The following may be of interest small businesses in and around Hambledon. More details are available on the Waverley Borough Council website, and on its social media feeds.

Businesses that provide services in person to customers can now apply for the Local Restrictions Support Grant.

Hambledon Parish Magazine has traditionally been paid for in cash, usually left in a box at the village shop.

But times have changed, and the Coronavirus pandemic has drastically altered the shop’s operation. We are currently in another lock-down and the future shop procedures cannot be predicted with any certainty.

The exchange of cash for products and services has declined and the magazine’s editors have had to think seriously about alternative methods of payment.

First, the good news:  the price of the magazine will remain unchanged in 2021.  That means 70p per copy and £7.50 for an annual subscription (plus £18.00 if you want your magazine posted to you). 

When lock-down was introduced last March, a successful appeal for additional deliverers meant that, from then on, the monthly magazine was hand-delivered (or, in a very few cases, posted) to every subscriber.

Additional copies, plus a cash box, will remain available in the Church and at the Village Shop for those who need to purchase a one-off copy. But all regular readers are asked to pay up-front.

First of all, please consider if you could pay your subscription on-line.   This applies to all current subscribers and anyone else who would like to take out a subscription for 2021.  Payment details are as follows:

Sort Code 60-09-04, Account no. 62028499, Account Name Hambledon Parish Magazine.

Reference: your full name please.

For those of you who do not wish to use online banking, please make out a cheque for £7.50 (plus the cost of postage, see above, if applicable) payable to Hambledon Parish Magazine.  Put your cheque into an envelope with your full name/address/telephone number on it and leave it at Hambledon Village Shop (ask for it to be put into the Parish Magazine tin under the till counter).  If you are self-isolating and need your cheque collected, please telephone magazine co-editor Jane Woolley on 01428 684213.

Please take these steps now to ensure your magazine arrives at your doorstep next year.

Hambledon Cricket club have been chosen as a project for the CO-OP Local community Fund. If you are a member of the CO-OP please select the cricket club as your chosen cause so we can raise vital funds.

Not a member then please sign up here:

Thanks for your support 

As we enter another lockdown there will be some changes to the way the shop operates.

The two most impactful changes for customers are the suspension of the shop’s Eat-In Deli service and the shop’s closure at weekends.

From Thursday 5th November 2020:

1. The Post Office will operate 5 days a week, Monday to Friday, 09:30-12:30.
2. The shop will operate 5 days a week Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 13:00.
3. We will continue to offer a free delivery service 5 days a week, Monday to Friday with a cut-off of 10am for same-day deliveries. The shop’s product list and more information on how the delivery service operates can be found by clicking here.
4. We will offer a Personal Shopper service to walk-up customers 5 days a week, Monday to Friday, 08:30-13:00. We will pick and bag your shopping list while you wait and take payment by card outside. 
5. The shop will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
6. We will operate a reduced Take-Away Deli service 5 days a week, Monday to Friday, with cut-off for made-to-order food at 12:30 
7. There will be no Eat-In Deli service and customers will not be able to use the shop’s picnic tables.

We hope that by operating in this way we will help to:

• Keep people in their homes as much as possible
• Minimise the number of unnecessary journeys
• Minimise the number of interactions between different households
• Minimise the duration of interactions between different households

Thank you for your patience and continued support of Hambledon Village Shop.

Unfortunately The Merry Harriers has once again had to close its doors to customers as we go into lockdown. They will however be offering takeaway meals for collection on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Orders should be placed by phone on 01428 682883 on the same day you wish to collect your order and payment made by card at the time you place your order

This year, in common with just about everything else, responding to Poppy Day is going to be difficult.  No house-to-house collections are allowed; no-one can wave a tray of poppies at you until you put some money into a tin.  So we are going to be dependent on trays and collection boxes at a few static collection points across the village – and on people having some actual cash in their pockets! – or online giving. 

The Hall Hunter Partnership, owners of the Tuseley Farm soft fruit business, is inviting Hambledon residents to view its latest proposals to extend polytunnel covering.

The business, which grows strawberries, blueberries and raspberries on the farm that occupies land between Tuesley Lane and Hambledon Road, and is partly within the Hambledon boundary, has already previewed its plans to local parish councils and is in pre-application discussions with planners at Waverley Borough Council.

The village website’s “Sunday Reflections”, a popular feature that appeared throughout the Coronavirus lock-down period and beyond, are now available in print as a lasting account of life in our small village under extraordinary circumstances.

The Reflections have been collected together and reproduced in a booklet which is available from Hambledon Village Shop from Monday (October 11^th). This includes contributions reflecting almost all aspects of village life during the pandemic, and with a foreword provided by local MP and village resident Jeremy Hunt.

A vacancy has occurred on Hambledon Parish Council and a formal process has now begun to find a new council member.

This follows the decision by Mike Parry to stand down after more than eight years on the council.

In the first instance, the parish council has informed the local election authority, Waverley Borough Council, which has issued a notice that allows for a 14-day period for ten or more local electors to request an election.

This notice can found on this website’s Parish Council page in the document library under Legislation and Planning, or by clicking here https://www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk/?page_id=166 

If no such request is made, the parish council can then begin a process of looking to co-opt a new member to fill the casual vacancy. Applications will be invited. 

Details of this procedure can be found here https://www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Councillor-co-option-process.pdf

A few local artists are participating in an open studio event taking place across Surrey. Surrey Artists Open Studios is a fantastic opportunity to meet Surrey based artists and makers, to find out more about their work, and buy directly from talented artists, continuing to support them at this challenging time.

More information can be found by clicking here.