Support Services and Information in the Community

Charities Offering Low Cost Furniture
We have produced a leaflet detailing charities offering low cost furniture, aimed at people on benefits or low income. These organisations also accept good quality second hand furniture that can be offered for sale. The low cost |furniture leaflet can be accessed from this website, or please contact the |Voluntary Sector Support Officer.

Shopping Services and Transport Services
Available to support Elmbridge residents, please take a look at our |shopping services leaflet.

Message in a Bottle
This is a scheme designed to encourage people living on their own to keep their basic personal and medical details in a common location where it can be easily found in an emergency. Elmbridge Borough Council together with Woking Lions Club have adopted the idea and are supplying bottles to anyone who needs them throughout the area. Full details of how the scheme works can be found on |Woking Lions Website.

Supplies of bottles and forms are available from Elmbridge Borough Council |Centres for the Community. Elmbridge Borough Council is pleased to support this scheme which provides a valuable additional safeguard for local residents in the event of a medical emergency. For further information on how the scheme works locally please contact |Community Support Services

Legal Advice
Find out about |free legal advice for voluntary and community groups

Gardening Service
MDHS and Elmbridge Borough Council offers a gardening service, which is managed by MDHS Household Services, to tidy and maintain gardens of people living in the borough of Elmbridge. This service is for older people and/or people with disability who are finding it difficult to maintain a tidy garden. There is an hourly rate for this service.

All new customers will receive a Gardening Service Pack with an application form and information on the scheme as well as useful consumer information provided by Surrey Trading Standards. |Please contact Community Support Services to request a pack, or you can download the individual documents in the pack below.

Documents included in the Gardening Service online pack are:

• |Gardening Service leaflet
• |Gardening Service Letter
• |Gardening Service Referral Form
• |Dealing with Doorstep Traders
• |Services for Retired People and |amendment slip

Also included in the pack is a booklet produced by Surrey Consumer Support Network and the Surrey Trading Standards Service which offers advice on consumer rights, home security, debt and pension rights. |The Helping Hands booklet can be viewed from this page, or a full colour copy can be sent out on request.

If you would like more information then please |contact Community Support Services or contact |MDHS directly.

• The |Surrey Assembly are pleased to announce that their website is now live. They invite all voluntary, community and faith groups to have a look and let them know what you think.