Charity/voluntary

A conservation group will be doing coppicing work on Sunday, February 28 from 10am until 1pm.

The Egham & Staines Conservation Volunteers will be undertaking the work at Riverside.

From Station Parade, follow signs for the recycling centre and library and the group will meet in the car park. For more details call Andrew on 0208 977 4675.

The swinging sixties come to the village with a special night of music and dance on Saturday, November 21 at 8.15pm.

Dancing to the Touchstone Experience is organised by Virginia Water Community Association and includes a cold buffet.

Sixties fancy dress is optional. BYO drinks and glasses.

Tickets are £12 for members, £15 for non-members. For more details call Alison on 01344 842572.

Hundreds of poppy-wearers observed two-minutes silence at one of the most picturesque memorials in the county for Remembrance Day yesterday (Sunday, November 8).

At 11am, more than two hundred people made no peep as Reveille piped out and filled the grounds of the Royal Air Forces Memorial on Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, where the names of 20,000 service men who lost their lives fighting for their country are etched on its walls.

The Runnymede Alzheimer's Society hosted its first ever Memory Walk on Sunday raising hundreds of pounds for the charity.

The free event drew in between 40 and 50 participants who completed the four and half mile walk around Virginia Water lake.

A walk to raise funds for dementia sufferers takes place at Virginia Water Lake on Sunday, September 13 at 11am.

The Memory Walk 2009 has been organised by the Runnymede Alzheimer's Society to raise awareness and remember those who suffered or are suffering from the condition.

Sponsorship is not necessary, just turn up on the day and make a small donation. Meet at the lakeside car park off the A30. For more details call 01932 874060.

More than 60 walkers are expected to take part in a special walk to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society.

The Runnymede Memory Walk will take place on Sunday, September 13 at 11am at Virginia Water Lake.

A 'Memory Tree' at the event will give the walkers the opportunity to write down their personal memories, the reasons why they are walking or who they are walking for.

Revellers at the Pink Sapphire Ball in the ballroom at Wentworth Golf Club, on Saturday October 4 raised money for worthy causes as they danced the night away.

The event, organised by childrens hospice service, CHASE, was raising funds for CHASE hospice care for children and Breakthrough Breast Cancer and was attended by more than 200 people.

During the night numerous prizes were up for auction, including holidays, meals out and the eponymous, 3.77 carat pink sapphire. The night was finished off with a George Michael tribute act, joined onstage by tribute Elton John.

A group of 17 teenagers from Croydon came to Virginia Water at the weekend to raise money for poor and disadvantaged people.

They trekked 14 miles through Virginia Water Lake and Wentworth and their stamina and endurance was tested by various types of terrain in humid conditions.