With top TV quizmaster Chris Tarrant as its Vice president, it makes perfect sense for Princess Alice Hospice to launch 'LET'S QUIZ'
. The charity is calling out to their local community to organise a quiz night event during the coming months.
The Hospice is hosting one of the first quiz nights with a staff fundraising evening, the event will see nurses battling fundraisers and doctors competing with the housekeeping and catering teams for the accolade of the 'Brightest Department'.
Quiz nights are very simple fundraisers, you simply need a venue, be it a pub, school hall or even your dining room and a pack of questions, answers and some competitive guests, the Hospice will provide the quiz pack - including questions sheets, answers, posters for publicising the event, balloons etc - and organisers simply need to find some quizzers.
Four friends who all work in Weybridge have broken a new record and raised over £1,500 by visiting every Premier League ground within 24 hours on Saturday, January 30.
The trip, called 4 Fellas Fantastic Football Odyssey saw Craig Morgan, 28, Dean Roe, 22, James Slade, 27, and Alistair Trump, 24 visit all 20 stadiums in a bid to raise money for the emergency Woking and Sam Beare Hospices appeal.
The quartet who all work at pharmaceutical company IDIS, kicked it all off by driving to Portsmouth's Fratton Park at five in the morning, and working their up, reaching the most northern team, Sunderland then heading back to London.
The head of Fullbrook School in New Haw has defended a decision to close the school during the recent heavy snow.
Anne Turner, principal of the school in Selsdon Road, said the weather conditions were unprecedented and closing was the only option. Few staff had managed to get to the school and its grounds were icy and dangerous, she said.
South African Waldo van Wyk, of New Haw, volunteered his Nissan 4x4 to help deliver meals to elderly people during the worst of snow.
He helped the Runnymede Community Meals Service deliveries to very hard to reach properties in the borough where elderly people remained housebound.
Most services at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals are running as normal.
Staff at the two sites have been braving the snow and ice to make sure they can get into work and keep clinics and appointments running as smoothly as possible.
Refuse and recycling collections across Runnymede are still suspended due to the snow and ice.
The services were suspended yesterday (Wednesday January 6) and Runnymede Council has decided that the conditions on the roads are still too bad for collections to resume.
Services at Runnymede Council have had to be cut due to the snow sweeping across the borough.
Staffing levels at the authority are down to 70% and some services are having to be temporarily cut while the bad weather is here.
Refuse collections, kerbside recycling and garden waste collections have been suspended, and as has the Dial-a-Ride transport to day centres.
But the meals on wheels service is still running using 4x4 vehicles from the council's depots and day centres are open to provide meals.
A spokeswoman for Runnymede Council said: "Road and weather conditions will be reviewed early Thursday morning, when a decision will be made regarding Thursday's refuse collections.
"Contact will be made with the users of the Dial-a-Ride service when it is resumed.
"The snow is due to get worse so we may have to let some staff who have travelled long distances leave early, so there will be a slightly reduced service from 3pm.
"Due to the current weather conditions and expected minus temperatures tonight, both leisure centres will be closing early tonight at 6pm."
Council chiefs will assess the services again when they have seen what the weather is like on Thursday January 7.
The following schools have closed due to poor weather conditions:
New Haw Community School, New Haw
St Mary's Cof E Primary School, West Byfleet
The Marist Catholic Primary School, West Byfleet
West Byfleet Community Infant School, West Byfleet
West Byfleet Junior School, West Byfleet
Ambulance chiefs have declared a major incident in the wake of heavy snowfall across the area.
Patients are being warned to stay away from Accident and Emergency at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and bosses at South East Coast Ambulance Service are warning people to stay indoors if they can.
Sue Harris, director of operations at SECAM said: "We are prioritising life-threatening calls above all others, and due to the adverse conditions, it is unlikely that we will reach patients with minor injuries and symptoms in worst hit areas.
"We urge people to stay indoors unless it is absolutely necessary. Driving conditions are extremely hazardous and we want to reduce the risk of injury on the roads as much as possible."
A rare variety of historic apples found in Surrey are being used in a new heritage drink.
The new drink features 1,000 varieties of apples including the Claygate Pearmain, first discovered in 1821 and the Byfleet Seedling, first grown by George Carpenter at West Hall, Byfleet in 1915.
