women And Work Isabella and Sam Beeton worked together, but this was traditional. Women of her generation had few rights (something her husband cared about more than she did) but they were expected to work. One in ten traders in Isabella’s Epsom was a woman waggoners and a blacksmith as well as dressmakers. Her aunt Lucy ran the Post C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 1 2
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Office for 34 years and on retirement handed it on to her daughter. It was assumed that a wife would help run her husband’s shop or workyard, and Isabella simply treated Sam’s publishing office at Bouverie Street in the same way. An Erudite Cookery Book Isabella spent three years planning the ‘Book of Household Management’, and had it issued in parts along with the ‘Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine’. Sam assured readers that every recipe had been personally tested, and offered prizes of gold and silver watches to those who could drum up more subscribers. Isabella, anxious to show some general knowledge, researched diligently into the number of sheep in England and the feasibility of making cloth out of Jerusalem artichokes. The work was a success even before it came out in book form.
Discovering Cookery Apart from a training in German pastrymaking, which she received at finishing school in Heidelberg, and some subsequent lessons at Barnards the confectioners in Epsom, Isabella had never needed to do the cooking herself. For the book, she worked out what was necessary and then went through, testing, with a new recipe each day. Only one recipe in the book (from the Baroness de Teissier at Woodcote Park) has an Epsom connection, and there is no local interest evident in the anecdotes which pad its pages. All this research was done in three years of hard work at Pinner. Isabella’s Strengths Isabella was not an innovator - most of her recipes, though she had tested them herself, came from earlier books, and her only introduction was the idea of listing ingredients at the head of each dish. Other people were also writing guides to the
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kitchen. There was a ready market for these among the middle classes, since young women were now expected to break ties with their own family when they went to build a new suburban home. Nervous newlyweds, managing house for the first time, had only to refer to the right page of Mrs Beeton for instructions on how to pay morning calls or fix the duties of a housemaid. The Secrets Of Organisation The ‘Book of Household Management’ was the best-organised publication of its kind. There had been other works on the same subject - the first guides on how to run a household were composed in the Middle Ages - but none of them had the same cool efficiency. Isabella had watched her mother cope with eighteen children and her father manage 250,000 racegoers, and she knew the secrets of organisation. These are to get up early, moderate your feelings, understand
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accounts, cost and plan each item in advance, and allocate clear duties to your servants. Success – And Tragedy Meanwhile arrangements had been made for including fashion plates in the magazine. These were to be produced in Paris, so Isabella and Sam set off to interview contacts there. For every outfit illustrated in the plates, a pattern was supplied on request, ready cut and tacked. In 1861 she was called in to edit women’s features for a new venture, the ‘Queen’. Three years later she helped plan a girl’s magazine, the ‘Young Englishwoman’, and early in 1865 while correcting proofs for the ‘Dictionary of Cookery’ gave birth to her fourth child. Shortly afterwards puerperal fever led to her death. Published courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk
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EPSOM BID PASSED usinesses in Epsom have backed a
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"I would like to thank everyone who has
project set to bring £1.5 million of
supported these proposals, the voters first and
investment to its commercial sector.
foremost, but also the other members of the
A majority of firms backed the plan to set-
steering group who have put in hundreds of
up an Epsom BID (Business Improvement
hours of work over the last 12 months to get us
District) having been voting for the past month.
to this position today and I’d also like to thank
It is hoped the backing will allow the BID to
our BID consultant Michelle Baker at Regen
"improve the Epsom experience, increase
Management and Epsom & Ewell Borough
footfall and enhance business performance".
Council for supporting us along the way.
Of the businesses that voted 85% voted in
Projects will include a brand and identity for
favour. The money will come from each
Epsom, marketing and promotion to draw in
business paying a 1.5 per cent levy on the
new customers, a programme of year round
rateable value of each company. “I am
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absolutely delighted that so many businesses have backed the plans that we put together," said Laura Sims, Chair of the BID project and Manager of Marks and Spencers. "The BID represents a really bright future for Epsom and by working together, we will be able to achieve great things for the town with
These will be funded by the levy which will be paid annually. Among the BID's first tasks will be to recruit a BID manager, secure office premises and draw up detailed operating plans for the first 12 months. For more information and to view the 5-year
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expense to the Council Tax Payer. A council spokesman said: “Fly-tipping is a blight on neighbourhoods and we will take action
Mitcham man whose failure to exercise proper
against perpetrators. Not only will we pursue
care resulted in the dumping of waste on Epsom
anyone physically dumping material, we will also
Common, one of Surrey’s largest nature reserves.
