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Hempstead Village Hall
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The Street, Hempstead, Holt, NR25 6TL
Registered Charity No. 1213674

Hempstead Village Hall

6th June 2024
6th June 2024

Hempstead Village Hall is available for hire
The hall is charged at £10 per hour for villagers and £12 per hour for non villagers or commercial hire.
To maintain safety, the hall has a MAXIMUM capacity of 80 people standing,
65 seated auditorium style and 54 seated at tables.

Facilities include tables, chairs, plates and cutlery for up to 80 covers. The hall has a good kitchen, a stage and indoor toilets. Also available is an overhead projector with computer connections.
If you wish to Hire the Village Hall, please use this link Village Hall Hire

Hempstead Village Christmas Party
We will be holding a Christmas Party at the Village Hall on Friday 18th December from 7.00pm. Food will be provided by the village with a festive theme. We will provide mulled wine as you arrive but please bring along your own beverages for the rest of the evening.
There will be a raffle and games so please make sure you bring some cash to purchase tickets and you may win a brilliant gift.
This is a free event but if you could advise either Lesley or Sarah if you intend to attend. Thank you

Crafty Creations
now has its own page HERE

The next meetings are -

Saturday 24th October 2.00 - 4.00pm
Monday 2nd November 2.00 - 4.00
Topics to be decided
Thursday 12th November 10.00 - 12.00 Needle Felt
Saturday 28th November 2.00 - 4.00 Christmas Crafts Stars
Saturday 5th December family day 11am - 4pm Christmas wreaths and children’s crafts
Monday 7th December 2.00 - 4.00 Christmas Wreaths
Thursday 17th December 10am-midday Table decorations

Anyone wishing to book please contact Lesley 07446 777660


Village Hall’s 100 Year History Project
We want to create a history of the hall for interest to all this year.
If you have an anecdote of interest a humorous story or a photograph from over the years about the hall’s activities, please let us know.
What has the hall been used for in the past?
Who’s been Involved in looking after the hall during its long life?
Please email with your memories.


Craft Market

October 2026
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2.00 - 4.00pm


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Social Saturday
10.00am
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Village Hall Working Party


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Crafty Creations
10.00 - midday


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Centenary
Tea Party


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2.00 - 4.00pm
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Baconsthorpe
Pop-Up Pub

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Church Meditation
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10.30 - 12.00
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10.00 - 3.00pm

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10.00 - 3.00pm


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10.00 - midday
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Refurbished bench
The two benches adjacent to the Village Hall were refurbished in June 2026.
The chestnut wood came from one of Robin Carver's plantations and was milled by Charles Inglis. Douglas (Dylan) Empson planed the lengths to size, before sanding and sealing them. He then repainted the iron frames, assembled the sections and placed them in situ. 

Village Hall Rear Footpath

The Village Hall Committee has recently been working on a project to improve the footpath that exists to the rear of the hall and comes out onto the top end of The Knoll cul-de-sac. A team of volunteers has been working tirelessly to get this footpath to an improved state over the last couple of months. Although this work will be ongoing for a while, we are clearly now at a good interim stage and final completion will be a while longer due to the expense that is now needed. When completed this footpath will allow much improved wheelchair access and a greater ease of movement of goods to and from the hall. This will ultimately relieve pressure on the roadside verge in front of the Hall.
The Committee are very grateful for the help of others for the very hard work that has been done so far in this project. We would particularly like to express our extreme thanks to Mark Terry for hedge cutting, earth moving and fence erection, Peter Hawkey for the gift of fence posts, wire and labouring,  Jill Roy for organisation and labouring , Mo Williams for bonfire, Johnny Weir for fence work and Glenn Sullivan for transporting debris. Without the help of these we would not be in the position we are now with this project.
Thank you, the Village Hall Committee

Path Construction 2025


Village Hall Village Hall Centenary
Newly painted Village Hall - June 2026 Mike Thody unveiling his 2026 Centenary carving - 14th June 2026

Xmas Party Wine Tasting
Hempstead Christmas Party
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Wine Tasting
Hempstead Arts Crafty Creations
Hempstead Arts
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Crafty Creations Meeting
Craft Weekend
Craft Weekend

HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE HALL COMMITTEE

Chairman:  Richard Roy, The Forge, Hempstead, Holt, NR25 6TP Tel. 01263 715851

Secretary: Lesley Lennox, Marlpits, Hempstead, Holt, NR25 6TS

Treasurer:  Andy Wallis

Committee:  Sarah Middleton, Jill Roy

In an emergency, keys are available from: Richard Roy Tel. 01263 715851 & Sarah Middleton Tel. 07512 582899


If you have any memories, anecdotes, photos or queries, I would be pleased to hear from you.
By all means email or telephone 07836 675369

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