shefford community hall

from LivingLife - September 2022 - Issue 46

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Shefford Community Hall Committee

Shefford Community Hall will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Friday 30th September in the hall (next to the fish & chip shop). Please come along and show your support for the facility and give your views on how the hall is run. Tea/coffee and cake will be available from 7pm and the AGM will start at 7.30pm.

As its name suggests, Shefford Community Hall is for the benefit of the whole Shefford community. The hall has charitable status, and it is run by voluntary trustees and a management committee. The committee needs some new members to help keep the hall running efficiently, so why not consider joining the management committee? It’s interesting and rewarding but not particularly onerous. The committee normally meets just once every three months (at a time of day that accommodates all members wherever possible). For those new to the area, the hall was built in the early 19th century as a school room and vacated in the latter part of that century. In 1911 it was purchased by the church (St. Michaels and All Angels) as their parish rooms. In 1998 the church announced it was to be sold for residential building. At that time the hall was in a poor state of repair. A public meeting was held and at that meeting a committee was formed who then negotiated a lease with the church to run the hall for the Shefford community. Since then a lot of improvements have been made to the building and grounds.

The updating of the building continues. A baby changing station has just been installed and the committee have further projects in the pipeline, some of them quite ambitious. Bookings for hire of the hall are being taken again following the ‘Covid years’.

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