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White Lodge Centre is a resource which seeks to support children and adults with disabilities and their families/carers in the Surrey area, by providing a range of flexible, creative and integrated services.

WIDE is a part of North West Surrey Association of Disabled People. It is a free, confidential information service covering the Woking area and is a member of the DISS network. Information can be provided on all aspects of disability and the service is open to anyone with a disability, their carers, friends, professionals or anyone with an interest in disability.

1. To provide support to all witnesses attending a criminal court.

2. To provide advice and information to witnesses and other agencies.

3. To provide pre-trial units to court.

To provide cricket for men, boys and girls to a high standard.

Woking & Surrey Heath Crossroads Caring for Carers is a specialist voluntary organisation providing support to carers in their own home, giving carers "time" to be themselves.
Charitable Object: To relieve the stresses experienced by carers and children & adults who have care needs as a result of disability, illness or age, by offering a high quality respite service through the provision of home based Carer Support Workers.

Social group for people who have suffered or are suffering from emotional health issues such as anxiety, panic attacks, depression and other health concerns. Meets every Friday 7-10pm.

Woking CAB aims to provide advice and assistance to local clients in all areas of social law and related matters. We have specialist caseworkers in Housing, Employment, Money Advice and Welfare Benefits, and we run an outreach service at the Maybury Centre. We can negotiate on our client's behalf with other people and organisations. If a client is housebound due to a disability or through being a carer, we can arrange a home visit.

Our advisers can represent you in many formal procedures like Social Security Appeals, Industrial Tribunals and in some courts. We can also help you prepare to represent yourself.

To provide quality education and training to the community.

To recycle furniture (including electrical goods) within the local community. Benefits include:-

- Reducing need for landfill sites

- Meeting needs of local people on limited budgets

- providing outlet for voluntary work in the community

To provide an affordable transport service to the community.

Offers confidential, short term counselling to any person over 16 years of age.  Our counsellors are all volunteers; they are experienced, qualified and supported by a professional supervisor.

The aims of Woking Cygnets are to help and support transgender community in Woking and Surrey and, we can help organisations with training on transgender issues.

WDF manages a biennial international dance festival (next festival 12 - 31 March 2007), the largest in the south of england, and an on going programme of innovative participatory community and educational dance projects. Our philosophy is that dance benefits, such as increased fitness & health and psychological benefits of an improved sense of well-being due to the social nature of most dance activities. Last year we engaged more than 2000 people in participatory activities.

Swimming club for elderly and disabled people; Wed eve, Friday evenings, Woking leisure Centre.

The Centre is at St. Andrew's United Reformed Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, Surrey GU22 7HA.
The Centre aims prinicipally to help children whose parents have separated.  Where there is no viable alternative, it offers a neutral place where children can enjoy contact with the parent that they do not live with, in a warm safe environment.

Woking Hospice exists to care for people with life limiting illness.  To offer them and their families support and care throughout an emotional and life changing period in their lives.

International Mission Statement: To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community incolvement and international cooperation.  Locally, this means we help needy families either materially or financially, as refered to us by local care organisations.  We run theatre trips for elderly, outings for deprived children, distribute christmas parcels, hold diabetic screening in town centre, collect used spectacles and hearing aids, peace poster competition, and message in a bottle are instances of what we do.

Deals with the following issues:  Neighbours in dispute, school bullying, parents of children with needs in dispute with their school. We appoint two mediators per case. They visit each party in dispute. They may arrange an all-party meeting with both parties in attendence and chaired by the mediators. All new mediators attend a six day training course.  Our Service is free.

Local Woking based charity which provides support, advice and activities for people with learning disabilities and their carers.  Specifically we run our Woking Family Adviser Service to give information and advice.  We also run two social clubs on Mondays and Fridays for adults with learning disabilities.

We provide social support for those living in Woking who experience mental ill health and emotional stress.

To run a miniature passenger carrying railway as a leisure activity for the benifit of the local community.

We also hold events which often benefit local charities including: Woking Hospice, Woking Rotary and the N.C.T.

Education visits to local schools are also part of our programme.

To offer information and support to all who are affected by M. S. in the area (Woking and District).

To develop and encourage young people aged 12 to 18 yrs to be responsible citizens using the traditions of the Royal Navy.  In the process they would develop life skills and valuable training.

The scheme provides manual and powered wheelchairs and scooters to anyone with a mobility problem.

To provide a weekly tape containing local news to visually impaired residents of Woking.

Helping young people build a future.

A national voluntary organisation for children and young people, aimed at building a world based on equality, friendship, peace and social justice.  There are four groups in Woking and five in Spelthorne, meeting weekly for games, music, drama and craftwork activities.  Regular camps, hikes and hostelling.

Direct access to night shelter offering eleven bed spaces, meals and advice with assistance to re-settle.  Lunch time café offering low cost meals to those on low - or no income.

There is no better way to learn about business than by actually doing it.

This is the thinking behind Young Enterprise's popular Company Programme, in which 15-19 year old school and college students run their own company for a year, supported by teachers and business advisers.

The students dream up a business idea and are then responsible for the management, production, sales, marketing and finance of their company - learning along the way those essential business skills that are so valuable to future employers.