The latest news from Hunsonby Community Centre

Keep up to date with the latest news, updates and goings on at Hunsonby.



WI patchwork installed

A wall hanging celebrating 80 years of the Addingham WI (1921-2001) can now be enjoyed in the Community Centre

Jubilee Walled Garden making progress

Work is underway to create a community garden to be enjoyed by everyone. We have repaired the wall, fitted a new gate, pruned the ancient apple trees and planted three new trees to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. In the autumn we plan to get rid of the thistles, re-seed and then install a picnic… Read more »

Our new book on sale now

‘Hunsonby & Winskill 2020’ is still available. It is a remarkable record of the villages in 2020 but also includes the history of our villages. £10 a copy, buy two for £15. Contact Bryan Gray, Becci Cook or Julie Ullyart. All profits go to the Centre and Pool.

Committee Meetings 2022

  Here are the dates for the committee meetings  for the Hunsonby Community Centre taking place in 2022: Tuesday 11 January 2022 Tuesday 19 April 2022 (AGM) Tuesday 12 July 2022 Tuesday 11 October 2022

Our Community Centre is now open!

Work was finally completed at the end of March. The Centre is now available for hire, subject to Covid restrictions. We have held a number of ‘open days’ so that people can see the Centre. If you missed these and would like to look round, please contact a member of the committee. Thanks to everyone… Read more »

Main Work Complete – February 2021

We are delighted to share with you that the main work to refurbish and extend our Community Centre is now complete. We hope you will agree from the images below that the centre has undergone a significant transformation over the last 18 months and whilst we were slightly hampered by COVID-19 our building contract Bowmans… Read more »

Building work update Sept 2020

Work is well underway with the shell of the new extension largely complete. Work is underway inside lining the walls, putting in the new walls in the extension and making the building damp proof.

Hunsonby and Winskill 2020

In the year 2000 an album was produced of residents of the two villages in front of their houses. It is hard to imagine, but this was before the age of digital camera and smartphones. We are planning to repeat the exercise and record the village and its residents 20 years on – “Hunsonby and… Read more »

Update on our renovation

We are delighted to say that we have raised over £300,000 to fully renovate the Community Centre and create a warm, modern space accessible for everyone. We are grateful to our large grant funders – The National Lottery Community Fund, Sport England and ACRE. We have also received a number of smaller grants which enabled… Read more »

‘Hallmark’ – a quality standards scheme for village halls

In October 2019 we learned that we had successfully met the standard to achieve Hallmark One. This is a national quality scheme which assesses all aspects of how village halls are run. We were very pleased to achieve this because it gives everyone confidence that we are running the Community Centre professionally and to a… Read more »

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