The Public Rooms Project

Village Hall Plans

Admin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:41:41 +0000

7.30PM Wednesday 6 February.

A meeting will be held in the public rooms on the revitalisation of the hall and the plans will be shown and be open for discussion.

It is very important that as many residents and village hall users attend this meeting, to see what is proposed and to make any comments before plans are finalised. It is going to be very difficult to get funding for such an ambitious project. Organsations we will be approaching to seek funding will want evidence of solid community support – this is an opportunity to show it.

Village Hall revitalisation project December 2007

Admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:15:54 +0000

The community itself needs to raise £15000 towards the cost of revitalising the village hall (this is in addition to any major grants etc we manage to obtain, and also in addition to “normal” village fundraising efforts. This regular “slot” in Beneath Blencathra will publicise current and forthcoming fundraising events and activities.

Recent payments:

Recipe Books - £56.00

Pudding Festival - £273

Donation from Duncan Stuart - £50.

The fund has now built up to over £6000. Every little helps.

Village Hall Revitalisation Project - October 2007 progress report

Admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:49:16 +0100

Preliminary design work starts. Local fund raising leaps forward. Major village community study gets under way.

Village Hall Revitalisation Progress Report

Admin — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:36:58 +0100

A lot of solid progress this month, with quite a lot of things now “just about to happen”.

Commissioning architects to do a feasibility study

Village Hall Trust/Public Room Annual Meeting

Admin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:05:54 +0100

Start: 17 Oct 2007 - 19:30

Village Hall Trust/Public Room Annual Meeting

Village Hall Revitalisation Project - June 2007 progress report

Admin — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:43:11 +0100

No meetings this month but lots of progress behind the scenes. And the stop press news – we have just been given a National Lottery grant to finance the feasibility study, so it is full steam ahead.

Experience from other villages
Guy Duxbury organised a trip to Gamblesby, where the village hall has been very successfully renovated. A group of five people went, saw what they had done and talked to the secretary of the village hall committee there.

Public Rooms Appeal

Admin — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:40:07 +0100

The village hall is one of the main pillars of community life in Threlkeld. It was originally built in 1901, financed by public subscription, on land donated to the village by a local benefactor. It has served the village well for over 100 years.

Now the time has come to bring it bang up to date, not by a complete rebuilding, but via a comprehensive revitalisation of the existing one (which local people are very attached to). More details of what is planned can be found here.

Plans for the Public Rooms - From the School.

Admin — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:29:29 +0100

With plans and activities starting to get underway with the Public Rooms revitalisation project, it was the turn of the younger members of the community to put there ideas across on what they would like to see in the Public Rooms. Pupils from Threlkeld School were given the task of drawing plans for the building, the results were really good and varied.

Here's a few samples of things we can expect to see in the Public Rooms of the future! Click on the pictures to view full size.

Village Hall Revitalisation Project - May 2007 progress report

Admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:06:07 +0100

A lively meeting of the Action Group was held on 18 April.

There is still plenty of chance for anyone, whatever your skills and interests, to get involved with this major long term project to improve a vital village facility – contact Trevor or Jane Roberts.

Action Group Minutes - 18 April 2007

Admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:22:36 +0100

1. Progress Reports

Experience of/contact with other villages. Guy Duxbury had contacted by telephone several villages suggested by Voluntary Action Cumbria. Everyone he contacted had been very helpful, and were all willing to welcome people from Threlkeld in person if we wanted to visit. Some were new schemes, some were refurbishment, some had been completed, others were still in preparation. All were financed or hoping to be financed by securing grants 0f £180,000 upwards; and all stressed how difficult it was to obtain grants of this sort, especially from the Lottery Fund etc, with initial applications often being rejected (in one case the Lottery Fund had appointed an advisor to assist with the re-submission of a grant application).