April 25
Some great events have happened in the hall since its re-opening. After a very successful jumble sale by the Play Area Group, our first Ceilidh evening since the re-opening took place on 14th March, exactly 12 months to the day since the one before closure: a great success again and it raised £270. It is also […]
March 25 – Open Day
Chittlehampton Village Hall held an Open Day on Saturday 22nd March to celebrate its re-opening after much-needed renovation work to its original war time Ministry of Works building erected by the community in 1951. The community was delighted to welcome Ian Roome MP for North Devon and Selaine Saxby, who was the MP when work started, […]
Feb 25
February 2025 saw lots of progress in the Village Hall. We have the Air Source Heat Pump running to keep the hall warm and comfortable. The attendees of whist, bingo and yoga are very pleased and highly recommend the hall! We have the Ladies toilets operational. Thank you to all the fund doners and Mark […]
Jan 25
The Trustees and their hardy support network made it for 2nd December! With no little effort from Zoe Nicklin with her supreme project management scheduling, cajoling, arm twisting and, frankly, phenomenal, skills, sufficient tasks were finished in order to allow a first event to take place inside the beautifully revamped and reinsulated space. In the last week, no […]
Dec 24
2024 has seen an incredible journey for the village hall and for all of those involved with it. The average Chronicle reader may have noticed that the hall has not been available for use and that it now looks different. Beneath that lies the incredible efforts of the village hall trustees and of others in […]
Oct 24 – Annual General Meeting
The Chittlehampton Village Hall’s 2024 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 31st October in the Methodist Hall starting at 7.30pm. On the agenda will be an update on the funding situation, a report on the renovation work completed and our future plans including re-opening the hall. While significant progress has been made since our […]
Sept 24
By the time you are reading this the “quiet” patch in the programme should have ended, the scaffolding reduced and the windows starting to go in. The east side of the building should be finished too with the internal blockwork and replacement lintel. Basically, all external works should finish by the end of September. We […]
July 24
The construction work has got on to a strong start from 3rd June 2024. The leaky east end extension is demolished and being rebuilt with the underground drainage relayed, hall floor protected and the external battening started and a bat loft built above the changing rooms. The broad programme for Culmex continues as follows: 11 Jun […]
Renovation Commences
Chitttlehampton Village Hall at 8.30am on Monday 3rd June 2024 was the place, time and date when the contract to start the renovation of our village hall was signed by Peter Bradshaw our Chair and Mat Winterbourne Director of Culmex Construction Ltd. Work started immediately and is due to complete at the end of September. Schedule […]
June 24
£440,000 More good news for the village! We have been awarded a grant of £75,000 for the village hall from the Platinum Jubilee Fund which is the maximum that can be awarded. This is in addition to the £264,500 already awarded by the Government’s Community Ownership Fund. With the many generous donations from you, the […]