Watlington Village Hall

Watlington Village Hall is an ideal venue for large and small events,including clubs and society meetings, public and fundraising events, box office entertainment, parties and wedding receptions. The Premises are licensed for Regulated Entertainment and the Sale of Alcohol under the Licensing Act 2003 and the Hall is licensed by the Performing Rights Society (PRS) and the PPL for the playing of live and recorded music.

Village Hall

The larger main hall is ideal for wedding receptions, concerts, shows, parties, and corporate events. The second smaller hall is ideal for parties, meetings and young children’s parties. Indoor sports can be played in either hall. Sports currently played include carpet bowls, short mat bowls, badminton and archery. Table tennis is also available. Changing facilities are available in the Committee / Changing Room. 2012 has seen the completion of the new car park, which offers 74 spaces including disability parking.

There are toilets and facilities for the disabled in both halls and both halls are centrally heated. All booking enquiries can be made by contacting the Bookings Secretary. Check out the Facilities Page for more details about each hall and the Hall Bookings Chart Page for hall availability.

Watlington Village Hall was built in 1988, following determined fund raising, to replace an older style hall on the main site. Because of its popularity the building was was extended in 2000, with the building of a second hall, committee / changing room and an Information Centre.

The Village Hall is run by a managing group of trustees, who have the responsibility of ensuring that the hall is run according to the Terms of the Trust and follow regulations determined by Act of Parliament which are supervised by the Charity Commission. (Charity No. 298454) Trustees are either elected at the AGM in November, co-opted or are representatives from the clubs and societies who make regular use of the hall. Check out the news below for the latest management news or the Box Office page to see what’s on at the Hall.

 

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200 Club

Great to report that at present all 200 Club numbers have been taken up. Well done to Julia and her team for scuttling round the village drumming up business!

 

Cherry Tree Planted

A new cherry tree has been planted by CR Pike and C Carpenter in the front garden, to replace the tree donated by Penny Cooke, which didn’t really get started last year and finally expired.

The Flowering Cherry in Bloom

 

Watlington Online Website

The Watlington Gossip has published a new website as a hub for village information. Why not pay it a visit and give them feedback on the information published so far or supply updated or additional material.

The website is particularly looking for more information and pictures for the history page.

If you are a group or organisation based in the village and don’t have a website why not contact them as they may be able to offer you a page on the new site?

The web address is www.watlingtonnorfolk.co.uk . We have put a link on the front page of our website.

 

Another Generous Donation

At the Drs Lacey’s recent Diamond Wedding celebrations held at the hall, a very generous £500 was raised towards village hall funds. It was hoped that the funds could be put to good use as part of a project (at the very early stages of planning) to upgrade the kitchen facilities in the main hall.

A big thank you to all concerned.

 

Jubilee Celebrations

Penny Cook on behalf of the Jubilee Committee has sent us this update:

“I was wondering if through the  Village Hall websites you could advertise the fact that as part of our Jubilee celebrations we are  holding a Fete and Sports on the Saturday 2nd June and if anyone who runs a group in the village would like to have a stall please contact me.  There are a few organizations in the Village who are not taking part and I wondered if the message had not got through to them yet. We have quite a lot  of interest though, I just want to be sure no-one is left out. (Penny is on 01553 810732)

On Monday we received a cheque for £300 from the WATSTOCK team which is to go towards the Jubilee celebrations. I have also heard via a telephone conversation with County Hall that we are going to get a grant of £200 from them.  I haven’t heard from the Borough Council yet. So things are looking good.

Penny ”

 

Donation from Watstock

The Committee has received the following letter:
“As you are aware the decision has been made not to continue with the Watstock music festivals in Watlington.

With this in mind, the four of us have decided to donate the remaining funds from our Watstock account to organisations and projects with the village.

We would like to make this donation to the Village Hall towards the planned kitchen refurbishment. We felt that this was something the whole village would benefit from.
Thank you for your support in the past for Watstock.

Kind regards
Julia, Triston, Sarah and Angela.”
The cheque was for the grand sum of £700. (Yippee says the Treasurer!). Many thank to the Watstock 4.

 

Committee Meeting

At the Committee meeting last Monday it was noted amongst other matters, that there is a roof leak in the Main Hall, which is being investigated, that liability signs are to be put up in the car park and that quotes are being sought for upgrading the car park lighting.

 

New Phone Number for Bookings

We now have a new phone number for hall bookings:

0844 801 9727

Having this number means that it will remain the same whoever is undertaking the Booking Secretary function.

 

Second Glass Recycling Bin

The glass recycling bin has proved so popular already that a second bin has been added by the Borough Council.

Last weekend the single bin was full to overflowing and people were leaving bags of bottles by the bin. Please DO NOT LEAVE BAGS OF BOTTLES BY THE BINS. If they are full, as a matter of courtesy to keep the area tidy, please take your bottles and bags home and try again another time.

 

New Secretary Required

Our Secretary, Mike Cooke, wants to take a break and step down from the post. If you would be interested in considering taking on this officer role why not get in touch? I could give the usual blather about meet new people, rewarding work etc, but the main thing is we get things done to keep the hall running and moving forward.

If you are interested please contact Mike on 810732 or Cyril on 810376.