Shepperton Matters

For Harvest Festival, The Burlington Care Home in Shepperton has been collecting non-perishable food items in aid of the local food bank, ‘Bags of Food’, affiliated with the Jubilee Church. We would like to thank all of our families and team members who have donated so generously for this really im-portant cause and helping our […]

Local artist Peggy Pickering was delighted when the painting of poppies at the Tower of London, which she had donated, was auctioned at the Royal British Legion in Sunbury bids started at £200 and in the end it raised £560 which will go to the poppy appeal. How lovely to take the trouble of suggesting

Dramatize Tea Room is bringing a little Christmas Spirit to Charlton Village!  With community spirit at the heart of this little tea room, the team invite you all to send your letters to Santa in their post box and re-ceive a personalised letter in return.  They simply ask for you to include a pre-stamped envelope

Themba is a Shepperton-based amateur youth theatre group which raises money for Compassion UK, a charity which helps to bring children out of poverty.  Elf Jr is based on the popular movie Elf but with the addition of song and dance, in a specially-adapted 70 minute show. It is such fun and will definitely leave

With the focus recently on the environment and biodiversity, this is the time to see what we can all do to encourage wildlife at the same time as making our communities beautiful and attrac-tive places to live. Community projects to reclaim unloved land have sprung up and you may have seen wild flowers embellishing previously

Merry Christmas everyone!  Although Big Tree Night was cancelled this year, a small group of volunteers have been hard at work over the last few months – taking orders for Christmas Trees from our High Street traders – so that the street can light up at the beginning of December.  CHRISTMAS in Shepperton has not

Thank you to Laurie Burrell for sharing his experi-ence on November 14th when he had the opportunity to attend the Royal British Legion Cenotaph Parade as a representative of the Soldiers Sailors Airman Family Association (SSAFA) of which he is a Surrey Branch member for Spelthorne and Runnymede.  Our instructions for the day from SSAFA

George Drewett recently turned 100 (5/10/21). The story of his life is an interesting one.  George was born in Croydon. He was one of the last children to be sent to the workhouse, before its transition to local authority care. His father came back from soldiering in the Great War with a Military medal and

By James Slade  A year ago I set myself a bucket list of things to do before I’m 40 (I’m 39), and one of the things on my list was to run a full marathon. In the past I’ve run a few half marathons, but straight after each one I’ve always thought to myself, “there’s

By Monica Chard  At the end of 2018 Shepperton Matters made a plea on behalf of the Shepperton Allotments who were looking to raise funds to build a toilet block. With outside space and fresh air being ever more im-portant for our mental well being, it was a much needed facility to enable allotments holders