Runnymede Borough Council

Attention Chertsey, Addlestone, and Egham town centre businesses! Our Runnymede Business Awards are now open for 2025 entries. The Best Town Centre Business Award is waiting for you. Nominate yourself for a chance to be recognised for the good work you do or service you provide in your town. The 2024 winner was Allure Blinds from Chertsey, if you want to bid to be this year’s winner, entry is free! Get started at https://lnkd.in/eqfsw5Je

There’s going to be changes to our car park charges starting in April, including a small £2 evening and £3 overnight parking fee and nominal increases for day time parking. Here's why we need to do it: ➡️ As far as possible, Council services must cover their costs, including our car parks. The increases will be needed to do this. Also worth knowing: ➡️People using our open spaces car parks will now be able to park for three full hours for free, before needing to pay a small charge. This means many people using them to watch local sports matches will still not need to pay. ➡️We’ll be introducing half an hour’s free parking in two locations in Egham. ➡️We’re setting up a new process to allow free parking for some community events and we lift the charges in some car parks for some high profile events

📢 Have Your Say on Surrey’s Future. The way local government works in Surrey could be changing for the first time in 50 years! We want to hear your thoughts on a proposal to create new unitary councils that could shape the future of local services. 🗳️ Take part in the survey now: https://lnkd.in/ex9UMeDB 🗓️ Deadline: Sunday 20 April

Do you love cooking at home? Buy seasonal produce, cook up delicious meals, and please *use your food waste caddy for any scraps*. Let’s keep those leftovers out of our bins and put it where they belong! Find out more about our food waste service here: https://lnkd.in/ez-tDp4S For tips on food waste, try out these helpful sites: ▶See how to plan shops and portioning with advice from the Surrey Environment Partnership: https://lnkd.in/e7Mr9qTb ▶Try a range of recipes and a food calculator at: www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/ ▶Find out how to eat seasonally: https://lnkd.in/eAgzdaaA

We’re delighted to have launched the 2025 Runnymede Business Awards this month! Hot on the heels of our Civic Awards, the Runnymede Business Awards celebrate the local business community of our borough. All businesses can enter from individual shops and new businesses to established traders and medium sized companies. There are nine categories to enter in: ➡️ Growth Award ➡️Sustainability Award ➡️Entrepreneur and Innovator Award ➡️Community Hero Award ➡️Best New Business ➡️Best Town Centre Business ➡️Best Neighbourhood Business ➡️Employer of the Year ➡️Outstanding Contribution (individual or team) The launch event took place at Royal Holloway and the awards evening will be held there too, so to be in with a chance of winning, start preparing your entries now! Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eqfsw5Je Grateful thanks also to our sponsors for the 2025 awards: 🔷Royal Holloway, University of London 🔷Avery Collection 🔷Brooklands Technical College 🔷Coast to Capital 🔷Community Life magazines 🔷The Corporate Chef 🔷Stanhope-Seta 🔷Thorpe Park 🔷Dennett Boat Builders

We’re proud to be supporting Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025! Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. This week, we are taking time to deepen our understanding of neurodiversity—both individually and as an organisation—while celebrating the strengths and opportunities that neurodivergence brings. Over the past 18 months, we have encouraged colleagues to use our reasonable adjustment passport to document what helps them work at their best, feel included, and receive the support they need. Many employees have shared that this has been invaluable in starting open and productive conversations with their managers about how work can be adapted to enable their success. By fostering awareness and providing practical tools like the adjustment passport, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #NeurodiversityWeek #NCW #ThisIsND

Congratulations to everyone involved in our Civic Awards, which were a real success again this year. Huge credit goes to our small staff team who organise the event and make it such a great celebration. This work is all carried out in addition to people’s daily duties. Their contribution speaks to the culture we are creating here at Runnymede, where our people take pride in their work and being a part of a successful and community-minded borough. Well done to all involved.

We had 170 nominations for our Civic Awards this year, and the judges had the difficult decision of shortlisting just 46 of them. Everyone that was shortlisted for our Civic Awards impressed our judging panel - it's not just about the winners. That's why today we want to give a shout out to those who were Highly Commended; the people and organisations who are doing so much to change and inspire those around them. Arts Group of the Year: • Susan Roberts Academy • Runnymede Art Society Young Sportsperson of the Year • Adam Letras • Sophie Clark • Tiana Hall-Duffy Sports Coach of the Year • Ian Selley, Abbey Rangers Football Club • Kyle Francis, Runnymede Raptors Basketball Club Health and Wellbeing Award • Cheryl Richards and Emily Perrier • Tiny Terrapins Swim School Sports Volunteer of the Year • Sue Blesset, Chertsey Bowls Club Sports Club of the Year • Core Judo • Runnymede Raptors Basketball Club Environment & Sustainability Award • Chandos Road Toad Patrol • Runnymede Junior Rangers Making a Difference Award • Chrissy McCourts, The Hope Hub • Valerie Verity Young Volunteer of the Year • Cameron Maddison-Butcher, 1st/4th Addlestone Spinney Hill Beaver Colony, 1st Virginia Water Beavers • Charlie Smyth Volunteer of the Year • Annie Moore, Holme Farm • Catherine Foster, The Thursday Club Volunteer Group of the Year • Hope Café at St John’s Church, Egham • Royal Holloway Tea Parties Project Service to Community – Individual • Mrs Chambers - The Lollipop Lady • Monica Kitchenside, Addlestone Community Centre Service to Community – Organisation • County Care Independent Living - Addlestone Project Café & Enterprise • St John’s Community Fridge Volunteers Well done for being Highly Commended and thank you for what you do! Go to our website to find out more about our winners and highly commended: https://lnkd.in/eBAcsW37

#IWD at RBC This year we wanted to mark International Womens Day by hearing what some of our wonder female colleagues had to say to their younger selves.... lots of advice for all of us..... and something we will keep for colleagues to refer to the whole year through. Thank you to all those invovled Chrissy Ellera, Shamshaaade Wilde, Amy Gibson, Wen Zhao, Emma Lyons, Stephanie Broadley, Kate Hall, Viktoriia Stetts, Katy McManus, Katie Walker, Iqvinder Sokal and Sarah Herbert one of our fabulous HR BP's who created this video... enjoy https://lnkd.in/emDKPM3q 👇

We're pleased to be at the District Councils' Network conference today to talk about how we’re helping to create the environment which supports our borough’s economy. Our staff are also on hand to discuss the leadership and culture programme we've been delivering. This aims to create an organisation where everyone enjoys working and is proud to be a part of, so we can achieve the best for residents and businesses. Our Co-Leaders are also at the conference to talk about how our four co-leader model is working.