VILLAGE HALL
100 APPEAL
Thank you for your interest in our project to renovate the Tynemouth Village Hall. The Hall has been at the heart of our community, supporting its groups and activities, for almost 100 years. As the Hall approaches its centenary year we are pressing forward to make the building secure and relevant to the needs of the next generation. Our goal is to make the structure of the building sound and reformat the interior to make it more user friendly and flexible. This will take substantial funds and we are making good progress thanks to the generous support of trust funds. However, we need the backing of the wider community, which is where you can help. Please support this project to keep the Tynemouth Village Hall open to community use into its next 100 years.
Why we need to do the work
The last 100 years have taken their toll on the building. The back wall of the Hall is bowed and becoming unsafe, the window frames are rotting way, the heating system is over 30 years old, inefficient and polluting, there is damp and poor insulation....you get the picture. We would also like to make the building more practical and flexible to suit current and future demands.
The plan in 1925
What we plan to do
We will sort out the structural problems and make the building sound, warm, and better for the environment.
Dependent on funding, we will restructure the interior by removing the stage area and bringing the kitchen forward. This will create space for a new meeting room with its own facilities, providing more flexibility and storage.
How much will it cost?
Current estimates stand at £900,000 to complete the work. We hope to raise the majority of this through applications to trust funds and from reserves held by Holy Saviour's Church. However, we know that our community is key to this project and we hope that a proportion of the funding will be raised locally by donations.
When do we hope to complete the Hall?
We should be starting the work in 2026 and hope to have it completed before the end of the Hall's centenary year so that we can celebrate 100 years of service to the community with the reopening of the Hall, looking forward to the next century of community life.
The Hall in 2025