The Ruxley Foundation

Tickets Remaining for our Cream Tea 🍰

On 6th July 2024, 2-4pm, we will be hosting our Cream Tea The Horton Epsom

Please book your tickets at https://mayorscharitiesepsom.sumupstore.com to support three great charities: The Ruxley Foundation, Epsom and Ewell Puffins and Epsom and Ewell Phab.

It’s going to be a tea-riffic event! ☕️

Tickets need to be purchased by 30th June.

Enter our Photo Competition to raise money for the Mayor's Charities: The Ruxley Foundation, Epsom and Ewell Puffins and Epsom and Ewell Phab.

Send in your best picture of the borough of Epsom and Ewell to be in with a chance of having your photo featured in our calendar. Entry is £1 via https://mayorscharitiesepsom.sumupstore.com
Submit your entry to [email protected]

Entry deadline 15th September. Calendars will be available to buy from November!

On Saturday 6th July, we will be hosting our first Mayor's Charities 2024/25 event, our Cream Tea at The Horton Epsom. Please book by visiting https://mayorscharitiesepsom.sumupstore.com

We look forward to seeing you there! We will be raising money for the Epsom and Ewell Mayor's Charities - Epsom and Ewell Puffins, The Ruxley Foundation and Epsom and Ewell Phab

We are pleased to support this initiative.

⭐️ FREE FUNDED SEN PLAY PARK SESSIONS ⭐️

Happening throughout September at Better - Rainbow Leisure Centre and Spa supported by The Ruxley Foundation 🙂

🟢 Every Thursday 16:30 - 18:00.

🟢 Limited spaces available - book here 👉 https://bit.ly/3PXfTEt

This year everyone has shown amazing community spirit and I know in the lead up to Christmas people want to do what they can for others with this in mind I wanted to let you know that Truly Giving needs your help 🤗

Truly Giving is a local not-for-profit organisation working with social services, children's agencies and charities to provide individualised gifts to children and young people in the local area.

Their aim is to ensure no child goes without at Christmas due to your kind support. This year they are pleased to be working with multiple charities and agencies to reach as many children and young people as they can.

You can find out more about the organisation here 👉 https://www.trulygiving.co.uk

How it works and the list of presents that need to be purchased can be found here 👉 https://www.trulygiving.co.uk/how-it-works

Donation stations can be found here 👉 https://www.trulygiving.co.uk/drop-off-locations with new points All Things Nice, Jess and the beanstalk and Yo Sarnie Epsom just added to the list....if you are a local cafe / restaurant open for take aways and would like to get involved by taking in presents please message via the Epsom and Ewell Families page 📧

I'm very pleased that Epsom and Ewell Families is helping to spread the Truly Giving message to make Christmas special for all 🎁🎄

Dee xx

We are proud to support this.

Email [email protected] to put your orders in.

Calendars are £7 each.

The Ruxley Foundation sponsored the Horton Park Calendar Competition - we are pleased to announce:

Horton Country Park charity calendar competition has now closed and the winners have been announced.

"We had around 450 entries and have loved looking at each and every one of them. Preorders for calendars have already started as we will only have a limited number so please message us or email us at [email protected] to put your orders in.

Calendars will be for sale at £7 each but as a thank you to anyone who entered the competition, to you they are just £6 each!!"

When the chips are down, do you know where to find mental health support? Check out the range of self-help and preventative tools at your fingertips to help you beat the winter blues.
For a range of information, tools and support to pick your mood up see: https://www.healthysurrey.org.uk/mental-wellbeing/adults

Healthy Surrey

💛 EPSOM AND EWELL - WE STAND TOGETHER AWARENESS DAY 💛

Thank you for the support so far, messages, shares, posters in shop windows, offers of help from those that want to continue to see Epsom and Ewell a welcoming place for all, that sees everyone as equals...

💛 HOW CAN YOU HELP TODAY? You can pledge your support for the first Epsom and Ewell - We Stand Together BANK Holiday Awareness Day by either sharing our posts or by posting the image 👇 along with your pledge of support:

“Pledging support for the Epsom and Ewell - We Stand Together BANK Holiday Awareness Day!

You can BANK on me / us to be anti-racist, to 💛

You can get involved to by spreading the word and posting too."”

***Tag the page

💛 WHY? Because raising awareness helps to inform and educate people which puts on us on a path to change negative attitudes and opinions!

In addition to the above you could also:

💛 Read a book to educate yourself
💛 Watch a film or documentary
💛 Have conversations with friends and family
💛 Make a promise to yourself to call out racism when you see it, to be anti-racist

Thanks again 🙏

✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
..BANKING on you to be anti-racist

We are proud to support this.

