OUR SUPPORTERS
We're immensely grateful to everyone who has given their time and skills to support LCH in many ways.
Wates Group , Pica Floorings Ltd and Wooden Floors UK have gifted and installed a new wooden floor in the café.
The Community Foundation for Surrey has given us a grant that means that both the Friday Film and Family Feast are now fully funded for the whole of 2025.
Thanks to an award of £1,000 from Surrey County Council's Warm Welcome Fund, everyone who visits the Advice Café between 1 November 2024 and 31 March 2025 will be offered a £5 Pay it Forward voucher to spend in the café.
Other thank yous to:
Alan George for an air fryer.
Wates for their work in the garden.
Pot Roastery for coffee.
Unilever for soaps and Quakers porridge pots.
The Community Fridge for an orchid.
"The team in North Leatherhead are such a fantastic, enthusiastic and skilled bunch! And lovely with it too!"
Surrey County Council
We're very excited about the new gate from the recreation ground into the café which was paid for by the Leatherhead Lions.
Toyota (GB) plc has given us a grant of £1,500 to support the Friday Film.
The UKSPF Community Hall Energy Efficiency Grant Scheme has awarded us £5,400 to pay for new double glazing in the Hive.
Councillor Tim Hall has funded the Family Feast for six months and helped with the costs of the Clements Mead event.
"Please also pass on our thanks to the team at LCH - our lunches were scrummy and so reasonably priced! It was lovely to witness the hubbub down at LCH and its use by a broad cross section of people – it is a very welcoming space with “the best ever tuna paninis''!"
Mole Valley District Council
The National Lottery Community Fund is paying for Linda, our part time community chef.
The Community Foundation for Surrey's grant means we don't have to increase our café prices in line with cost inflation.
Your Fund Surrey Small Community Fund sponsored by County Councillor Tim Hall paid for the storage shed.
Toyota donated the eggs for our Easter egg hunt.
"We all need to get behind the Leatherhead Community Hub and help it to reach its full potential. It is by the community and for the community, and exactly what the community needs and deserves. Those involved have proved their authenticity, their worth, their ability and their ethics again and again, and they know how to skilfully stretch funds to ensure absolute value for money. This project is a shining light right at the heart of things, and a great, plump seed full of promise and hope. The seed has been sown with love and imagination, but we all need to feed and water it – if we help it on its way, it can blossom and we will all benefit in so many ways. LCH is all about the good things in life, and about the life we all say we want – we just have to help make that life happen."
Lucy Quinnell (Managing Director of Fire and Iron Gallery)
A team from the local NHS Trust did the Conqueror Lands End to John O'Groats virtual challenge to raise £650 .
A big thank you to everyone who volunteers with us - we couldn't do it without you!
“North Leatherhead is not well served with facilities, a combined 'Hub' building is a real boost for the various organisations that work within the community. I have supported the refurbishment of the former NLCA building with two grants from the Surrey County Council Local Allowance. Various businesses and funds have also supported it already. But we need to continue supporting it. Can you help? Every little helps!"
Tim Hall (Surrey County Councillor for Leatherhead and Fetcham East)
Local video production company Liquona worked on the outside of the building.
50 volunteers from Toyota and Nationwide helped redecorate the main hall.
14 volunteers from Just Group and Leatherhead Rotary helped out in the garden.
Local food and drink marketing agency jellybean gave us two Mac computers.
"The team behind the LCH have work phenomenally hard to create a warm, welcoming and creative space in the heart of the North Leatherhead community and I am so excited to see the plans they have to develop the Hub yet further. Their vision for and commitment to the families of North Leatherhead is an inspiration to us all and one which I wholeheartedly support. I hope you will too."
Keira Vyvyan-Robinson (Mole Valley District Councillor for North Leatherhead)