A reminder to come along to the Village Hall update meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 5th March, at 6.30pm – in the Village Hall!
We will update you on the latest plans for getting the Hall open again. We’d love to see you there! Spread the word….
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The charity which hopes to run the village hall in the future has now been set up with Anna McElwaine as chair and Claire Whitehead, Kathy Cleary and Mark Farmer as trustees. We are called: Cecil Memorial Hall Cranborne 2024.
Conversations to change the day to day ownership of the hall from the Parish Council – to Cranborne Estate are ongoing.
It is the hope that the hall will reopen to be run by the new charity on completion of these negotiations and the agreement and completion of a lease from the Estate to the new CIO.
We will keep you informed of our progress towards the reopening of the hall.
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Wow. Just Wow. What a great day we had at the Christmas Fayre at Boveridge College last weekend. The sun came out and our raffle raised a TOTALLY FANTASTIC £866..
Big, sincere thanks to Odette Osborne and her team at Boveridge College for inviting us along to join in with the students and other stallholders.
Big thanks also to our supporters who donated so generously towards the prizes… and of course to the hardworking gang of tickets elves who gave up their time over the weekend to make the whole thing so successful. We simply could not have done it without you.
We hope that our Charity Commission application will be approved early in the new Year and we are already thinking about our events calendar for 2025… Please do let us know what you would like to see here in your village…and get in touch if you can spare even an hour or two to help organise
In the meantime, we wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year..!
Anna, Kathy, Claire and Mark
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Since our last update meeting in the Sheaf of Arrows, we have contacted the Parish Council again but they are not yet ready to enter discussions with us.
A dilapidations survey has taken place and this will assess the level of repairs required for the hall which have been unquantified until now. The report should be back with the Parish Council and the Estate some time in November.
Our Charity Commission application is in progress, and we are looking to set up an events committee as soon as possible – fundraising events will be a vital part of keeping the village hall running in future.
Boveridge College have offered us a stand at their forthcoming inaugural Xmas fayre on SATURDAY DEC 7th and we are going to run a fundraising raffle. We are looking for help (1) with donations towards a prize fund and (2) on the day setting up and selling tickets. We’re sending a separate email about this to anyone already on the mailing list but do please get in touch by facebook, phone, carrier pigeon or any other means if you can help us in any way.
Anna, Mark, Claire and Kathy.