It has been 10 weeks since the Epsom and Ewell - We Stand Together project was created, a logo designed, a website in progress, press coverage, local MP and councillor backing and support from Epsom and Ewell Borough Council and volunteers, lots of calls and meetings had...it’s just the start that will lead to progress taking one step at a time 💛

Next week we kick off with the first Epsom and Ewell - We Stand Together Awareness Day on BANK Holiday Monday, WHY? because it's simply not enough to not be racist we are BANKING on you to be anti-racist and speak up when needed! 🙏

💛 Awareness leads to conversations
💛 Coversations lead to thinking
💛 Thinking leads to understanding
💛 Understanding leads to change
💛 Change leads to progress

We hope that you will support this mini campaign by pledging your support and sharing the posts you see over the next week across social media.

Look out for posters in shop windows from business owners supporting the campaign, banners in the town and more. If you are a local business that would like a poster please send a dm and we will get one to you 🙌

Help us to

Thank you to our sponsors The Ruxley Foundation, Minuteman Press Epsom and We Built Your Website Ltd and supporters for all your involvement and input so far, this is about the community pulling together! ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Who we work with:

The Ruxley Foundation works with other organisations to support people and promote our charitable purpose. We depend on referrals from trusted local institutions to reach the right people with our grant making.

Our primary focus is helping children and young people. Many of our referrals come from schools with an intake from the Ruxley area. We have funded SEND school trips, alternate provision facilities and provided grant support for voluntary contributions that make some school activities possible.
We have also provided funding for the Epsom & Ewell food bank and are in contact with the East Surrey Poverty Truth Commission.
For more information - https://ruxley.foundation/who-we-work-with/

Who we work with – The Ruxley Foundation HomeWho we work with Who we work with The Ruxley Foundation works with other organisations to support people and promote our charitable purpose. We depend on referrals from trusted local institutions to reach the right people with our grant making. Our primary focus is helping children and young peo...

What would you do if you received a call from someone asking you to withdraw and hand over cash to a courier? Would your answer be any different if the caller said they were a police officer, a detective or from your bank? What if they gave you a crime reference number and asked you to call back on a number they provide? 🤔

Fraudsters’ clever tactics mean anyone can fall victim to this type of fraud. They tend to impersonate your bank or the police and ask for your help with an investigation, by withdrawing money and giving it to a courier they send so they can “check” it’s real or look for fingerprints. They can call from what looks like a genuine number and will keep your landline open so that when you try phoning someone to check the call is real, you’re actually speaking to the same criminals.

Our top tips to protect yourself from courier fraud are:
• Act with care if you receive an unexpected call
• Never give cash or your bank card to a courier or police officer
• Always check your phone line has properly disconnected before making another call – try calling a good friend first, wait five minutes or use a different phone
• Never share your PIN number or enter your PIN into a telephone
• Never transfer funds into an account on the instruction of an unexpected caller, even if they tell you the account is in your name

Please share this information so that we can help protect people from this despicable crime.
For more information, click here: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/a-z-of-fraud/courier-fraud

Who we work with:

The Ruxley Foundation works with other organisations to support people and promote our charitable purpose. We depend on referrals from trusted local institutions to reach the right people with our grant making.

Our primary focus is helping children and young people. Many of our referrals come from schools with an intake from the Ruxley area. We have funded SEND school trips, alternate provision facilities and provided grant support for voluntary contributions that make some school activities possible.

We have also provided funding for the Epsom & Ewell food bank and are in contact with the East Surrey Poverty Truth Commission.

For more information - https://ruxley.foundation/who-we-work-with/

Who we work with – The Ruxley Foundation HomeWho we work with Who we work with The Ruxley Foundation works with other organisations to support people and promote our charitable purpose. We depend on referrals from trusted local institutions to reach the right people with our grant making. Our primary focus is helping children and young peo...

Horton Country Park - photography competition.

We are grateful for the mention in the Borough Insight! There's a link in the comments if you are able to donate.

Epsom Digs for Victory on VE Day The Mayor of Epsom and Ewell helped volunteers distribute groceries of fruit and vegetables on VE Day last week to vulnerable residents isolating…

UPDATE: Thank you so much - we have hit our £1000 target. The donation page will stay open for the duration of the lockdown.

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The local community needs your help.

The effect of Coronavirus means that many people are unable to go shopping for food. Many others are finding it much harder to access food, or are struggling to feed themselves because of the economic impact of Covid19.

The Ruxley Foundation is helping.

We are supplying wholesale deliveries of fresh fruit and vegetables to the Epsom & Ewell Food Bank, to the local Community Hub and helping elderly and vulnerable people access food deliveries.

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/ruxley-delivers

Ruxley Delivers The effect of Coronavirus means that many people are unable to go shopping for food. We are delivering fresh fruit and vegetables to elderly and vulnerable residents. Please donate. Help your community.