Broad Hinton Village Hall

01/09/2024

Last night's Raffle Results, please read, some prizes unclaimed

01/09/2024

Shawl left at the festival last evening - contact Johanna Smith if you think it’s yours.

Cheers,

30/08/2024

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30/08/2024

22/08/2024

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12/08/2024

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04/08/2024

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4 weeks to go to the first Hackpen Beer Festival!!!

As well as beer and fizz, there’ll be an interesting, carefully selected range of gin for you to try. Here’s a flavour of what’s planed:
* Four - five London dry gins
* Some of a more modern style, like Opihr
* A navy strength
* A Plymouth, made from slightly sweeter botanicals and soft Dartmoor water
* An Old Tom, again, very slightly sweetened style of gin, popular in the 19th century now undergoing a renaissance.
* A Dutch Genever; Genever is Dutch for “juniper.” Tastes malty (similar to a light Scotch) with subtle undernotes of herbs and spices
* And for those who like them, some flavoured gins.

We’ll also have an interesting range of garnishes, as suggested by Ginventory (a great gin app for those of you who don’t know it).

With a choice of tonics supplied by Fever Tree.

We’ve got two bands playing throughout the day…

Black Dog Acoustic are our band for the afternoon. We’ll have a restful time listening to beautiful music, while you chat about beer and gin! They’ll be playing from 4pm until 6pm.
My Beloved Monster are our band for the evening – might be a little bit noisier! They’ll play from 8pm until 11pm when the Festival ends.

Get your tickets from https://broadhinton.org.uk/beerfest/ or contact Sarah Kromer at [email protected] or 07885 519221.

02/08/2024

We got through the panic of the flood, the heartbreak of clearing up, the complexity of the insurance claim and the expense of the new drainage. We now have a beautiful new BHVH floor. Here’s some before and after pics. Chris O’Neill has supported us throughout and, in addition to the work of BHVH trustees, has been instrumental in bringing all this about. Thank you Chris. BHVH is now open for business.

20/07/2024

...And so it begins! Auditions Sunday 15th September, in Broad Hinton Village Hall 2pm - 4pm. Adults and Children 9 and over welcome.

16/07/2024

July 300 Club Winners
£50 146 Steve Cutler
£25 175 James Gates
£20 248 Lynne Butler
£20 294 Nick Snow
£10 43 Clare Malcolm

07/07/2024

Tickets are selling well for our Beer/Gin/Fizz Festival! Contact Sarah Kromer for yours. [email protected] or 07885 519221. If she doesn’t answer, please leave a message, she will call you back.
Further updates to come on Beer & Food.

16/06/2024

Contact [email protected] or 07885 519221. If she doesn’t answer, please leave a message, she will call you back.

15/06/2024

June 300 Club Winners
£50 176 Keith Baldwin
£25 220 Mark Wightman
£20 199 Victoria Ladd
£20 241 Adam Gilmore
£10 39 James Gates

15/06/2024

Kitchen Update
Our re-organisation of the kitchen is complete. We’ve heard some criticism that this wasn’t the right place for the ovens. Our aim was to provide a cost-effective solution which looks great and functions well. To achieve this, we had to cause minimal disruption to the existing kitchen, so this was the right place for the ovens. BHVH is now equipped with extremely useful oven facilities, for both hirers and caterers. We hope you enjoy using the kitchen. Thanks to Rich Smith, who sourced all the appliances and cabinets and installed everything at a very reasonable price.

02/06/2024

Early bird tickets purchased in June £10
Tickets purchased in July or August £15
Contact [email protected] or 07885 519221.
If she doesn’t answer, please leave a message, she will call you back.

05/05/2024

New Projector Screen
In a triumph for health & safety, we have ditched the old projector screen, which was really very hungry for fingers. We now have a new portable screen, which is easy to carry and put up. Its home is the locked part of the storeroom, so if you’d like to use it in the main hall for your hiring, please let us know when you book. [email protected]

29/04/2024

Sadly, we’ve just had a resignation. Andy McCombe has achieved so much during his time as trustee. Amongst other things, he has taken care of our secure document provision, contributed to our new hiring process and has been instrumental in the work on our electronic booking system. Even though he’s no longer a trustee, Andy will continue with the bookings system until it’s up and running. Thank you for everything you’ve done Andy.

28/04/2024

Future Bookings
In May, we have the following bookings:
Thursday 2nd Elections in the John Hutchings room all day
Friday 3rd Pre-wedding party 11am – 11pm
Sunday 19th Village Hall Celebration Tea Party 1pm – 3pm set up, 3pm – 5pm event, 5pm – 6pm clearing up
Saturday 25th Child’s Baptism Party 3pm – 11:45pm

The parking requirement for the elections is unpredictable, so please be mindful of this. There will be hirers and guests going in and out of the hall for the two parties. We will need the whole of the car park available. The car park will then be fully used by the hirers and others associated with the event.
You can also see future bookings on the BHVH website https://broadhinton.org.uk/booking/calendar/

26/04/2024

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20/04/2024

Celebration Tea Party for our 15 years-old Broad Hinton Village Hall.
Tickets £10 from Sarah Kromer [email protected] or 07885 519221. If she doesn’t answer, please leave a message, she will call you back.

