Repair Cafe 

The Horsley Repair Cafe opened its doors for the first time on 6 July 2024, at the Canterbury Rooms alongside St Martin’s Church. Items the team of local volunteers restored to working order include a vacuum cleaner, tree loppers, a coffee maker, binoculars, an earring, a paper shredder and a suitcase. Some items, alas, had the last rites read, meanwhile others were taken home by volunteers to undergo longer but hopefully successful treatment. Textiles, too, including a dressing gown were mended while the owner mixed with other ‘customers’ over coffee and cake. Donations for work done were gratefully accepted and the organisers extend their appreciation to the management of Horsley Towers for offering free car parking.

The Repair Cafe will be open for business on the first Saturday morning of each month so if you have an article of clothing that needs attention or some other item that requires coaxing back into life rather than going to landfill, then come along next time on Saturday 3 August.

West Horsley Blue Hearts

Surrey County Council is encouraging villages to preserve and enhance the natural environment through the introduction of the Blue Campaign for SCC which involves identifying suitable locations which can be left to grow wild and thereby increase biodiversity. Horsleys’ CAN has identified a number of suitable areas in the village at which decorated blue hearts have now been placed.

Terracycle

Teracycle offers free recycling programmes funded by brands, manufacturers and retailers around the world. Members of the public can set up a public drop-off location (a recycling bin in an accessible space) in their community in order to collect even more waste. Residents will be able to use interactive maps to find these locations and drop off their TerraCycle waste. Horsleys' C.A.N. is looking into working with a local company to support to provide a TerraCycle point within the villages.  

 Homes for Hedgehogs

We are looking to involve our your residents with this project to capture the 'hearts and minds' of potential local environmentalists. This Autumn we encourage you to build a home in your garden that is suitable for hedgehogs. A wealth of advice on how to build a hedgehog home is available on the Surrey Wildlife Trust website. And if you are lucky enough to spot a hedgehog in your garden the SWT encourages you to record it via its website.