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Bedmond Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Bedmond Village Hall has been serving its small rural community since it was built with funds raised by the Bedmond Pioneers, a very active group of local group of residents, in 1930. It was rebuilt by a massive fundraising effort in 2000 supported by the Heritage Lottery Millennium Fund and is run by a dedicated team of volunteers who maintain the Hall to a very high standard. It is home to a wide variety of groups and activities and also provides a very popular local venue for parties and events. This much loved Hall is located at the heart of its community and is always looking to expand the range of activities and events on offer to provide more opportunities and support for its community.
Bishop’s Park Community Centre
Hertfordshire
Bishop’s Park Community Centre offers two rooms which can also be joined into one large room with shared kitchen facilities, wifi, car parking and disabled access. There is also a committee room upstairs for quiet meetings, yoga or meditation. The Centre usually has many users who host a variety of activities from Baby Yoga to Karate and many other private functions and events, from a huge number of exercise classes to wedding receptions and family parties. Its larger hall normally accommodates up to 70 people and its smaller hall up to 40. The upstairs room will facilitate 15 people. The Centre also has a beautiful garden and patio area which provides ample room for outdoor activities. Although the Centre has been made Covid-secure it was recently closed due to the Covid-19 National Lockdown. The Centre is an important part of the Bishop’s Stortford community and we look forward to re-opening further and re-engaging with the local community, as and when we can, in line with the latest Government Guidance
Bishop’s Park Community Centre
Hertfordshire
Bishop’s Park Community Centre offers two rooms which can also be joined into one large room with shared kitchen facilities, wifi, car parking and disabled access. There is also a committee room upstairs for quiet meetings, yoga or meditation. The Centre usually has many users who host a variety of activities from Baby Yoga to Karate and many other private functions and events, from a huge number of exercise classes to wedding receptions and family parties. Its larger hall normally accommodates up to 70 people and its smaller hall up to 40. The upstairs room will facilitate 15 people. The Centre also has a beautiful garden and patio area which provides ample room for outdoor activities. Although the Centre has been made Covid-secure it was recently closed due to the Covid-19 National Lockdown. The Centre is an important part of the Bishop’s Stortford community and we look forward to re-opening further and re-engaging with the local community, as and when we can, in line with the latest Government Guidance.
Bramfield Village Hall
Hertfordshire
In 1946, at the end of the Second World War, Bramfield was given a field covered in bracken and brambles, by the Woodhall Estate which owned land in the area. The men of the village, returning home after active service, cleared the land and turned it into a recreation field so that families from the village could enjoy peace and family leisure time once more. Shortly after this a timber framed hall was built and this became the social heart of the village. This hall has been extended twice and now boasts a separate annex housing changing facilities for the local sports teams. Together with the adjacent playing fields and children’s play area it forms the hub of our village. The Hall hosted a wide variety of events and activities until the first lockdown forced us to close. Now, in early 2021, we are planning activities for when we come out of our current lockdown. September 2020 was our 50 year anniversary and we had a celebration party planned for all the village. Sadly that had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic but we are hoping we can now hold this in September 2021. This coming year we are also hoping to hold our very popular Open Gardens event and our regular Summer Fair and Dog Show. We shall continue to provide, as we have done for many years, a venue for events and activities which cater for everyone in our community.
Braughing Community Hall
Hertfordshire
The Braughing Community Hall was opened in 1974 to provide facilities for sport and recreation in the village of Braughing. We have a number of groups using the hall and the hall is available for private bookings at reasonable rates.
Burnham Green Village Hall
Hertfordshire
A small Village Hall in pleasant surroundings including a play area. Ideal for children’s parties.
Colney Heath Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Our hall was established by a Deed of Trust in 1936 and built with volunteer labour. It was extended in 2000 to include a second small space, a new kitchen, store room and an office for the Parish Council. Prior to Covid-19 we were very busy with a wide range of activities and running a healthy surplus. We expect to return to this happy state by 2023. We are planning some new initiatives including measures to counteract the digital exclusion of vulnerable residents. We face some issues caused by external parties but we have a strong management team of trustees who will solve these problems.
