Services in the Community

• Reporting issues to Guildford Borough Council
• Reporting Issues to Surrey County Council
• Local Services
  • Coffee Morning
  • Medical Centre (VMC)
  • Send Help
  • Ann Haynes Grant

Reporting Issues to Guildford Borough

You can report various issues in your area to Guildford Borough online. These include amongst others:

• Fly Tipping
• Missed bin collections
• Noise, Litter and Grafitti
• Problems with your garage

Please note that road problems fall under Surrey County Council.

You can access a useful A to Z of Guildford Borough and Surrey County Council contacts and links in the "How To" page.

Reporting Issues to Surrey County Council

Highways and road maintenance, including potholes, comes under the responsibility of Surrey County Council. They also take care of pathways, pavements and street lighting. 

You can make Roads and Transport related reports to Surrey County Council online for:

• Potholes
• Highway Problems
• Faulty Streetlighting 
• Pavements
• Overgrown vegetation or grass cutting
• Drainage and flooding
• Salting and Gritting

For Footpaths, Byways and Bridleways, you can report issues online. The Wardens Reporting User Guide provides useful guidance on using the online tool.

You can access a useful A to Z of Guildford Borough and Surrey County Council contacts and links in the "How To" page.

Local Services

Coffee Morning

St Mary's Church organises a coffee morning on the third Monday of each month in the Church Rooms from 10 am to 12 noon.  (Send Help can arrange transport for you.)

More information is also availble on the St Mary's website.

Medical Centre

The Villages Medical Centre is both Send and Ripley's doctors' surgery. There is also a Boots Pharmacy on site and is located on

Send Barns Lane
Send
GU23 7BP

The centre also provides an online appointment booking and subscription renewal service via their website.

The centre telephone number is 01483 226330 and further contact information can be found in their entry on the Local Directory.

The Medical Centre is open:

Send Help

Send Help is a local volunteer group available to anyone, young or old, living in Send, Send Marsh and Burnt Common, to assist residents with:

• Transport to the surgery
• Filling in forms
• Transport for medical appointments
• Help with shopping
• Odd jobs
• Visiting lonely or housebound people
• Other needs - if in doubt - please ask

How Send Help works (please give sufficient notice - 2 or 3 days if possible)

• Dial  225255 between 10am and 12 noon on a weekday
• You will hear a message giving you the telephone number of the Duty Officer
• You then call the Duty Officer who will take all the details needed from you
• The Duty Officer will find a volunteer and call you back after 12 noon with the name of your volunteer

Further contact information can be found in their entry on the Local Directory.

Ann Haynes Grant

The Ann Haynes Trustees meet in October to administer a grant to support young residents in education who:

• Have recently left school
• Are starting or continuing a course in course in September
• Live in Send
• Are under 21

The grant varies according to funds and how many people apply and fit the criteria and averages at about £100.