Projects in your community

Foxhills Community Camp
Runnymede Borough Council have partnered with the Hayton Charitable Trust (Foxhills Country Club and Resort) to deliver summer camps for young people in need of support during the summer holidays who are living in Runnymede.

For four weeks during the summer, we provide fully funded summer camp provision to local families. The children who attend are referred in via an agency, which include The Runnymede Family Centre, Surrey Young Carers and The Family Support Team.

Breakfast, lunch and a take home dinner pack are provided and we offer a range of enriching activities which include sporting activities like skateboard and scooter sessions, archery and football. Not only that, we have drumming sessions, animal encounters, science experiments and lego building. 

Some of our sessions are delivered by The Big Hat Bushcamp, a longstanding delivery partner based in Lyne, who provide our young people the freedom and opportunity to participate in campfire cooking, wood carving, orienteering and even blacksmith activities.

If you’re interested in becoming a referring agency partner, email communitydevelopment@runnymede.gov.uk

Club4
The Government has funded local authorities across England to run fully funded HAF (Holiday Activity & Food) camps for children who receive benefit-related free school meals.

These camps – known as ‘Club4’ in Surrey – run in the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays and offer healthy food and fun activities for eligible children aged four to 16.

Active Surrey manage the funding for this scheme, and Runnymede Borough Council applies for funding to run the camps each year.

These camps are predominately for children on free school meals and you will find out about these camps, including booking information and codes, via your school.

For more information on all the Club4 camps available locally, visit Club4 camps

Subsidised Holiday Activities
During most of the holidays and half terms, we provide fully funded camps for young people in the borough. This may be through our Foxhills or Club4 scheme above, but also provided through our Youth Development Fund.

The Youth Development Fund allows us to give young people the opportunity to attend local holiday camps with no cost to themselves.

Pooley Green Youth Project
Runnymede Borough Council and Surrey Police are pleased to launch the Pooley Green Youth Project for summer 2024.

Runnymede Borough Council is pleased to have partnered up with Hey Girls to provide access to free sanitary products in several community venues and buildings in the Borough. These period products are for individuals to access if they cannot afford sanitary products and in situations where girls, women and people who menstruate have their period unexpectedly.

Recent data shows that period poverty in the UK has worsened over the past twelve months, during the cost-of-living crisis, which ultimately has a significant impact on an individual’s health and wellbeing.

A report from Action Aid in 2022 found that:

• 1 in 8 women had recently struggled to buy menstrual products, either for themselves or a dependent
• Of those who struggled to afford menstrual products, 75% had needed to prioritise spending money on food and 49% needed to prioritise spending money on gas and/or electricity.

In 2021, Surrey County Council launched their Period Dignity campaign across the county, working with the charity Binti International.

Surrey County Council have made the collection of free period products available from libraries (including Addlestone, Chertsey and Egham), as well as from their council offices across the County (e.g. the Dakota building in Weybridge and Quadrant Court, in Woking).

Runnymede Borough Council has currently committed three years of funding for this project, until 2026. 

Venue locations are below and will be regularly updated: 

• The Hythe Centre, Egham Hythe
• St Paul’s Church, Egham Hythe
• The Forest Estate Community Hub, Englefield Green
• The Lit, Egham
• Chertsey Hall, Chertsey
• Chertsey Museum, Chertsey
• Runnymede Borough Council Civic Offices, Addlestone

• Arts Partnership Surrey (APS) is long-standing group of local councils working together to create arts for Surrey that meet local social, economical, learning and health needs.
• Runnymede Borough Council is proud to be a part of Arts Partnership Surrey, which has valuable community links and a track record of delivering high quality art projects in the county. These projects include Surrey Dance 21, community theatre tours and the ‘Culture Seeds’ project, which supports starter projects from artists to be delivered in their local areas.

For more information, visit Arts Partnership Surrey