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Village Hall Support
Village halls play a crucial role in supporting strong, diverse, vibrant and inclusive community groups. By being part of the Network your hall will benefit from specialist services and discounts and for management committee members to be reassured they are working effectively and with robust policies and procedures with the assistance of our Village Hall Advisor Richard Timney- richardt@comfirst.org.uk.
Your membership gives you a “there when you need it” helpline service backed by Action for Communities in Rural England (ACRE), advice bulletins, networking opportunities and training events.
To become a member or to find out more about our Village Hall Service please email info@comfirst.org.uk
Latest Village Hall Support News!
Up stream prevention of ill health in rural communities.
We all want the people in our communities to be as healthy as possible, to be engaged in village life and to have a network of local friends and neighbours.
A well run, active and well resourced village hall can make a massive contribution to achieving these goals.
Over the last few months we have been asking village hall volunteers what, if anything, is challenging village hallers the most? What is getting in the way of the community being able to maximise the benefits it can get from having a village hall in their midst?
The answers were a little to do with policies, some to do with buildings and equipment, some raised the issue of marketing events at the hall but overwhelmingly it was the challenges about finding new volunteers for hall events and for managing the hall.
Our project, UP, funded by Evesons our work aims to help halls overcome all of these challenges.
First we want to understand fully the resources and challenges you have so we have launched a buildings, activities and policies survey to give us a base line for our project outcomes.
Second we will be holding networking meetings with interested halls to start the work of spreading good ideas, funding and training opportunities and to offer to directly support halls with a marketing push and volunteer search. The first is in Wychavon on the 24th September – there will be another in late October in Herefordshire.
Third, we will be working directly with village halls to find new volunteers, to establish and promote an activity day. This will involve direct support with materials, social media and door to door surveys of residents – hopefully making contact with what we all call “the hard to reach” people in communities.
Fourth, we will be helping halls to understand how to measure the value of their work – to help them focus their efforts and to let funders know the impact of any projects.
If your hall wants to get involved in this project do let us know at richardt@comfirst.org.uk