Community Awards 2004
At Ashtead Village Day, last year's winner of the individual award, Christine Thorpe, presented the 2004 Rotary Community Service Awards to Dr Margaret Chilton and the Ashtead Common Volunteers. They were selected from fourteen individual and three group nominations.
Photo Dr Margaret Chilton Dr Margaret Chilton is one of the founders of Pitstop. Pitstop is a daytime drop-in centre for the homeless, unemployed and socially isolated, which operates from the Football Club in Leatherhead. She has helped to develop and extend its services and currently organises catering for the centre. She has also served as a magistrate, counsellor, prison visitor and on the Surrey Probation Committee. She was well supported at the presentation by users and fellow workers from Pitstop.

Ashtead Common Volunteers were set up thirteen years ago to help manage Ashtead Common. Numbering about 25, they meet most Thursdays and the first Sunday in the month. Last year they spent about 2700 man-hours on the Common, carrying out a wide range of tasks such as clearing scrub and trees to widen rides and maintain glades, making countryside benches, gates, horse barriers and way markers. Recently they prepared for the River Restoration Project, which plans to restore the Rye Brook to a more natural course.

Photo Ashtead Common Volunteers
Ashtead Common Volunteers
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See also the ashtead at Harvest 2003 magazine article Rotary Community Service Awards 2003
See also the ashtead at Harvest 2003 magazine article Rye Restoration
See also Local Support - Pitstop etc.
See also the Ashtead Rotary Club page
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