Yearly Archives: 2015

Paralympic Medalist Helps Celebrate New Short Breaks Service

Six-time Paralympic gold medalist opens Surrey Choices’ new Short Breaks service in Banstead.

Paralympic wheelchair athlete, David Weir, cut the ribbon to Banstead Short Break Service on Wednesday 20 May to celebrate the opening of the new service with Surrey Choices staff and customers.

Surrey Choice’s Banstead Short Breaks service provides high quality respite care for adults with a wide range of needs from physical disabilities, learning disabilities, complex needs, autism and elderly care. Customers coming to Banstead Short Breaks will have their own individual care plan, a dedicated link worker, and the opportunity to attend Surrey Choices day services, as well as experiencing new activities of their choice.

Come for tea this Dementia Awareness Week 2015

A Vintage pop-up tea room is being set up in 25 Swan Lane, Guildford to celebrate Dementia Awareness week from 18 -22 May, this is in association with Tea and Memories at Surrey Choices Lockwood. All the Furniture, Furnishings and Crockery will be transported from the Cosy 1940’s Tea Room at Lockwood Day service to…

3 things we found useful to practise mindfulness during Mental Health Awareness Week 2015

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a mind and body based training that helps people to change the way they think and feel about experiences, especially those that are particularly stressful.

The New Janet – a Shared Lives Story

The sky’s the limit for Surrey Choices customers

Four Surrey Choices customers are flying high after completing a ‘life changing’ course that has seen them learn to pilot a plane.

Surrey Choices supports a range of people with disabilities to find the best care, activities and services for their needs across Surrey. It recently teamed up with the charity, Aerobility, to give four of its customers the chance to take to the skies.

Tea and Memories

Fashion for All

Our customers are now able to live the dream of becoming a original fashion designer in our newly created project in Staines. The DisStyle project aims to create a 100% original, eco friendly fashion label with no two designs exactly the same. The project will use donated fabric, clothes and rags to create beautiful and unique clothing. Designers will gain…

Linda marks four decades in the saddle

A Cranleigh woman has marked four decades in the saddle with friends at her local Riding for the Disabled Association.

Surrey Choices customer Linda Stonestreet, aged 63, started horse riding in her early twenties after attending the Lockwood Centre, in Guildford – and has enjoyed the hobby ever since.

Lively debating at Surrey Political Choices event

People with disabilities from across Surrey have been encouraged to use their right to vote in the forthcoming general election with the help of a leading social care provider.

Surrey Choices hosted a discussion at Nexus day service, in Sunbury-on-Thames, to allow customers the chance to find out more about the election, the voting process and the political parties involved.

Local councillors from the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats, Labour and UKIP met with Surrey Choices customers on Tuesday 24^th March, from 11am-3pm, to talk about what each political party represents and how politics impacts on disabled lives.