Cottered Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Cottered Village Hall is an integral and vital part of the lsmall local community. Since being completely rebuilt in 2000 the facility has had an increasing influence on the inclusive nature of village activities. We are very fortunate that we have a great volunteer group of Trustees to run the hall. The Covid pandemic has obviously had a tremendous effect on our ability to use the building. All activities were curtailed at the start of the first ‘lockdown’. A decision was then made to reserve the premises for the exclusive use of one main client providing teaching services to young adults with special needs. Because of the vital service they provide to vulnerable young people we have continued with this arrangement. This has allowed the group to have effective social distancing and to work with us on maintaining strict cleansing controls. We look forwarding at some point to being able to return to whatever the new normality will be. In the meantime we shall continue to support the group.
Flamstead Village Hall
Hertfordshire
The Flamstead School Room was built in 1861. Although it lacked running water and had outside chemical closets, it was used as a school until 1962. There are families in the village whose parents and grandparents remember going to school there. In 1964 the hall was taken on a lease to provide a meeting place for many village organisations, and in succeeding years improvements were made – including adding toilets, a kitchen and a committee room. In 1969 it was bought with the aid of numerous small loans from villagers, and Flamstead Village Hall was established as an independent charitable trust. Over the years there has been further improvement and modernisation on a regular basis, making the Village Hall a bright, well-lit and warm space which can host a variety of activities.
Although Covid stopped most activities throughout the past year, Preschool was able to run safely there, five days per week in term time, giving very young children a positive time playing and learning. We look forward to the return of more users when restrictions are lifted in the coming months: including Cubs, Beavers, Brownies, table tennis, WI, Yoga, the annual Village Show and the Scarecrow Festival, as well as family celebrations and children’s parties.
Fleetville Community Centre
Hertfordshire
As you’ll see from the picture we’ve a old prefabricated building. We hope to replace this with a new centre within the next couple of years, building on the same site and offering a modern, energy efficient building with more user space.
Great Gaddesden Parish Hall
Hertfordshire
Great Gaddesden Parish Hall is a modern facility with easy accessibility and plenty of parking, that is well supported by the many people it serves. Regular home to Baby Sensory supporting new parents & their babies, Track City giving toddler families a chance to play with a giant train track in a mini world & a weekend Laser athletic group for older kids; Hemel Hempstead Cycling Club, Table Tennis & Tring Wargamers; various dance, photography, conservation & environmental groups, as well as a venue for a variety of indoor sports & well-being activities, music practice, photography and a mix of social & family events. It is also the local Polling Station, is used for public meetings and the Parish Council, and its car park by local walking groups and Open Garden charity days.
A charitable trust run on a non-profit basis. The land and facilities were leased to the rural community for a peppercorn rent by a collective of local dignitaries in the 1950’s and latterly the freehold gifted in the 1970’s as a catalyst to creating a centrally active hub in this picture-perfect Area of Natural Beauty ‘with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants’
Havers Community Centre
Hertfordshire
Havers Community Centre offers two rooms which can also be joined into one large room with shared kitchen facilities, wifi and car parking. There is also a committee room for small meetings/lessons. The Centre usually has many users who host a variety of activities from Brownies/Cubs sessions to St John’s Ambulance Training, and many other private functions and events, such as a diverse array of exercise classes to wedding receptions and family parties. Its larger hall can normally accommodate up to 70 people and its smaller hall up to 40. The centre has been made Covid-secure, and remains open for the NHS to use free of charge twice a week during this Global Covid-19 Pandemic. The centre is an important part of the Bishop’s Stortford community and usually offers regular church services, mother and baby groups and other social gatherings such as an annual international lunch event, where people from different countries come together to celebrate community connections and get to know one another a little better. We look forward to re-opening further and re-engaging with the local community, as and when we can, in line with the latest Government Guidance.
