Fundraising & Renovation News

What a month it’s been: one new kitchen roof, four new toilet cubicles, one disabled access and baby-changing room, one new porch roof, metres and metres of new external woodwork and countless volunteer hours to clean, paint, clean, paint and clean once more and… we’re up and running again! The Hall looks fantastic and we can’t wait to share all the shiny newness with you.  There are so many people

By the time you read this, the Hall will be about to close for a month for some long-awaited major renovation work. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery, Severn Trent, The Bernard Sunley Foundation, Twemlows Community Fund, Marches Energy Advice and, of course, the support of our lovely customers, we have been able to fund beautiful new toilets, including much-needed disabled access and baby changing facilities,  replacement of the

Just as you think it can’t get any better, this happens: The Trustees are thrilled to announce that we are the lucky recipients of another major grant… We have been awarded £18,600 by the Severn Trent Community Fund towards our roof repairs. This means we are only a few thousand pounds short of being able to do all our roof repairs so if you, or anyone you know, work for a company who has a

Now that the local elections in England and Wales are over, we are finally allowed to share our latest financial good news and it’s a big one! We have been granted a massive £20,000 from The National Lottery to refurbish our rather dated toilets. Work will start in the middle of August for four weeks and will include much-needed disabled access facilities and baby changing as well as new cubicles

Another busy month in Ackleton has just gone by and we have so much good news to share! Firstly, at the end of March, we were successful in our application to the Shropshire Grassroots Fund, administered by Community Resource; we were awarded £1000, which we have put towards 8 new foldable trestle tables.  Further good news came at the beginning of April when we heard from the Bernard Sunley Foundation

The first two months of the year have been pretty exciting for Ackleton Village Hall – it’s hard to know where to start! Having reached our latest fundraising target, we handed the keys of the hall over to Luke and the team from Standford Building and landscaping on the 27th January. Just one week later, they returned them to us and we were the proud owners of a brand new, non-bouncing floor!  Then it was