As your village hall advisor for many years, I have visited lots of halls - well over 150 now to help them understand their duties and responsibilities in running their hall.  

 

To help them with some of the misunderstandings that develop locally - for instance with parish councils or over sensitive issues like safeguarding or GDPR or some emerging worries like new terrorist attack planning laws (Martyn's Law) or insurance issues.   I can help with ideas about activity days and finding new volunteers too.

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I carry out these visits as a Health Check - meeting the committee and generally looking at the state of the hall, its policies and procedures and answering all the questions the committee may have - all backed up by a follow up of revised policies, model documents and further advice from our extensive resources.

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Many halls are on their second or third health check visit now but maybe you have not had one before.  It doesn't matter to me - what I have found is that however well run a hall is they always learn some new nugget of information to help them improve or get reassurance about their performance that can also help them with a testimonial for a funding bid or two.

 

The health check service is available to members of our network for £155 - (£185 non members) takes a two hour meeting and then the time to read and adopt all the policies you can eat!!    Are you interested?

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Get in touch.  richardt@comfirst.org.uk

Quell those worries, stifle those comments and tackle those disputes!