High Wych Memorial Hall
Hertfordshire
High Wych Memorial Hall was dedicated to the memory of Bishop Johnson of Colchester, a former vicar of High Wych, and to the officers and men of High Wych who gave their lives in The Great War 1914 - 1918. Since opening in 1923 it has been a centre for many village activities and cultural events ranging from The Women’s Institute to an Internet Cafe as well as hosting music events, fundraisers and wedding receptions! Unfortunately closed at present due to the Covid 19 pandemic, our outreach Post Office has continued to serve the community throughout both lockdowns. We look forward very much to re-opening and welcoming everyone back, hopefully in 2021.
Hunsdon Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Hunsdon Village Hall Hall is a Grade II listed building, located at the heart of the community in the centre of the picturesque and historic village of Hunsdon in East Hertfordshire.
History
Hunsdon Village Hall was originally believed to be a house called Harlowes, owned by John Harlowe in the 15th Century. By 1806 the building was being used as the village school with Mrs Calvert of Hunsdon House assisting the schoolmistress. The Calvert’s extended the building in about 1817 by adding the two adjoining cottages for teachers accommodation. The building continued to be used as a school until 1927 when a new school was built in the village and the hall was then bequeathed to the village in a Trust which is now a registered charity. In 2010 the halls facilities were improved by the addition of a new annex extension which included accessible toilets, a meeting room, a health consulting room and a well-equipped modernised kitchen with an integral Internet Café and storage rooms. The construction also resulted in a self-contained rear garden.
Ickleford Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Our hall was opened in 1925, when it was felt a Village Hall was needed since there was a sizable local community who needed a hall in which to hold their events. By Dec 1925 the Hall was complete and it arranged communal activities such as weekly dances and whist drives. In 1927 the annual children’s party was attended by 180 children. The small hall was opened in 1931 and was originally intended to provide Woodwork and Cookery teaching facilities for the school. When school meals were introduced, the main hall was initially used as a dining hall for the school.
More recently the Hall has become the focus for various groups rather than being organised by the Hall itself. Some of these such as the WI, Scouts and Brownies are longstanding national groups, but local groups such as Ickle Drama (drama classes mainly for children), pilates, keep fit and various dancing classes have become very popular. The Hall is also the ‘go to’ venue for children’s parties at the weekend.
We are looking forward to welcoming these activities and more back to our Hall in 2021 and also celebrating our centenary in 2025.
Kimpton Memorial Hall
Hertfordshire
Hall used for a wide variety of uses by whole village community from exercise classes to wedding receptions, Community group meetings, plays and concerts. Currently closed due to COVID restrictions but is a COVID secure venue.
Little Hadham Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Little Hadham Village Hall was built in 1971 and is of wooden construction. It is our 50th anniversary this year and we will be celebrating with showing off our new cinema equipment and kitchen all achieved in lockdown. We will continue our efforts by moving forward with our major refurbishment which will be to replace our old windows and floor and build a new storage facility. The past year has indeed presented us with challenges which our volunteers have responded to brilliantly. Through the pandemic we are now resetting how we support our community needs with Health and Wellbeing and social connections including digital technology
Markwell Pavillion and Elsie Barrett Clubroom
Hertfordshire
The Markwell Pavillion and Elsie Barrett Clubroom is conveniently located at the heart of Bishop’s Stortford, and can be found in the Town Centre’s park, near the picturesque Castle Gardens and Sworders Field. This Centre has 2 halls with attached kitchens. Usually its many users host a variety of activities for the U3A, Salvation Army and many other private functions and events from diet clubs, exercise classes to wedding receptions, weekly tea-parties for the elderly and children’s parties for the younger generation. Its larger hall can normally accommodate up to 70 people, and its smaller hall up to 40. Although we have worked very hard to ensure the Centre is Covid-secure, it was closed during the National lockdown. However we look forward to re-opening its doors again and re-engaging with the local community, as and when we can, in line with latest Government Guidance. The Centre is set to undergo some exciting changes in the future and will undergo some major modernisation.
