Our Wellbeing Team is involved with initiatives such as Surrey Youth Games and supporting the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival which takes place every October.
Grant funding will continue to be used this year to support a free and inclusive out of school activities programme for children and young people as well as free wellbeing walks.
We continue expanding services to support our senior residents.
In addition to traditional installers who fit lifeline alarms and guide you through the equipment, Mole Valley Life now provides self-install alarms for those who want to maintain independence, peace of mind, and have access to emergency assistance if required.
These alarms can be set up effortlessly without the need for professional help and come equipped with fall detection and two-way communication to allow connection with an operator at the touch of a button.
At a time when community, voluntary and not-for-profit organisations need financial help the most, we’re glad to continue funding opportunities in 2024/25.
Eligible groups in Mole Valley have the option of applying for a range of grants which help them to carry out valuable work in local communities. More information can be found here.
We’ve invested over £4m in 2024 to repair and improve Dorking Halls. The work included fitting a new, long-term ceiling in the Grand Hall, improving ladies’ toilets and electrical works.
his planned refurbishment will protect the heritage of the venue and help evolve it for a greener future.
This will not only reduce costs but also the Hall’s carbon footprint. Details of improvements works can we viewed on the Dorking Halls website.
We will continue to promote new affordable housing within the district through our negotiations with developers on new housing developments and promoting opportunities for our partner housing associations.
In 2024/25 in addition to the purchase of additional emergency housing units through the Local Authority Housing Fund.
We are also financially supporting the new Kingston House Gardens Development in Leatherhead which will result in an additional 36 affordable housing units.
Due to Surrey Police withdrawing their support from long-established CCTV monitoring partnerships with Surrey councils, we had to review the existing provision of public space CCTV cameras in the district from 2024 onwards.
Informed by the results of a six-week public consultation carried out in the autumn 2023, a decision was made by Cabinet at the end of October 2024 to support the provision of record-only public realm CCTV in Mole Valley. Next steps will see the existing camera network upgraded and the number of locations and cameras agreed moving into the new year.
