Issue 7
March 2022
CRICKHOWELL’S
CL ARENCE HALL NEWSLETTER & WHAT’S ON Hymns & Pimm’s Come and sing your favourite hymns at the Clarence Hall on 4 March in the first of our celebrations to commemorate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Raise a glass of Pimm’s with us to celebrate this remarkable achievement! Tickets £5 from 07541121838.
Eyes Down! Monthly Bingo returns to the Clarence Hall at 7pm on Thursday, 10 March to raise funds for our refurbishment project. Admission £10 which includes a bingo book of six games, a pen and your first drink. More information at: https:// www.clarencehallcr ickhowell.org.uk/
We’ve reached our fundraising target! The Trustees of the Clarence Hall are delighted to confirm that thanks to the generosity of our community, we have reached our initial fundraising target of £95,000. This is tremendous news and means that we have now secured our grant of £100,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund, which was awarded in September 2021, raising £195,000 in total. We are very grateful to everyone who has contributed to our campaign – without your support, this achievement would not have been possible. As you are all aware, the works that we are proposing to complete as Phase 1 of the Hall’s refurbishment have been determined in response to our Community Consultation in 2020. Our intention is to continue fundraising over the next year to ensure that the specification for the refurbishment is as good as it can be and will deliver all the benefits we anticipate. In particular, feedback received from recent consultations with our key partners has suggested that a commercial grade kitchen would support many additional activities, including a seniors’ lunch club or meals on wheels service. We have therefore raised our fundraising target to £105,000 in order to deliver this, although this does not impact our Lottery grant. We are planning for work to commence in September this year on a phased basis, to enable the Hall to be used throughout by the many organisations it supports. These are exciting times for the Clarence Hall and we are delighted with the enthusiastic support the community has given our ambitious programme of refurbishment!
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