Potten End Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Sydney Renee Courtauld transferred the Village Hall and land to the parish by a Conveyance dated 28 June 1928 under which the land was conveyed to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations as the “Custodian Trustee”. It relinquished that role in 2019 when the property was transferred to the CIO in the name of Potten End Village Hall.
Under the terms of the 1928 conveyance the property is held “to permit the same to be used for the purposes of physical and mental recreation and social moral and intellectual development through the medium of reading and recreation rooms, library, lectures, classes, recreations and entertainments or otherwise as may be found expedient for the benefit of the inhabitants of Potten End with Nettleden”.
Redbourn Village Hall
Hertfordshire
Redbourn Village Hall is celebrating it’s centenary in March 2021 and RVH remains at the heart of community life in the village. In normal times it is the venue for a wide selection of activities, classes, clubs, performances, exhibitions, celebrations and parties. RVH is the home of the Redbourn Care Group which has co-ordinated the response to the needs of the local community during the Covi-19 pandemic. The RVH Manager and RVHMC are working hard to maintain RVH during the Covid-19 lockdowns so that RVH will be ready to welcome it’s user back as soon as permitted.
SAWBRIDGEWORTH YOUNG PEOPLE’S RECREATIONAL CENTRE
Hertfordshire
We are still hosting the daily High Wych Pre-School Nursery and normallly we would have a range of activities led by local creative and martial arts etc. groups plus community events (dinners, quizzes etc.). We have plans to extend and refurbish the hall to make it more attractive and suitable for young people in Sawbridgeworth, for whom it is intended. The Hall is managed by a committee of town councillors and community representatives. The Town Council is the trustee for the hall and field. The land was originally donated by deed to the National Playing Fields Association in 1933 by Sir Arthur Cutforth and tranfsrred to the then Sawbridgewroth Urban District Council in 1969.
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St Ippolyts Parish Hall
Hertfordshire
The purpose of the Trust is to provide and maintain a Parish Hall for the use or benefit of the inhabitants of the Parish of St Ippolyts and their environs, without distinction of political, religious, or other opinions, etc.
History
On the 25 October 1939, the Hon. Mrs David Bowes Lyon opened the Parish Hall.
In January 1997, the Parochial Church Council agreed to the establishment of the Hall Project Group. The end of the Project was celebrated on Friday evening 19 November 1999. Mr Simon Bowes Lyon, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire unveiled the Commemorative plaque and the Rt. Hon and Rt. Revd. Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon, gave the address. The new improved hall with extension fit for the Millennium and for all its many users re-opened.
Facilities
There is a choice of rooms for hire: the main hall or one of two committee rooms or both rooms or the whole building. Kitchen, bar, changing room, storage room, sound system, hearing loop, public address system, stage lighting, LED lighting and Wi Fi. Children’s toilet and baby changing facilities, toilets and accessible toilet, car parking, accessible parking, and wheelchair ramp.
Users
The hall usually has many users who run a variety of activities: Brownies, Rainbows, Beavers, Cubs and Art Club for children. Come Dance, Dog Training Club, Ladies Bridge Club, Table Tennis Club, Weston Artists, Women’s Institute, Yoga and Zumba. Monthly Community Lunches and The Friends’ Lent Lunches. In addition, the hall has been used for casual and private functions.
Up until 16 March 2020
The Parish Hall was the thriving hub of our community. The trustees have been busy ensuring the hall is welcoming and secure also obtaining grants that have helped to replace income which stopped with the coronavirus pandemic.
The Future
The trustees look forward to re-opening and re-engaging with the local community again, as, and when we can. In the meantime, Management meetings and Annual meeting will be held on Zoom. Vaccines are being rolled out and recent Government Response Spring 2021 is optimistic.
