Kingston Borough has the largest Korean community in Europe, with 10% of our population. Kingston Welcomes Korea runs from Thursday 30th July to Saturday 8th August 2015 at various locations across Kingston A party with a purpose – an arts festival with a trade fair. Korean dance and comedy companies at the Rose Theatre. Anglo-Korean concerts […]

Surbiton Wildlife Group is community-spirited and open to everybody who gets excited by the natural world around them.   Surbiton Wildlife Group are organising a community clean-up of Claremont Gardens in the centre of town. Activities will involve litter picking, pruning, weeding, mulch spreading and socialising! They need as many people to help as possible, so please go […]

Surbiton Food Festival will run from 2nd to 17th May 2015 and will include firm favorites such as: Sardine Festival on Sunday 3rd May in Claremont Gardens, with the famous landing the River Thames sardine catch at 3pm by Raven’s Ait. Surbiton Village Fete and Dry Hopped Beer Festival on Saturday 9th to Sunday 10th […]

After an initial litter pick in Claremont Gardens at the start of the year and an inaugural meeting last month attended by over 50 residents last month, the Surbiton Wildlife Group is really getting going. At a smaller meeting earlier this month, residents agreed a management committee and set up a constitution, so they can start applying for […]

Last year at the Surbiton Food Festival, the Kingston Pound was trailed.  This year it has moved to electronic money (in partnership with Surrey Save Credit Union) and can be spent at a variety of shops and eating places in Surbiton, with more signing up all the time. The idea behind the Kingston Pound is […]

A local resident is setting up a new community group – Surbiton Wildlife – with the aim of improving Claremont Gardens with bird boxes, litter picks, bee and wildlife friendly plants and improved pond. It wants to make the open space better for people and wildlife. Their first event is on 17th March 2015 at 6.30pm […]

Christmas in Surbiton has started. Great lights switch on last Thursday. Thanks to Surbiton Business Community, Council, Police, businesses, marshals and all other helpers.

Lib Dem run Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee (part of Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames) is again providing funding for community projects in Surbiton.  The funding is available to individuals, businesses, residents groups, clubs, community or voluntary groups who want to run a project to benefit local people. The deadline for applications is 24th October 2014 […]

Kingston Council will be running a week long festival to celebrate older people.  The festival runs from 4th to 11th October including a ‘Live Live Fair’ at the Guildhall on Monday 6th October.  More details will be available soon on the Council’s website.