Village Hall

	Cawston Village Hall High St, Cawston, NR10 4BW
	*"The Cecil Cawston Memorial Institute"*

The hall is available for hire for weddings, parties, etc. at reasonable prices.

	Hire of Main Hall	£6.50 per hour
	Hire of Bar Room	£6.50 per hour
	All Day Hire of whole village hall	£130.00
	Hire for commercial purposes	£13.00 per hour per room
	Cooker / Hub unit if required £5.00

Contact Beryl Rounce on 01603 871356 for bookings or Des Cook (chairman) on 01603 872111 for more information about current groups meeting at the hall.

In 1912 our Village Hall was opened as the Cecil Cawston Memorial Institute in memory of Cecil Cawston (See Village Hall History link) and has served the community from that time.

Located in the High Street on the Aylsham – Reepham road (See links Where to find us & Guide Map) and is used by a variety of local organisations including the Village Hall Social Club supporting both young people and adults. In addition to the village based organisations the Village Hall is also hired for occasional or regular functions and activities for weddings, parties, dances, training classes etc, Broadland District Council Information Service, the Parish Council and for the local polling station.

Adjacent to the hall at the rear is the very large and well equipped Oakes Family Field. A large car park is at the front.

The hall have disability access, entrance area with separate ladies and gents toilets and separate disability toilet, large lounge bar room with snooker table and large function room with kitchen and also a room for the Cawston Archive.


RelatedLinks: Village Hall Calendar	Village Hall History	Improvements

Village Hall August 2008

Improvements

Improvements are always on going, some of which are listed below:

2010:-

Feb:- walls insulated.

March:- The new Air Source heating system and roof insulation at now completed. The start date had to be delayed, not for the usual reasons but because the hall was too heavily booked to allow the disruption the work would cause!

Work started for the windows to be replaced.

May:-The Village Hall held an OPEN DAY on Saturday MAY 8^th for parishioners and other organisations to find out all about and admire our new green. heating system. The varied users of the Hall were represented, this was very a successful day complete with and tea and HOME MADE CAKE! Related Link: Village Hall History

August:- All windows replaced and curtains in main hall and bar room replaced.

2009:-

Chill Out - Heat the Hall:-

The Village Hall committee has been successful in its grant application to Broadland District Council for funding for a new, green, Mitsubishi air source central heating system and the Insulation of the Hall. Excellent news, we now look forward to seeing real progress with the proposed improvements. We know that this is just the start of a very exciting phase of improvements for our village facilities. We are all thrilled that the extensive and time consuming efforts have proved worthwhile. Watch this space for next update.

Upgrades carried out for health and safety. New stage and storage spaces erected. Extra shelves fitted in cupboards, new window blind and storage cupboard sorted in kitchen. Roof space cleared. New Vacuum Cleaner.

2006 - 2008:-

Over the last two years you might have noticed changes to the village hall. As a committee we have been committed to upgrading the hall.

Lighting. in the main hall and kitchen sunk into the ceiling.
Additional store rooms have been created in the entrance area to enable a complete reorganization of the storage facilities. We now have a separate room for the Cawston History Archive which is in association with the Cawston Historical Society who have their equipment in the same room, the toddlers and arts and crafts share a store adjacent to the kitchen. The storage area in the entrance area is kept for tables and chairs and for the CATs group and the Brownies.

More recently the toilets have been completely refitted thanks to funding from the Barratt Trust, Parish Council and Carnival Committee. This means that the ladies, gents and disabled toilet facilities have been refurbished. Additionally, there is now a baby changing table for the toddler group.
Security cameras/equipment have been installed outside the Village Hall.
Externally, the car park has been leveled and resurfaced, a notice board and village hall sign erected and work carried out to the exits and exit doors, the timber fence and part of the hall have been treated.

Pre 2006

Major improvements was carried out in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Many thanks for all support for the work carried out and donations from individuals.