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    The Cranborne Craft Café

    17 April 2025 - By 

    Do you sew, knit, crochet, do tapestry, cross stitch, patchwork, quilting, creative mending, or even digital art (or anything similar)? Then please join us at a new community group at Cranborne Village Hall.

    The Cranborne Craft Café is starting on May 13th, 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Bring your latest project with you and have a coffee or tea and a chat. Biscuits (or cake) also available! Your first session is free and it will be £3 after that, just to cover costs.

    Future dates are May 27th, June 10th, June 24th, July 8th, July 22nd.

    Everyone welcome: tell you friends!

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    We’re open!

    14 April 2025 - By 

    After 18 months with the Hall closed, we were so happy to welcome our first event yesterday: a great children’s birthday party complete with bouncy castle.

    And our regular groups are starting up over the next week or two: yoga, pilates, badminton, Local History…and coming soon, the Cranborne Craft Cafe.

    It’s been a real community effort to get here so thank you to everyone who’s helped. Watch this space for details of our re-opening party.

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    What’s coming up at the Hall

    11 April 2025 - By 

    Remember: it’s the Cranborne Duck Race on Saturday 26th April. This is always a brilliant community event and it’s a really important fundraiser for our First School, so please show your support. 

    The Village Hall will be open with lots of stalls and refreshments. And it’ll be a chance for you to find out what’s happening as we re-open.  

    We’ll have lots of information about our regular activities, including badminton, yoga, pilates, Cranborne Local History Society and the Cranborne Craft Café (more news to come!). And we’ll have details on events coming up including our re-opening party on Friday May 9th. 

    And if you have any ideas for ‘Clubs for Cranborne’, then get in touch or come and see us on the 26th. 

    Hope to see you there.

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    What a night! The Great Big Cranborne Quiz was a huge success!

    31 March 2025 - By 

    What a night! The Great Big Cranborne Quiz was a huge success, with 52 people taking part and a very long reserve list. All our magic number squares sold, with H taking the £100 cash prize.

    In quiz terms, the winning team was “Whips and Levels” from Bellows Cross/Boveridge, with “The JERSies from Penny’s Mead in second place.

    Here are the winners with their trophy and cheese box, both generously donated by The Book & Bucket Cheese Company.

    An amazing £430 was raised for Village Hall funds. Many thanks to the Sheaf of Arrows for their support. The next Great Big Cranborne Quiz will be at the Village Hall on September 13th, so we should be able to fit everyone in. And Annie Noble and family are returning as quizmasters after a gap of over 10 years. So put the date in your diaries!

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    Badminton, Yoga and the Cranborne History Society are coming back to the Hall!

    24 March 2025 - By 

    We’ve been busy getting the Main Hall ready for re-opening and we’re delighted to announce that Badminton Club (Tuesdays), Yoga Group (Wednesdays) and Cranborne History Society (1st Tuesday of the month) are coming back to the Hall, starting w/c 21st April.

    We’ll be announcing other groups and events shortly: watch this space!

    Anyone interested in running an activity or booking an event, please get in touch on hello@cranbornevillagehall.org.uk.

    And check our calendar for what’s happening.

    Yoga Photo by Anupam Mahapatra on Unsplash Badminton Photo by Saif71.com on Unsplash

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    Good News – the new charity has been set up!

    26 January 2025 - By 

    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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    What a great day at the Boveridge College Christmas Fayre!

    23 December 2024 - By 

    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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