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Village Hall update. Exciting times!

Preston Bissett Village Hall update October 2022

Dear villager,

We are now in a position to begin the much-needed improvements to the Village Hall (was the Old School) so that it can become a space the whole community is proud to be a part of and wants to use. 

In the short-term priorities are to make the interior of the hall useable by doing the following: Restore the floor, remove the partition, decorate, and clean throughout.

In the longer term we need to consider the following;

  1. Investigate and decide what heating will work best in this space. 
  2. Research options that will vastly improve the hall, the kitchen facilities and toilets. This will almost certainly require an extension along the back of the hall into the yard.
  3. Improve the outside space behind the hall.  There are several ideas including a village garden.
  4. Grants that may be available to help towards the costs of the above.
  5. Additional ideas for fund raising.

If you are interested in getting involved with this project, we would like to hear from you.  You can help by:

Becoming a Trustee to help with the management, fund-raising (in particular, grant applications) and implementation of the longer-term goals.

Or;

By Volunteering to help with specific fund-raising activity/events and ideas.  And/or, providing hands-on help with getting the hall to where it needs to be.

We would like someone to build a photographic record of the village hall as it goes from now to how we want it. Is there anyone out there with a keen interest in photography who could document the changes over the coming weeks, months and years? 

From,

Mark Payne, Anna King, Harry Morten and Carl Shute.