Youth club coming to the Royal Estate

She has been speaking to the young people of the area with the police, in a bid to give them something to do and to cut down on graffiti, vandalism, and animal cruelty.

Mrs Turner-Stewart said: "We spoke to the young people and asked them what they wanted to do and the Methodist church has come forward offering us their place.

"They said they would like cooking lessons and a place to play music, and the girls said they would like hairdressing classes, so we are looking for volunteers to make it happen."

Community workers from Surrey Probation are due to begin painting the church hall this week (next week) with £700 worth of equipment paid for by Ms Turner-Stewart.

Church workers have already cleared the graffiti off the building, but Ms Turner-Stewart has said the actual youth club probably wouldn't be up and running until Spring next year.

She said: "We have asked the kids that if we are going to do this they will need to stick with it.

"There's always something bad going on around here, and recently, kids were catapulting pigeons off people's roofs.

"There is a community centre in Leacroft, Staines, and Kennilworth Road, Ashford, but they are quite far apart and quite a lot of the kids aren't going to travel there. Hopefully this community centre will give them something to do."

Mrs Turner-Stewart also hopes to put on cookoffs and sporting events, and hopes to have a few trial events put on at Christmas time to gauge how much of a success it can be.

She said: "It is going to take a while, but people are always going on about the trouble, so I would just like them to know that something is in the process."