As you may recall, Kaber Village Hall Trust (“the Charity”) had difficulties because all committee members were automatically made legal Trustees of the charity and there had to be 10 such Trustees.
As part of the work that the people you elected to run the hall in October 2023 agreed to undertake was to update all this, so that the people running the hall did not need to be Trustees of the Charity and we had a more realistic number of Trustees (given the size of the community).
Fixing the Problem
The complexity in fixing this situation is that it involved amending the Charity’s “governing document” held by the Charity Commission – not trivial!
Fortunately, our Chair (Sarah Lofthouse) is a past master at “Charity-Commission-wrangling” , and following a couple of meetings/telephone conferences and letters we have a proposed new Governing Document (based on their requirements) which we have submitted and are awaiting their approval.
However, this also requires changes to the way we run the hall, and we wanted to update you on this – and that’s really what this post is all about….
Re-organisation
We have created a Working Group to run the Hall. This is composed of the FOUR Trustees, and others they appoint to help (the people you all know).
We were looking at how our funds were behaving, nine months after the AGM, and the results show just how well you have done! – the Village Hall has more in the bank now than it did in September. Thank you to all the community who have supported the Hall by gifts of time, money or cooking – or just by supporting the events.
Learn More
We created a poster to provide some more detail on “the money”. You can see it if you click this link…The First Nine Months
More Events Planned
PS – the poster also talks about new events, like The Kaber Show and barbecue on 7th September, Bingo and Hot-dogs, on 6th July and plans for “club nights” on Thursdays all this alongside Craft club on Tuesdays and Coffee Mornings on the third Saturday of each month!
What a great community you are, this week has seen a demonstration of the many ways pulling together makes life fun…
With Dibber in hand – a keen bingo! player
It’s been a busy week in the village hall (and the village in general).
We had a coffee morning a week ago (Saturday morning), well attended with more than twenty arriving, and an abundant supply of cakes (it would seem that cheese scones are more popular than blueberry muffins – a surprise to the author!)
On Monday we had a Domino Drive, (very well organised by Lillian & James.) This was also well attended and according to one member of the household “it was quite competitive” – and she won a prize (although it was the “booby” prize 😢 )
Then yesterday afternoon we held a Family Bingo event run by Anne and Dan from Heggerscale, who also provided all the bingo “machinery”. I’ve never heard a quieter group of children than when Anne said “eyes down” at the start of each round. (although the arrival of the hotdogs also seemed to suppress the chattering!) Lots of prizes were won too, and it was nice to hear requests that we run another one soon!…. We might be needing a bigger hall, as it was completely packed!
Aside from lots of community spirit, these events also raised a bunch of funds for the hall. You’ll be pleased to hear that the Bingo raised £128, when added to £74.55 at the coffee morning and £107 for the dominoes evening that’s a grand total of £309.55 👏👏👏 Well done all round.
This fund raising more than paid for the new secondary double glazing we installed on the rear window – so hopefully the hall will be cheaper to heat (and warmer too)….
… and on that note; another “thank you” to Lillian for persuading Alistair Hanna from Brough to come and inspect the gas heater in the hall – it was pronounced “good”, so now we will get the old gas tank removed, and new bottles fitted and he will come back and service and commission it…
…and in yet more heat-related news, Jason Winder came and fitted additional loft insulation, so now we have the recommended 300mm – so a warm thank you Jason .
In wider news, we understand that B4RN has raised all the money needed to start on the installation of our all-fibre gigabit internet, so we will be joining the internet revolution within the year (hopefully). Thanks go to a number of volunteers around the village for making this happen, with notable mentions to Mike Bidgeway for his stoic and persistent campaigning over the years, to Liz Staley for galvanising the community into supporting the project and Julie Lane for all the work on way-leaves – well done all.
What’s Next?
Whist! With a “learn to play Whist” session on the 10th of May at 7:30pm – this time for a Brain Tumour charity – another “Fisher-related Production!”…. come and be educated, fed, raffled and maybe even a few more games of Dominoes are promised!
So, you all deserve a pat on the back, for pulling together to make fine things happen – Well Done Kaber!
Kaber Village Hall 