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LITTLE WEIGHTON VILLAGE HALL DEVELOPMENTS

The plans for refurbishment are out as well as the questionnaires and all of you seem to like the plans and are enthusiastic that we are prepared to use them.

We will soon have an Entertainment Licence, our application has been accepted and the blue notices are up around the Hall. An advertisement in the Beverley Guardian completes what we have to do. As long as there have been no negative complaints, by April it will be in place.

Tickets are on sale for the Thriftipig Folk Band on 11th March and very soon the tickets for Richard Fuller's talk and slide of his photos of wildlife around Givendale (8th April) will soon follow. If you have never seen his photos you are in for a treat. The Hall will hold 90 people and we are hoping to fill it.

Tickets for both events will be sold at the door. There are plenty of posters around the Village to remind you, we hope. If you wish to get them earlier please phone either 844171 or 844461 and we will arrange to deliver them to you.

The questionnaires are coming in quite quickly. First, not enough under 18's and very few of the 19-40 age group are filling in the forms, perhaps because it had already been filled in by older members of the family! Again phone either 844171 or 844461 and we will arrange to send you some. We do need more to do it – even if the closing date for the draw has gone, we would still be delighted to get some more ideas from the younger villagers as to what they would like to see being organised in the Hall. Please bear in mind though that all these ideas need people to run them and a committee of eight Village Hall Trustees is not enough.

For the fund-raising: volunteers please come forward! Please arrange some programmes. Coffee mornings, Strawberry teas, Walkathons, Bikathons, Marathons! Anything. We need to raise £7000, of which we have, mainly thanks to Pat Davison's calendars, raised £1000. We have to do this in order to prove commitment by the village to helping as much as possible in the refurbishment, before we can apply for any grants. The sum total for the refurbishment and the disabled access etc comes to £217,900 with another £28,327 needed to pay the professional fees of an Architect, Health & Safety Officer, Structural Engineer and Quantity Surveyor. A great many Halls have gone through this process and we can too, with a little help from everyone. Unfortunately the longer we leave it the more expensive it will get as costs continue to rise, never fall.

The plans and all other information are in the Hall to be viewed when it is open. We hope though that this may have helped to answer some questions.

Village Hall Trustees

Would you like to join us? If you would like further information phone 01482 844171 (Chairman), 01482 875680 (Current Secretary), or e-mail: catterallb@yahoo.co.uk B.D.Sorsby@hull.ac.uk

Village Hall Chairmans Report 2010

If you would like to book the Village hall for events please ring - Pru Campbell on 01482 844461

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