take action where we have evidence that
Lee Nicholson was prosecuted and received a
someone has failed to exercise a duty of care in
£2,000 fine and driving ban for his involvement in
disposing of their rubbish. Individuals and
the illegal disposal of waste at the local beauty
businesses should always check that whoever
spot and which, as well as a nature reserve, has
they get to clear waste is licensed, and should
additional protection as common land and as a
obtain a waste transfer note. We urge anyone who
Site of Nature Conservation Interest. The waste
witnesses fly-tipping to help us catch these
was discovered in March 2017 and the fly tipped
criminals by giving us as much information as
material had to be cleared and disposed of at the
possible via our website”.
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SCARECROW COMPETITION 2018 he great scarecrow competition returns again as part of this year's Herald of Spring, 10 March 2018. Local primary schools and youth groups are invited to enter our competition and be inspired to create a scarecrow on this year’s theme of Mother Nature. Scarecrow criteria: ・Entries must be a lady scarecrow . Perhaps one famous in history such as a Suffragette. ・Props may be used with the scarecrow. ・Scarecrows must include some plant material which can be living, fresh or dried. ・They should be no taller than 1.8m tall and be able to withstand all weather conditions. ・The use of recycled materials is encouraged. Scarecrows must be brought to Bourne Hall on Wednesday 8 March 2017. The scarecrows will be judged by the Mayor of Epsom & Ewell on Saturday 10 March 2018.
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PRIZES 1st place £100 vouchers of your choice 2nd place £50 vouchers of your choice Further information available from David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF Tel 020 8394 1734. Email: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
FISHING FOR MEMBERS psom Angling Society is a local angling society established in 1888,130 years old this year and have a good portfolio of venues. We offer well maintained fisheries aimed at the pleasure angler and are currently enjoying a membership in excess of 120 which includes many retired folk who enjoy a quiet day in the company of like minded members. We organize several fun matches
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throughout the year and our venues,excluding rivers, can be fished for a full 12 months so giving real value for money. We are a membership only club and therefore have much more control and use that to the benefit of our members. For further information visit www.epsomas.net Bill Barker, Hon.Secretary Epsom Angling Society
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N E I G H B O U R H O O D WAT C H A S S O C I AT I O N
PROTECTING AGAINST SCAMS his is the third in a series of Neighbourhood Watch articles warning people about scams and the things they could do to protect potentially vulnerable friends or relatives. Scam emails that seek to obtain personal and bank details and phone calls offering computer assistance are familiar to most people but many still fall victim to them. Unfortunately individuals may let their guard down when they have been distracted by some other major event in their lives or when the scam attempt coincides with something they were actually expecting. Thus anybody can fall victim to a scam and there should be no shame in reporting it. Scammers often include an aspect of urgency in their fake offers to get their victims to take a quick and less considered decision. Some banks allow as much as £50k to be transferred instantaneously. Nationwide Building Society is trialling a system whereby some accounts can have a special inbuilt delay to allow potential victims to have second thoughts after consulting friends or relatives. Other banks may allow this if requested. The typical sum lost to investment scams is of the order of £20k. An individual, who still has what the law terms mental capacity, can choose to give a relative or even a friend a Third Party Mandate on a specific bank account. This might be a step before the granting of a Power of Attorney which can apply to all financial transactions. Having the Mandate and would enable the
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relative or friend to monitor events on the account so they can check with the account holder if they see anything unusual. Many telephone and email scam victims are in older age groups and, when they discover they have been conned, they can lose confidence in themselves and are 2.5 times more likely to have to go into care during the following 12 months. Romance and Employment Scams also typically involve online or telephone contact but are aimed at a wider age group. Romance scams are particularly pernicious as they prey on vulnerable people seeking companionship and can have devastating effects on the victims who lose what they thought was a genuine relationship as well as money or valuables. Employment scams typically include the payment of upfront fees for starter kits or the use of premium rate phone lines for advice and training. If you or a relative has been the victim of a scam, then you should report this to the Police using the non-emergency 101 number or online reporting mechanisms. If you are aware of a failed attempt at a scam this can be reported to Action Fraud, the agency that monitors trends in frauds and assesses the likelihood of a successful prosecution before deciding whether to pass details to local Police or Trading Standards as appropriate. Action Fraud can be contacted online or via 0300 123 2040. Mike Fox, Secretary Surrey Neighbourhood Watch Association 01737 350452
TH E S U N N Y BA N K T R U ST
KATE’S STORY he Sunnybank Trust supports people
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with learning disabilities through a range of services. Most of the charity’s work is performed by
volunteers. Kate volunteers with the Sunnybank Trust as a Citizen Advocate. She supports Margaret, who Kate describes as a ‘fantastic woman with a wonderful sense of humour’. ‘I wanted to volunteer because I wanted a change. I have volunteered throughout my adult life and I missed the satisfying feeling it
annoying when you want to get something positive organised. If I could say anything to potential
gives you. I chose Sunnybank because I
volunteers it would be to let them know I had
thought the advocacy role sounded interesting
no experience of interacting with people with
and something I could do!
