The Wey Forward March - May 2021

Mission Supper

Saturday 20 March 2021 at Trinity Woking Postponed until next year

New date

Saturday 5 March 2022

Congratulations Ryan In this year’s Queen’s New Year’s Honours List, Ryan Kelley, a member of Godalming United Church, was awarded the MBE “for services for social care in Surrey”. Ryan has worked for Whitmore Vale Housing Association for over 40 years during most of which time he has been its CEO. The Association was set up in 1971 when adults with a learning difficulty began to be moved out from the large “mental sub normality” hospitals into the community and began with one

residential care home in Hindhead. Since then, the organisation has grown and now provides various types of accommodation throughout South West Surrey

ranging from residential homes, sheltered accommodation to supporting people living

independently in houses or flats, all for adults with a wide range of learning disabilities and autistic needs. Ryan was instrumental in setting up and still remains a member of the Surrey Care Association. SCA provides support, information and training for Surrey providers of social care in all its categories. The Association also represents the views of Surrey care providers to local and national government. Ryan is probably better known in the Circuit for, over the years, masterminding the transportation of 59 containers full of mainly educational and medical supplies to the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Ghana. Sylvia Kelley

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