Dinton Village Hall
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Dinton Village Hall
Bratch Lane
Dinton
Wiltshire
SP3 5EB
contact by email
Kathy Seastron
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Dinton Village Hall description
Village Hall / Business Meeting Rooms / Wedding Venues / Community Hall / Commercial Venue
Large (1-300)
Ideal for conferences,corporate days, weddings, parties,training or meetings
Free Wifi
Parking on site for 150 cars
Room 1: Main hall
217 sq.m to seat 200-250, dine 150 or dancing up to 300 without tables/150 with tables.
Separate bar area with bottle fridge and large commercial fridge
Equipped with crockery, cutlery, table linen and glassware to cater for up to 150
3.5m square electrically operated overhead screen and projector
Lectern with built in microphone/light
Dimmable lights
Large stage 7m x 5m with two separate changing rooms with toilet facilities. Box curtains and front stage curtains. Stage lighting
Hearing loop, PA system and Yamaha digital piano
Room 2 - Meeting room
Projector screen
Fully heated and air conditioned
Capacity 40 theatre style
Kitchen
900mm Falcon electric cooker, three hot cupboards, Hobart commercial dishwasher, full stainless steel Moffat kitchen, 2 x large urns, fridge/freezer, extraction system, two preparation tables.
Venue suitability
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Venue facilities
150 spaces
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15 round tables, 22 rectangle tables
200 chairs
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Upcoming events are shown below:
Dinton & District Short Mat Bowls Club
Every Wednesday 1900-2200 (from 26 September 2018 to 1 May 2019)
Most Wednesdays
Contact Dave Witt - 01722 716553
Itskin Designs Painting
every Thursday (from 14 March 2019 to 25 July 2019)
Come and paint the beautiful projects or bring your own inspiration. Sessions will be held every Thursday at Dinton Village Hall (Bratch Lane, Dinton, SP3 5EB). Only 15 places per session! Message me for booking.
Price: £20.00 per person via PayPal: www.paypal.me/instantmasterpiece/20(change to 40 for 2 places, 60 for 3 etc, please state the date of the session in the note).
You can also pay on the door, however place is not guaranteed on the day - please click "Going" on the event page and message me your name and amount of places you require.
No experience is ever needed to take part.
I will provide all the kit and all the guidance you need to create your own fantastic painting! At the end of the class you will have a one of a kind piece of artwork to take home.
You will have a wonderful time and learn a few painting tricks along the way.
CONTACT:
Website http://www.itskindesigns.co.uk
Cuppa Chat
every other Monday (from 25 March 2019 to 27 May 2019)
Coffee morning every other Monday 10am
Yoga
28 April 2019
Yoga with Sarah
Intro to Yoga in Dinton
Sunday 28th April 0930-1100
£7
Contact Sarah 07804 237512 / yoga_with_sarah@outlook.com
45 mins of yoga and time for a chat
A New Day For Dawn - Spring Fayre
11 May 2019
1 - 4pm
Our Spring Fayre is being held to raise money for medical support for one of our former Nursery parent’s, Dawn Conrad. She lives in Wilton with her husband and young son.
Dawn suffers from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and has been living and coping with the serious complications of this for many years.
The illness has drastically impacted on both her and her family and you may have seen in the local and national press that the recent withdrawal of expensive medical treatment has been devastating and has had further detrimental impact.
We want to raise as much as possible to help towards these costs and to give Dawn her life back.
Latest news:
New website!
20 June 2018
Our new website is now live!
Check out the beautiful photos showing our fab facilities in the lovely sunshine.
You can also check us out on Facebook :)
Regular users of this venue:
Dinton & District Short Mat Bowls Club
Contact: Dave Witt - 01722 716553
Regular Wednesday evening club nights
Dinton Historical Society
Contact: Sue Gillingham - 01722 717865
Membership of Dinton Historical Society for 2018 has been held at the already low last years prices. Single Membership costs £8 and Couple Membership costs £10. Members gain free admission to seven lectures over the year, plus the chance to join four local outings and two social gatherings. Please come to any meeting to join or contact Sue Gillingham on 01722 717865.