learning disabilities when I came to
As a volunteer I try to ensure that my
Sunnybank; it would appear that it is not
advocacy partner is being looked after in a
necessary. (Sunnybank offers regular training,
way that I would like to be taken care of. I visit
support and information sessions to ensure all
her twice a week; once for about an hour to
our volunteers are confident and informed.) All
check her post, inform her of any
you need is the desire to spend some time
appointments. The second visit is to help her
with wonderful people and try to help them in
get on the transport to the local day centre. I
any way you can - I can tell you that family and
will also contact her family and friends to alert
friends are so appreciative of having someone
them to anything that needs attending to on
who has their loved one's best interest in
her behalf. (The amount of time a Citizen
mind. It is a very satisfying feeling to be
Advocate spends with their advocacy partner
appreciated for seemingly so little'.
depends on the person’s individual situation –
We’re always on the lookout for more
for some it’s only an hour a month, for others
volunteers, so if you’d be interested in
it’s an hour a week.)
becoming an advocate (or any of our other
Margaret is a fantastic woman and I am
roles) then please get in touch with Felicity via
very fond of her. She has a wonderful sense of
enquiries@sunnybanktrust.org or visit our
humour. I really enjoy visiting her each week;
website www.sunnybanktrust.org
she makes me laugh each time! The best bit about volunteering is the feeling that I am making a positive difference in someone's life. The challenging bits are the frustration I sometimes encounter when trying to get things done to help Margaret; bureaucracy and funding issues can be 24 FEBRUARY 2018
All names have been changed for confidentiality.
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FROM HORSEBOXES TO UNIVERSAL CREDIT Why a charity set up to deal with wartime challenges is working as hard as ever.
s war seemed increasingly inevitable in 1938/39, politicians, local government and civil servants began to think about the challenges likely to be faced by ordinary people placed in an extraordinary situation. How would families and businesses be affected as men and teenage boys were called up? In the event of bombing, how would authorities deal with the consequent needs for housing, and how would they care for children and dependents affected by casualties? How would separated families keep in touch with each other, and how would those who needed financial help know their entitlements and how to claim allowances or pensions? The network of Citizens Advice Bureaux were established as a national initiative, with a call put out for volunteers who would
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be able to deal sensitively with clients who were often suffering from shock and confusion. They also of course needed sufficient skill and tact to deal effectively with the numerous central and local offices providing support, and the inevitable stream of new guidance and regulation which was issued to help deal with the new situation. Epsom & Ewell were one of the first areas to benefit, with the new Bureau founded on the day War broke out. In those early days volunteers worked flat out to help bomb victims, organise the evacuation of children and support patients at a military hospital. Even horse boxes were occasionally used to take the service to the many individuals and families who needed it. Much has changed since those early C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2 8
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days, but the Borough still benefits from volunteers and a few paid staff willing to provide their time and skills supporting individuals and families who may feel they can no longer cope with the pressures on them. Even in these days of mass information, the most pressing problems can often be those where an individual is simply not aware of the support available, or cannot find out how to seek help. Cases can often be very complex, involving interactions between Government Departments, the local authority and other bodies, and can seem baffling especially to those who seldom need to deal with such bodies, or who do not find it easy to use IT. Recent cases where our Citizens Advice advisors have been able to help include • A client with a young family facing an eviction notice • A client with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder needing help to claim a Disability Living Allowance • A client who had worked as a carer in a Nursing Home for 25 years, but was victimised by a new employer. It is often very clear that without timely intervention by our advisers a problem could have escalated, and we are often able to step in in time to avoid evictions or actions by bailiffs. So, nearly 80 years after the Bureau was established, Citizens Advice is still helping well over 3,000 clients a year. Over half the issues discussed relate to benefits and debt, with the next most common issues being housing and employment. We expect the combination of public sector cuts and new systems such as Universal Credit to ensure that the demand for advice from those affected will continue and may well rise. The regulations may have changed, 28 FEBRUARY 2018
