A PUBLIC meeting to discuss the future of Kingsdale Resource Centre for the Elderly is to be held on Wednesday, July 7 at Haslemere Methodist Church.
The meeting, which will start at 7 pm, has been organised by the action group formed by Kingsdale residents and their relatives to fight the proposed closure announced in May by Surrey County Council.
Lucy Charman, who is co-ordinating the action group, said the meeting was open to anyone interested in keeping Kingsdale open for the "long- term future".
The meeting will be attended by SCC officers, as well as members of the social services committee and Haslemere county councillor Christine Stevens.
"Ten of the relatives will each be raising a specific point with SCC, and we have supplied officers with a list of some of the questions so they can provide us with the relevant facts and figures," Mrs Charman explained.
"We are trying to tackle this from a human point of view and have spent a lot of time contacting local nursing homes to see whether they would be prepared to take social services residents and whether these residents would be provided with the same facilities," she said.
Mrs Charman continued: "We are looking into the possibility of setting up a charitable trust to run Kingsdale ourselves and we have contacted the Anchor Trust about taking over the running of Kingsdale. They said that they wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
"We are also in touch with the action group formed to fight the closure of another SCC home, Priory Court in Ewell, which is organising a similar campaign to ours."
She added: "We have had a good response to the letter-writing campaign we launched last month.
All these letters have been copied and sent off to SCC."
Letters opposing the closure should be addressed to Surrey Social Services and sent to Action Group, c/o Kingsdale, Lion Green, Haslemere GU27 1LD.