Bellsquarry Village Hall

Great turn out at our meeting last night - thank you to everyone who joined us. The committee still have a lot of work to do but we remain hopeful that the hall can survive 🤞

Please join us tonight if you can. All welcome 😊

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Some more information from West Lothian Council on the Community Centre review currently taking place is now available on their website - please take a look if you can.
We will be contacting all of our regular hall users soon to let them know how things currently stand and we will be holding a public meeting on Thursday 22nd August.

Community Centres and Village Halls - Consultation - West Lothian Council West Lothian Council has begun a consultation with Management Committees on the future provision of community facilities, including community centres and village halls.

Repost . Think how many clubs, small businesses, voluntary organisation would disappear if there were no premises left in WL. 😱. Please join us at our open meeting and support us and all your local community centers/ halls. Xx

Important news about the future of Bellsquarry Village Hall - please read.

You will no doubt be aware of the huge financial pressures currently facing West Lothian Council and with that in mind they are currently undertaking a community centre review. The council need to make a £1.073 million saving on their community centre budget by April 2026 and so the way they manage our community centres and village halls will have to drastically change.

At the moment we have 3 options open to us:

1. Community Asset Transfer - management committee assume full ownership of the hall and all costs associated
2. Full repair and lease agreement - council retains ownership of the building but management committee are responsible for running of the hall and all costs associated
3. Recharging to management committee - Council recharge all hall costs to management committee

As a committee, this is incredibly daunting as we are a small group of volunteers who give up our time to run the hall. For any of the options above and ultimately to keep the hall open, we will need the support of our hall users and especially our community in Bellsquarry.

We would like to invite you along to a public meeting on Thursday 22nd August at 7pm so that we can share more information with you and more importantly, hear your views on the future of the hall.

In the meantime, the hall is absolutely open as usual and we have some space for new lets. We have never needed your support more than we do now so if you are looking for a venue for a party or you’re thinking of starting a new class please get in touch.

Thank you

Important news about the future of Bellsquarry Village Hall - please read.

You will no doubt be aware of the huge financial pressures currently facing West Lothian Council and with that in mind they are currently undertaking a community centre review. The council need to make a £1.073 million saving on their community centre budget by April 2026 and so the way they manage our community centres and village halls will have to drastically change.

At the moment we have 3 options open to us:

1. Community Asset Transfer - management committee assume full ownership of the hall and all costs associated
2. Full repair and lease agreement - council retains ownership of the building but management committee are responsible for running of the hall and all costs associated
3. Recharging to management committee - Council recharge all hall costs to management committee

As a committee, this is incredibly daunting as we are a small group of volunteers who give up our time to run the hall. For any of the options above and ultimately to keep the hall open, we will need the support of our hall users and especially our community in Bellsquarry.

We would like to invite you along to a public meeting on Thursday 22nd August at 7pm so that we can share more information with you and more importantly, hear your views on the future of the hall.

In the meantime, the hall is absolutely open as usual and we have some space for new lets. We have never needed your support more than we do now so if you are looking for a venue for a party or you’re thinking of starting a new class please get in touch.

Thank you

We now have space on Thursday evenings for a new let. 7.30 onwards. Community groups, craft groups.dance, exercise! 🙂

For info xx💃

Wee reminder 😎

AGM. Friday 24th November 7pm. All welcome. Tea , coffee,wine & nibbles 🙂

What's On. . Please contact Individual groups for more info/ specific times. . If anyone has any ideas for crafty type let's,let me know.🤔 Friday free all day just now. Let's feel free to add links in the comments. Xx

Monday. Physio Led Pilates. 5.15 -7.15pm
Tuesday. Carol's Hatha Yoga 11-12.30 pm
Debra-Ann School of Dance 5.-7.30
Wednesday. The Story Frog. 9.30 onwards
Claire Anderson Dance 5-6.30
Hatha Moon Yoga 7.30-8 30
Thursday Caterpillar Music 10-12.30
Phoebe Welsh Dance & Fitness
5.30-7.15
Tracey closed group 7.30-9.30
Friday. New let's welcome 🙂
Saturday. Phoebe Welsh Dance 9-10am
Sunday Na Laochra Irish Dance 11-12
Salsa Dance Classes 6.30-8.30

Sunday evenings x💃🏼

For info xx💃

Due to a change in my personal circumstances and a shortage of volunteers, I have made the decision to close the café. 😥
Thanks to everyone who has supported myself and the cafe over the last 8 months 👏👏

In support of Bellsquarry Primary Schools coffee morning, the cafe will be closed this Friday, the 16th of June.
Our regulars are welcome to attend the school for their coffee from 11.30 when the brass band will be playing 🎵🎶🎺

hi. Can all hall lets please ping me a message if you are not using hall anytime in the school summer holidays. be a great help. thanks xx

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our First Aid awareness session today - we hope you found it useful 🚨 We are considering running a mental health awareness course in the future, please let us know if you would be interested.

Our trainer was Phil from First Aid Matters, check out his website for more details.

First Aid Matters provides first aid training in Scotland First Aid Matters Scotland provide training courses in first aid, manual handling, fire training, health & safety and abrasive wheels to all UK business.

Thanks to the pop up school uniform shop being held in the cafe yesterday we had our busiest day yet 😁
It was great to welcome our regular customers and many new ones, some of whom will hopefully become regulars.
I would also like to thank those who took the time to help out when we were at our busiest. Extra pairs of hands are always welcome 🤗

All set up and ready to go.
Lots of lovely pieces of school uniform available for a small donation 😁

Excited to be hosting the school uniform shop tomorrow 😀
Please note: there is no cost for our ☕🫖🍪🌭 etc but where possible we appreciate a CASH donation xx

Friday 2nd June we will be hosting the pop up school uniform shop in our pop up café 😊

If you have a couple of hours spare to help out tomorrow id love to see you.😊
Don't be shy 😁

Good morning 🌞
If any of you lovely people have a couple of hours to spare this Friday 26th May I'd love it if you could come along to the cafe and lend a hand ☺️
Please contact the hall directly if you can help 🙏