but the need remains for support to ordinary people wrestling with complex problems affecting crucial aspects of their lives. Though the Borough Council and some other bodies provide support, Citizens Advice is a charity and depends crucially on donations and funding from individuals and business. We estimate we need to raise £5 for each client we advise, with much of this money spent to ensure that our volunteers are properly supported with access to accurate information, excellent training and access to all their needs in dealing with a range of government offices. We have an active fundraising group, and for 2017/18 we are also fortunate to have been selected as one of the Mayor’s chosen charities, and we enjoy working with the Mayor’s other two charities on a range of events. Readers may be interested in supporting us directly by one of or next two events: • buy cakes for social justice! at our Great Legal Bake @ Metrobank, Epsom on 12 Feb • sponsor our walkers on the 10 kilometre Great Legal Walk, London on 21 May (for more details, see www.caee.org.uk/fundraising) or by attending one of the Mayors Charity events • A meal sponsored by El Patio restaurant on 27 February • A Fashion Show with opportunities to buy at a discount at St Joseph’s Epsom on the 19 March • A coach trip to Cambridge on 21st April • A Ball at Epsom Race Course on 5 May For more details, please visit: mayorscharitiesepsom.org.uk/events.html
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WHAT’S ON The Tower - Escape, Imprisonment & Execution Saturday 10 February 1pm to 2.30pm Discover the dark bowels of this great Royal palace and the stories of those held prisoner there, from Ranulf Flambard Bishop of Durham who in 1128 became the first to escape the Tower, to Katherine Howard wife of Henry VIII in 1542, Guy Fawkes in 1606, and John Felton the assassin who murdered the Duke of Buckingham in 1628, as well as Carl Lody the German spy who was executed there in 1914. Discover their lives and deaths and those of others who passed through Traitors Gate. Cost £5 per child. Contact: David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF. Tel 020 8394 1734. Email: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/ BourneHallMuseumClub.html WW2 -- A Children’s War Wednesday 14 February 2pm to 3.30pm. Be prepared with gas mask training and air raid drill, learn what happened after a bomb fell like this one in Waterloo Road, discover how to put out one of the fire bombs that were dropped in their tens of thousands on Epsom during the war. Try to play fag cards like wartime children, discover the size of your sweet ration, and master a paper puzzle to find the hidden pig! Write a postcard home after being evacuated. Cost £5 per child. Contact: David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF. Tel 020 8394 1734 Email dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/ BourneHallMuseumClub.html 30 FEBRUARY 2018
EWELL HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION Spring Show Saturday 7 April 2.30 to 4.30pm Blenheim School, Longmead Road, Epsom KT19 9BH, fully accessible venue Transport – 418 bus (between Epsom and Kingston) Ewell West Station (Waterloo Line) Free Admission - all welcome, free parking, a raffle plus refreshments with delicious homemade cakes. Displays of spring flowers, cookery, craft & design, photography and floral art plus plants and garden sundries for sale. Website: www.ewellhortassn.co.uk Email: eha_details@ewellhortassn.co.uk An illustrated talk: ‘Growing for the Kitchen’ by Paul Patton Tuesday 13 March 2018 8pm to 10pm, following the AGM at 7.30pm Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell KT17 1UF fully accessible venue.Public transport: Buses 293, 406, 467, 470 & E16. Nearest station Ewell West (Waterloo line. Parking: on-site car park, evening parking fee 40p. Cost: Free admission includes refreshments, visitors very welcome. Website: www.ewellhortassn.co.uk Email: talks@ewellhortassn.co.uk An illustrated talk: ‘Buckets of Colour’ by Ian Clemens Tuesday 10 April 2018 8pm to 10pm Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell KT17 1UF fully accessible venue Public transport: Buses 293, 406, 467, 470 & E16. Nearest station Ewell West (Waterloo line). Parking: on-site car park, evening parking fee 40p. Cost: £3 members, £4 visitors includes refreshments and raffle. Website: www.ewellhortassn.co.uk Email: talks@ewellhortassn.co.uk
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