How to get to the Hall

The address is 125 Church Street, Whaddon; the postcode is SG8 5RY. Here is a Google Map of the area:

The general contact email for the Village Hall and Recreation Ground Trust is whaddonhalltrust [at] whaddon.org.

The Lettings Officer and Vice-Chairman of the Trust, Wendy Evans, can be contacted via the above email address or on 01223 207703.

Individual Trust members are listed on an adjacent tab. They can be contacted via the above email address.

While the hall awaits refurbishment, there are not a huge number of bookings. In all cases, the ultimate check should be made with Wendy Evans (01223 207703). However, there are certain regular uses of which those wanting to book the hall should be aware:

Tai Chi classes:

Tinytalk: Monday mornings

Parish Council: second Monday, from 19:30 (except August and December)

The Whaddon Village Hall and Recreation Ground Trust

Until November 2010, the Hall was run by a committee of the Parish Council--the Village Hall Management Committee. To enable the raising of funds which are beyond the scope of the PC, it was decided to set up a Charitable Trust, running the hall and rec for the village on a long lease from the PC. Such a Charity can apply for funding of types which a public body cannot.

The Trust held its first meeting on 15 November 2010, at which point its membership was confirmed and officers elected, all to hold office until its first AGM in 2011. Charity law requires a trust such as this to have a majority of members nominated by users of the hall and rec, as well as a number of elected members. The initial composition is:

The following dates are the scheduled meetings for the Trust in 2012:

Tuesday February 7th | Minutes
Monday March 5th | Agenda
Tuesday April 3rd
Monday May 7th
Tuesday June 12th
Monday July 2nd
Tuesday August 7th
Monday September 3rd
Tuesday October 2nd
Monday November 5th
Tuesday December 4th

Meetings take place at 20:00 in the Village Hall. Agendas will follow.

The following minutes of meetings are available

Here are the current plans for the extension and refurbishment of our Village Hall. The project is in two phases which we plan to run one immediately after the other.

Essentially we are going to preserve the existing building but bring it up to date thoroughly, with a new floor, a proper heating system, good insulation, new electrics and a general refurbishment of the windows and redecoration. 

Before the main hall is tackled, however, we plan to knock down the existing flat roofed building at the rear and replace it with a bigger, more stylish building that will become our second hall. This will allow us to provide a new larger kitchen, located centrally with serving access to both halls, together with new toilets with disabled facilities, again to be accessed from both halls. There will be a single main entrance to the halls, relocated in central position on the playing field side. This will be covered by the roof of the new hall which will also cover a new veranda facing the field. Much more storage space will be provided plus a boiler/pump room to service both halls. Currently we are looking at the best type of heating system for the hall but are keen to be as ‘eco friendly’ as possible.

We envisage that the new, smaller hall will be a very attractive venue for many types of function, in particular for parties, clubs and play groups, youth activities and committee meetings, while the old hall will be a far more attractive venue for larger events and some indoor sports activities (carpet bowls, table tennis etc).

The plans were approved by South Cambridgeshire District Council in December 2008. The approved plans will be found below.

Below are small images of the plans we have so far. Clicking on the images will download PDF files of about 220k each to your computer. You can view these on screen or print them at whatever size you want. The plans are reproduced courtesy of our architects, the Sharman Knowles Partnership.

• Whaddon Village Hall letting agreement (PDF)
• Whaddon Village Hall Marquee letting agreement (PDF)