VILLAGE HALL NEWS SHEET August 2011  

Welcome to the latest on the new village hall. Lots of things are going on and by the time you get this, lots more will have happened.

Children’s Play Area and Landscaping
The play area has been reopened for use, having been relocated for the new hall. 48 volunteers worked on the 20 August to spread the wood chips and lay the turf and we now await the arrival of some new pieces of play equipment.
We were especially pleased to welcome Peter Brown, who originally designed the hall, which is going up very quickly now. Thanks also, to John Tallowin for lending and David Beales for driving, the digger which helped enormously.
Watch this apace for another community event to plant the hedging round the play area and a number of trees on the site.

Construction
Onto the building itself. The project is on track and on budget and is due for completion at the end of November.
At the time of writing, the brick-work is at least 3m high all round, the structural steelwork is in place and the sub floor is complete. The builders are about to place the orders for the roof tiles, solar panels and ground source heat pump and the hall will be weather tight in September.

BBQ on the Building Site
There will be another site visit at 6pm on Tuesday, 30th August so that we can see the progress being made and trustees will be on hand to take questions. There will also be a barbeque….all welcome!

Using the NEW Village Hall
We have a small committee who are now working on how the hall will operate. They are sorting out a booking system and working on hire charges, as well as starting to work on some events and users we already have booked.

So what’s going to happen in the NEW Village Hall?

IT Training – confirmed by two providers
Rural Cinema – trial run on the "2nd September - sold out - Watch this space for next Film
Mobile Gym from Jan 2012 – confirmed by North Norfolk District Council
Community circuit – awaiting confirmation

Events already booked

40th Birthday on 31st December 2011
Milestone birthday January 2011
Ladies Day spring 2012
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – Beacon event
Dog Show – summer 2012

Trustees
As promised, there will be changes to the governance of the Charity, with nominations and elections for some posts in October. We have drafted the initial details of this and once we have legal clearance, will need to get both Charity Commission and Norfolk Rural Community Council approval.
We will be contacting key stakeholders regarding the nomination process in due course.

The Road to the Hall
You will not have missed that the hall and the two new houses will be accessed via a private road off Mallard Way.
We have been asked to suggest an official street name for this and we feel it should be named after some-one who has done something special for the village or this project. Our proposals are as follows:

 Brown’s Loke – after Peter Brown, the architect who designed the new Village Hall
 Edgell Lane – after Laura Edgell, who donated the money for the original hall in Stubb Road
 Nudd’s Loke – after Billy Nudd, the man whose actions saved the village from a serious flood
 Tate Close — after Don Tate who kindly donated £25000 towards the new Village Hall

Simply email or post your choice to Shirley Sainsbury (see below) or place it in the suggestion box at the Methodist Chapel.
Communications

We have a new member of our team who is going to lead on Communications, Chris Watkins, who brings a wealth of journalistic experience to the project. However he is holiday so will write the next newsletter insert!

Contact Us
The Charity can be contacted via its secretary,
Shirley Sainsbury Tel: 598882
Briarley Lodge email: charity@briarleylodge.co.uk
Stubb Road
Hickling
NR12 0BN

On Facebook – Hickling Recreation Hall
New Website – coming in September – watch this space!

Finally a huge thank you to all those people who have continued to support the project to build the new Village Hall, by writing in with support, attending meetings, helping us to get jobs done, or just generally being supportive.
Thank you

Your Trustees
Richard Cook
David Pugh
Harry Purnell
Harvey Gibbons
Nick Baker
Viv Tallowin
Lorraine West
David Beales
Shirley Sainsbury