To be the modern, dynamic, sustainable organisation of choice for young people, offering fun and challenging opportunities.

The Green Hub Project for Teens is a local community project aimed at promoting the wellbeing of teenagers’ mental health through social and therapeutic horticulture.

In partnership with the GPs, schools, youth agencies and parents, we enable teen referrals to enjoy nature, while gardening alongside and interacting with our skilled volunteers and other teenagers.

Our goal is to achieve positive, measurable outcomes for teens’ mental wellbeing, self-love, active lifestyles, social interaction and inclusion, as well as the development and application of a range of useful life skills.

We are a small band of enthusiastic volunteers who lead walking tours in Guildford town centre. 

Our Mission
Our mission is to engage communities in tree planting to cultivate a lasting legacy of environmental sustainability.
We envisage a future where communities are inspired to implement natural solutions to climate change.

We believe community activities, like Roots for the Future’s are at the root of curbing the global issue of climate change.

We are working to deliver exceptional care in a welcoming and safe environment for patients at Royal Surrey Hospital.

From providing state of the art equipment and redeveloping wards, to investing in staff development and funding innovative research, our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Working collaboratively with medical and support staff, we fund projects that make the biggest impact on the 260,000 people we treat each year – from babies, to children and young adults, to older people.

At TALK, we support people with aphasia by:

• Enabling you to practise all aspects of communication

• Familiarising you with strategies to aid conversation

• Helping you to rebuild confidence and self esteem

• Encouraging you to become socially independent

• Providing you with information, advice and ongoing support

• Helping you to live positively with aphasia following stroke

• Working closely with local speech therapists, the Stroke Association and other organisations supporting people with aphasia after stroke

Aims and Objectives

We are a registered charity whose volunteers aim to provide a forum for debate about the issues affecting our town and borough.

1/ We are interested in following issues that affect our town and surrounding area:

• Conserving the best of Guildford Town, Urban Area, Villages and Countryside
• Promoting high standards of planning and architecture
• Influencing the pace and type of development for the future
• Raising the public awareness on issues related to our Built Environment, Heritage and Future
• Identifying, integrating and considering matters that impact across the borough e.g. Transport Flows.

2/ Our Scope

• Geographically we concentrate on Guildford Town and Urban Area but maintain an active interest on major matters affecting the whole of the borough and beyond.
• We recognise areas in the borough have active and effective local groups whose work we don’t wish to replicate.

3/ We have some key principles:

• We recognise Guildford and environs will continue to develop and evolve to meet the needs of the population, and this needs to be managed.
• Guildford should remain a proper town, not just a commuter town for London, so we need to support economic activity, our world class educational facilities, and provide a wide range of public facilities e.g. Theatres, Entertainment Venues, Galleries, Meeting Places, Public Realm etc.
• The area needs to be ‘competitive’ with other South East areas in the Arc formed by Cambridge – Oxford – Guildford – Redhill - Ashford.
• Guildford and environs should aspire to be a leader in preserving heritage assets and surrounding countryside whilst enabling vibrant and sensitive development.
• Environment will be a key consideration including:
• Measures to encourage modal transport shift, pollution reduction, reduction in traffic congestion.
• Measures to encourage alternative energy, management/recycling of waste and flood protection.
• The town and its surroundings need to be better linked in a sustainable manner, including making public transport accessible and attractive.
• Guildford and environs should be a borough for all and thus should provide affordable accommodation for all age groups.
• We will actively seek to collaborate with other relevant groups on matters of common interest.

Our mission is to provide a confidential counselling service to pupils in schools with emotional, social or behavioural problems and to enable them to function more effectively in school or at home.

We believe:

• Everyone, whatever their age, should have the opportunity to express their feelings and concerns.
• Everyone has the right to be listened to in a non-judgemental way.
• Everyone should have the opportunity to be assisted to improve troubled relationships, to come to terms with loss and other life changes and to discover their own intrinsic self worth.
• Counselling provides time to share problems and concerns in a non-judgemental setting.
• Counselling can provide the opportunity, in a confidential setting, to talk with the Counsellor in a way that could lead to the release of long-suppressed information that may be causing distress.
• Counselling can help children and young people build positive self esteem and gain insight into developing more effective relationships.

We aim, therefore, to offer a continually improving service to increasing numbers of school children.