THE VILLAGE CENTRE

The Holmer Green Village Centre started life as a 'Dame's School' (a school run by a single lady as basic education for all children to the age of 14) back in 1909. It is on the site of an earlier school which was demolished to make way for the current building. After what is now Holmer Green Senior School was built in the 1930s the Village Centre had various uses, including as a Home Guard base during World War II, before a fund to create a village hall led to it's opening in 1954 as the major village facility it has become. It was extended by the addition of the Chadwick Hall (named after a long time Chairman) in 1989 and has been extensively renovated in the last few years with improvements that include a new main kitchen, new central heating, repainting inside and re-rendering outside, etc. New lighting in the main hall was installed during February 2009 and a hearing loop was commisioned in May 2009. Over the summer holidays in 2009 further improvements included a new electronic keyboard to replace the ageing piano, a new shutter to improve access from the main hall to its kitchen and three new, smaller, folding tables for use in the halls.

The Village Centre is the only hall in Holmer Green open to all types of events and is run as a charity by a voluntary committee to provide hire facilities to local residents. We operate on the  revenue from regular and casual bookings plus the generous donations of local organisations (including Parish and District Councils) and user groups (including the Holmer Green WI) together with private individuals.

Holmer Green Village Hall is administered by a group of dedicated Committee Members, with an avid desire to enrich the role of the hall within the village and beyond. The Committee meet regularly and is supported by the Centre's four Trustees. The Village Centre Committee is determined to improve services within the Village Centre and is open to ideas from anyone who thinks that the facilities could be improved.

Regular hirers of the halls are invited to attend the quarterly Representatives meeting to raise and discuss any issues that affect them and, in addition, there is an Annual General Meeting open to all interested parties at which the Committee Members and Representatives are elected

HOLMER GREEN VILLAGE CENTRE