20/04/2024

Book Café
Saturday 27th April 9.30am – 11.30am Broad Hinton Village Hall It's a Book Exchange. Come and chat about books. Bring good condition fiction only please. Take away as many books as you like.
Entrance £2.50 includes drink and cake.
Please note, this event is run by a local Book Club on a voluntary basis. It's not run by Broad Hinton Village Hall trustees.

19/04/2024

April 300 Club Winners
£50 298 Nick Moakes
£25 44 Mark Watling
£20 202 Victoria Ladd
£20 41 Jon Candy
£10 257 Adam Gilmore

13/04/2024

Conditions of Hiring BHVH
Last month we told you about changes to our hiring fees in the light of increased costs. It’s also worth reminding everyone about three specific conditions of hiring BHVH:
1. Refundable Deposit
2. Hire End Times
3. Security Lock-up

Refundable Deposit
Since a couple of years or so ago, we have experienced issues with hirings which either caused damage to the hall and/or disturbance to the community through inconsiderate parking or noise. We therefore needed to mitigate this risk, so well over a year ago, we introduced a refundable deposit. This has been in place for some time.

We realise that the risk for hirings from people who live in the three villages in our community is far less than for those who don’t. Hence the refundable deposit for external hirings is £750, for local people who live in the community, we request a much lower deposit of £250.

Given there is already a concession for local people, please don’t ask us for further concessions, since we treat every booking equally. The refundable deposit is only required 28 days before the hiring date and, providing there are no problems, is refunded seven days after the hiring date.

Hire End Times
To help with nuisance to the community, we have also changed the times at which certain activity must cease and when BHVH must be vacated. These are as follows:

Day Available from Music/performance/Alcohol to finish by Premises must be vacated by
Monday – Thursday
8:00am 10:00pm 11:00pm
Friday & Saturday 11:00pm Midnight
Sunday 9:00pm 10:00pm

Security Lock-up
Some of the problems with the hirings mentioned earlier, have been with hirers leaving BHVH later than their hiring end time. Given that all trustees who keep BHVH open, do so on a voluntary basis, we don’t believe it is appropriate to ask trustees to take this responsibility. So we have recently introduced the use of a security firm to ensure BHVH is vacated at the correct time, and to lock up. The firm we use is called Will Secure and they were recommended by Royal Wootton Bassett Rugby Club, who use them in a similar way. The current cost for the lock-up service is £42 incl. VAT. The hirer is responsible for paying this cost, and again, it is due 28 days before the hiring date.

You can read our full Terms & Conditions on the website. https://broadhinton.org.uk/booking/how-to-book/Conditions of Hiring BHVH
Last month we told you about changes to our hiring fees in the light of increased costs. It’s also worth reminding everyone about three specific conditions of hiring BHVH:
1. Refundable Deposit
2. Hire End Times
3. Security Lock-up

Refundable Deposit
Since a couple of years or so ago, we have experienced issues with hirings which either caused damage to the hall and/or disturbance to the community through inconsiderate parking or noise. We therefore needed to mitigate this risk, so well over a year ago, we introduced a refundable deposit. This has been in place for some time.

We realise that the risk for hirings from people who live in the three villages in our community is far less than for those who don’t. Hence the refundable deposit for external hirings is £750, for local people who live in the community, we request a much lower deposit of £250.

Given there is already a concession for local people, please don’t ask us for further concessions, since we treat every booking equally. The refundable deposit is only required 28 days before the hiring date and, providing there are no problems, is refunded seven days after the hiring date.

Hire End Times
To help with nuisance to the community, we have also changed the times at which certain activity must cease and when BHVH must be vacated.

Security Lock-up
Some of the problems with the hirings mentioned earlier, have been with hirers leaving BHVH later than their hiring end time. Given that all trustees who keep BHVH open, do so on a voluntary basis, we don’t believe it is appropriate to ask trustees to take this responsibility. So we have recently introduced the use of a security firm to ensure BHVH is vacated at the correct time, and to lock up. The firm we use is called Will Secure and they were recommended by Royal Wootton Bassett Rugby Club, who use them in a similar way. The current cost for the lock-up service is £42 incl. VAT. The hirer is responsible for paying this cost, and again, it is due 28 days before the hiring date.

You can see the new vacating times in our full Terms & Conditions on the website. https://broadhinton.org.uk/booking/how-to-book/

20/03/2024

BROAD HINTON VILLAGE HALL CAR PARK – Urgent Notice!
The white lines and lettering at the School end of the BHVH car park will be completed on Friday 22nd. We will be closing off that section of the car park with cones on Thursday evening. No parking there on Friday please.

01/03/2024

On Friday 5th April, members of Broad Hinton Amateur Dramatics Society (BHADS) will be in The Crown from 8pm onwards. Come and join us to support The Crown, get news on next year's panto or just chat! It will be great to see you.

01/03/2024

Planned events

https://broadhinton.org.uk/news-events/planned-events/
As you can see from the financial information we shared recently, in our last financial year, we effectively broke even. That’s why we put so much effort into fundraising events, we’d like to give everyone a great time whilst raising money to keep BHVH open for you. During February, we've been planning for this year – we’ve got a packed schedule, so please support us by attending events as often as you can.As