St Michaels Mead Community Centre
Hertfordshire
St Michael’s Mead Community Centre offers two halls, each with their own attached kitchen, wifi, car parking and disabled access. There is also a mezzanine area upstairs for that can be used for small meetings or lessons. The Centre usually has many users who host a variety of activities from Badminton, Brownies/Cubs sessions to Zumba and many other private functions and events, from a huge number of exercise classes to wedding receptions, family parties and mother and toddler groups. Its larger hall normally accommodates up to 150 people and its smaller hall up to 25. The upstairs room will facilitate 6 people. Although the Centre has been made covid-secure it was recently closed due to the Covid-19 National Lockdown. The centre is an important part of the Bishop’s Stortford community and we look forward to re-opening further and re-engaging with the local community, as and when we can, in line with the latest Government Guidance.
The Court House, Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
The Court House is a 16th century half-timbered building. It was originally used as the courts of the Manor of Berkhamsted, has been used as a school and today serves as the church hall for St Peter’s. Usually it’s full of toddler groups, community lunches and evening classes. We look forward to opening up again.
Town House, Barley
Hertfordshire
The Town House dates back to the 16th century. It has housed a school, villagers and even a fire engine in its colourful history. Today it serves as a much loved village hall. It sits in the heart of the village, opposite the church.
It provides a venue for the Gardening Club, the Community Group and local Fitness, Pilates and Yoga classes and offers a training /meeting facility for local employers and organisations.
Its sympathetic restoration provides a unique setting for special occasion events and weddings which were held regularly before the pandemic hit.
As in the past, the hall will open it’s door once again and provide a welcoming place to bring the village back to some normality once restrictions are lifted.
Walkern Sports and Community Centre
Hertfordshire
Our village asset that just keeps giving!
Ware Drill Hall
Hertfordshire
Although based in a town rather than a village our large community hall, built in 1899, continues to provides a vital and versatile space in the 21st Century for people in Ware and the surrounding area. It is suitable for a wide range of activities: performing arts and live music events, various sports and fitness sessions for all ages, dog training classes, vintage fairs and children’s parties are just a selection of our bookings. It is currently being used for Covid-19 vaccination clinics during the 2021 lockdown allowing thousands of people to receive their jab without travelling too many miles.
Weston Village Hall
Hertfordshire
As we are in Lockdown, we are unable to celebrate Village Halls Week this year so we would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who, in more normal times, have regular bookings in Weston Village Hall.
Exercise Club
Strength and Balance
Yoga
Pilates
Circuit Training
Ladies Badminton
Ballet classes
Jazz Dance
Musical Theatre Dance Classes
Cherry Tots Baby and Toddler Group
Parish Council
Luncheon Club
Art Class
Bridge Group
Guitar Group
Indoor Flyers
Drop in for a Cuppa
Nattering Needles
Patchwork Group
Cinema Club
Book Exchange and café
We are sorry that we are unable to welcome you into the hall. We miss you, and we are sad that we cannot run events, host parties or bring the village together at this difficult time. Better times lie ahead and we hope to be able to reopen later in the year. We have not been idle during the last year and work has been done to redecorate the hall, upgrade the kitchen and generally keep things shipshape ready to welcome you all back. When we are able to open, we shall be launching a new online booking and payment system to make all our lives easier.
Once we can open our doors again, we shall do so with a flourish! In the meantime, keep safe and well.
Stay at home to control the virus, protect the NHS and save lives.
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Wilstone Village Hall
Hertfordshire
In normal times our village hall is booked solid with exercise activities, children’s parties, music rehearsals, whist drives, Morris dancing and much, much more. The Hall Committee runs many of its own events to raise additional funding, such as fetes, film nights (so successful that we have purchased our own projection and audio kit), cabarets and other community inclusive events.
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