This page aims to provide members with information to help with running their buildings and charities. Please feel free to send in anything that you think would be worthwhile adding - email to hello:lavch.org.uk.
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There is now a series called the "Village Hall Podcasts" - which contains numerious 20 minute podcasts giving lots of tips and insights into how halls do things, up and down the country
Essential Reading
The Charity Commission (CC) is the primary site for all information relating to running a Charity - and most if not all of our halls are run as charities. It can be a bit of a minefield to navigate around, though. The following is a link to an organisation that has sifted the most salient pages on the CC site:
https://www.vonne.org.uk/resources/charity-commission-guidance-trustees-and-boards
ACRE's Net Zero Design Guide for Village and Community Halls
Published in March 2024, this is a comprehensive step by step guide to reduce energy consumption and other aspects of reducing our "carbon footprint". Alongside the publication was a very useful presentation, with members of the halls from the featured case studies. This can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Cqckwt_AaNw?si=OAsVkGFKInfkopxf
CC Report into VIllage Halls and Community Centres
Although published in 2004, the report in the above link contains a deal of information and observations still highly pertinent today.
Managing Your Community Building
This document is a veritable treasure trove of information on all aspects of running such a building.
HSE Checklist for Village and Community Halls
The key essential health and safety issues for hall committies.
LAVCH was effectively formed by Community Futures and hence we owe our existence to this organisation. It has helped us extensively in the past, rasing funds, running training and a whole host of other activities. We look forward to our continued partnership with this wonderful organisation. They currently offer a range of services to Village Halls, details of which can be found here.
This page links to their "Rural Funding Digest" page. As well as this useful (though not exhaustive) list of funding opportunites, there is a host of other useful information on the site.
Custodian Trustees, Holding Trustees and Managing Trustees - What's the Difference?
Two articles here which help to clarify the roles of different types of Trustee
This is our current governing document. The administration team are proposing a review and anticipate some modifications will be made over the forthcoming period.