Dinton Womens Institute
Contact: 01722 717881
Meetings 2nd Wednesday of every month except August 1000-1200
Visit the Dinton WI website at http://dintonwi.weebly.com/
Current vacancies:
Bookings Clerk and Cleaner required
Closing date: 30 April 2019
We are looking for a new bookings clerk Who with the help of all trustees will take bookings and arrange viewings with other board members. Please contact us if you're interested.
Cleaner position is a paid position please contact us for details.
History of our village hall
Our village hall came into being in 1920 thanks to two benefactors, Bertram Phillips and Daniel Combes. Mr. Phillips paid for the original building and Mr. Combes paid for the plot of land owned by Alfred Lane, a carpenter, where Old Hall House now stands in Bratch Lane. It was originally an officer’s mess building and was hauled by horse and cart from Codford. Over the years wooden huts deteriorate and as with many village halls during the latter part of the 20th century, they were a money pit constantly needing maintenance. They were also fairly primitive, relative to today’s standards, so there was not much income to be made by hiring out the premises. It was purely for village use.
The idea of a new hall was first conceived about 1986 and in 1988, probably as the result of rumours about a new hall being planned by the village hall trustees, came an offer from a local developer to buy the existing hall. That started discussions in earnest, although that sale never took place. Eventually it was agreed that we could build it on the Recreation Ground as no other land was available. Plans were drawn and outline planning permission eventually granted in 1989. Fundraising began and the village came together to organise fundraising events such as clay shoots, sponsored runs and raffles as well as donations from villagers. There were also various charitable organisations that offered grants once we could get a reasonable fund built, but we knew it would be a very long campaign if we were to succeed.
With the announcement in November 1992 that the closure of RAF Chilmark would take place in 1995, an opportunity presented itself to acquire a piece of land more suitable than the Recreation Ground. A letter was immediately sent to the RAF requesting the gift of some land to build a village hall. It took a further five years to get to an agreement in which the Ministry of Defence sold us the present site for a very reasonable price. It was the last sale of its kind that was not at market value. Another stroke of luck came in 1994 with the launch of the National Lottery. Realistically there was no way we would ever raise enough money as inflation was increasing the build cost faster than we could raise funds. The Lottery was the one chance we had of getting the large amount of funding to make our dreams come true. At our third application, we were given a grant of £132,000. With the sale of the old hall for £75,000 and a very remarkable amount given by the village of about £40,000 plus other grants, we were ready to build. One small problem was that our original build cost was four years out of date and the Lottery made it clear that if we exceeded our budget we would get no more from them. We had come this far and fortune favours the brave so we went for it. Unable to afford professional site agents to manage the project we did the job ourselves. Everything had come together and from breaking ground to opening only took nine months and remarkably it was completed within the original budget.
Trustees of Dinton Village Hall
Chairman - Ross Cowan
Vice Chairman - Kathy Seastron
Treasurer - Helen Bridge
Secretary - Helen Bridge
Bookings Secretary - Kathy Seastron
Maintenance - Rob Begg
Committee member - Sue Gillingham
Dinton Parish Council Rep - Justin Fry
Committee member - Andrew Swannel
We are always looking for new trustees, please contact us if you're interested.
Price List
Basic Rate
Meeting Room £7.00 per hour
Hall £20.00 per hour
Kitchen £20.00 per session
Special Offers
Weddings – 2 day hire £350.00
Childrens’ birthday parties £10.00 per hour
Available to hire on request*
Round/oblong/square linen table cloths
Linen napkins
Crockery
Cutlery
Glassware
Audio Visual and Lighting equipment
*extra charge may be incurred
We are flexible on pricing so please get in touch if you're interested in hiring the hall.
For all information please contact:
Kathy Seastron
Tel: 07548 614470
Email: kathyseastron@hotmail.com
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