Archive of: Village Halls

Census of Rural England’s Village and Community Halls to launch this week.

Following on from a highly successful Village Halls’ Week that involved over 700 village halls, actively engaged 18 MPs and attracted coverage from BBC Countryfile, national Newspapers and resulted in #villagehallsweek trending on Twitter, ACRE will launch a national survey.

Defra and MPs will meet communities awarded funds from the Village Hall Improvement Grant Fund

Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) runs the annual campaign Village Halls Week which celebrates the community spaces at the heart of rural communities. This year promises to be extra special as the week kick starts in the House of Commons.

Budget delivers good news for village halls

ACRE is delighted with announcement in the Budget yesterday that the government will provide up to £8 million to help with the cost of repairs and alterations to village halls, Miners’ Welfare facilities and Armed Forces organisations’ facilities.

New Partnership with Allied Westminster Insurance Services

Allied Westminster Insurance Services (Allied Westminster) and ACRE are delighted to announce they have reached an agreement in which Allied Westminster will provide significant financial support for ACRE’s England-wide information and advice service for village halls over the next three years.

Delivering services to rural communities (guest post from Zurich Municipal)

Guest blog for #VillageHallsWeek from Zurich Municipal which looks at two village halls in Cumbria.

Start preparing your hall to get online during #VillageHallsWeek (guest post from Plymouth University)

Dr. Katherine Willis from Plymouth University has been at the forefront of a ‘Digital Neighbourhoods’ project and tells us that rural communities can benefit from digital access in their community venue, in order to overcome digital divides and enable local people to participate more actively in society.

Getting to know the National Rural Touring Forum

The National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF) is one of those wonderful under the radar organisations that helps keep rural Britain thriving. Here’s an introduction from their Chair, Tom Speight.

"A teapot as big as the moon" by Ian McMillan

As part of #VillageHallsWeek celebrations, poet Ian McMillan has written a poem call ‘A teapot as big as the moon’. The poem has been written thanks to the support of the National Rural Touring Forum for #VillageHallsWeek.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way: rural communities use all manner of spaces to create social hubs (Guest post by the Plunkett Foundation)

More and more rural communities across the UK are pulling together to create community hubs and provide additional services in existing community buildings.

Government Minister to launch #VillageHallsWeek in Buckinghamshire

Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Rural Affairs Minister will launch the first ever #VillageHallsWeek in his home county of Buckinghamshire on Monday 22 January 2018.