Effingham Residents Association
Effingham Residents Association (EFFRA)
A new Befriending service for people over 65 has been setup by The Meeting Place (Bookham), which is a registered charity. Their website is at themeetingplace.org.uk/ For more information, or to make a referral please contact: Telephone: 07596 837063 email: Continue Reading
Traffic lights will be installed on the A246 Guildford Road, from Monday 8 February to Wednesday, whilst BT carry out work to replace a decayed telephone pole, east of the pedestrian traffic lights and Norwood Road junction.
P/T Parish Administrator/Rector’s P.A. for St Lawrence, Effingham with All Saints, Little Bookham. To work as part of a friendly team by assisting the Rector and Church Wardens in the administration of both churches in this growing Christian community. They Continue Reading
Brilliant business ideas can be brought to life with a GBC free online course. The 10-day course, in collaboration with the PopUp Business School, runs from Monday 22 February to Friday 5 March to give residents a new way of Continue Reading
Members of the St Lawrence’s Effingham with All Saints Little Bookham are clearing a small area of land on the Street opposite the Methodist Church to create a new community orchard. The project will cost up to £4,000 in addition Continue Reading
Guildford planning officials have recommended that the planning application for the Church Street site should be approved. Because 49 letters of objections, including strong objections from EFFRA and the Parish Council, and 32 letters of support were received, the planning Continue Reading
Berkeley Homes have announced that they want to build an extra 110 houses on land in the Green Belt, and adjacent to the Effingham Lodge Farm site that has already has building approval for 159 houses and the Howard of Continue Reading
Crocknorth Road will be closed for approximately one day to enable Kelly Group to carry out poling and/or cabling works from the south-eastern property boundary of “Octagon Lodge”, north-westwards for a distance of 400m. These works are anticipated to be Continue Reading
Please help keep Effingham free of litter during the lockdown. Organised litter picks are not possible under the restrictions but some residents are doing litter picking in their roads during their daily exercise. When restrictions ease EFFRA hopes organised litter Continue Reading
Charities, community and voluntary organisations can now apply for grants of up to £5,000, through the new Aspire Voluntary Grants Scheme. The grants are to help fund projects that support older, more vulnerable and less advantaged residents. Cllr Julia McShane, Continue Reading