Godalming Town Council is delighted to announce that Godalming’s Nightingale Cemetery has achieved a Gold award in the 2021 South & South East in Bloom competition and was also judged the overall winner in the Small Cemetery Category.  Equally pleasing is the Gold award for Eashing Cemetery in the Large …

From October 2021, the Haslemere Methodist Church will become an exciting “music hub” for the community. Not just evening concerts open to the public, but engaging with young musicians in local schools and the wider community. This ambitious programme is spearheaded by local musician Susan Milan, former Principal Flute of …

Tom MacInnes, chief analyst for Citizens Advice, said: “We know that this pandemic has put an enormous strain on people financially but our data shows that strain is also being felt in people’s relationships.” Visits to Citizens Advice webpage information on ending a relationship have been steadily increasing since 2019, …

The past year has redefined the meaning of ‘busy doing nothing’. Between lockdowns, cancelled holidays, and exercise limitations, people have flocked to social media to divert their attention away from the adversity that 2020 brought. As the good weather comes into fruition, and the UK slowly eases out of coronavirus …

“But just what is the Breathing Space scheme?” Council tax, rent and other forms of debt arrears will be awarded relief as part of the Government’s new “breathing space” scheme. If you’re eligible, you could get 60 days of breathing space where your creditors can’t: contact you take action to make you …

A Poem from Eastwick Road Church I have just eighty words- and as always loquacious Th’ available count doesn’t seem awf’ly spacious, However, I want to deliver a greeting: Hello and God bless you, I hope we’ll be meeting. At Eastwick Road Church I am newly in situ Arranging new …

As regular readers will know, we now have two GOGs, our Grumpy Old Git and Grumpy Old Gal, who occasionally pontificate on some of life’s irritations. Back in March, our Grumpy Old Gal had a bit of a rant about speech on the radio. This obviously struck a chord with …

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Kirsty Walden, a local Godalming resident, to celebrate International Women’s Day earlier this week, wanted to share her personal story to help others to talk about subjects which are often treated as taboo, but seriously impact their lives. This is Kirsty’s story, and like her, we hope that it will …

Late summer sun, slow change in hues of leaves whose days are nearly done, dues paid for the year, so they may either linger on, through autumn’s shifts, or drop tomorrow, an early gift to the earth below, and all the things about to grow in gardens, fields and water …

Don’t take our word for it – this is what 2 of our regular advertisers have to say about VantagePoint!: Andy Jones, A2B Pest Control Francesco Bartolomei, The Talbot Hotel, Ripley

We we very grateful to receive a lovely message from Jen Clay at Oakleaf Enterprises. As a VantagePoint team, we all joined into one of their wonderful quizzes in lockdown and had a great time – and raised money for this amazing charity. Support them if you can! www.oakleaf-enterprise.org

This poem was sent in to us by one of our readers, Peter Taylor           Warm May morning, pink azaleas alight, never been so bright before, so fiery so soon after winter’s wake (quite late this year). I toast my feet beneath a dodging sun, soaking …

A week’s sea cruise from Malta in June is not a proposition to be immediately spurned. It certainly contains elements of attraction yet also offers reasons to demand caution. While it is getting cheaper, cruising has never exactly been the budget choice and being contained in the middle of the …