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ABOUT OUR VILLAGE HALL
Welcome to Dry Doddington Village Hall
Please find below links to information about the village hall:
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Rooms & amenities
The village hall has recently undergone a refurbishment to make it lighter, warmer, modern, and more useful to our customers.
Main hall
The main hall is a large, light and open square space that is 11 x 10 metres in size. There are plenty of tables and chairs available to be used in the hall.
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In addition there is a serving hatch directly into the hall from the kitchen.
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Conference room
For smaller gatherings we have a conference room, measuring 6 x 4 metres, also available with tables and chairs. This too has a serving hatch from the kitchen.
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Kitchen
Our newly refurbished and modern kitchen, measuring 4 x 2 metres, has all the mod cons for your event. This includes an oven, microwave, dishwasher, fridge, freezer and boiling water taps.
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There is a fire regulation limit of 200 people allowed in the hall at any one time.
On site car parking
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Free wifi
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Air conditioning
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Tables & chairs
Full disabled access​
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Disabled toilet
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Ladies & gents toilets
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Use of outside green
Latest improvements
During the encumbant committee's period (2019 to present), they have been working hard to make some significant improvements to the villlage hall to ensure its place in the community for many years to come.
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These logos represent the groups and bodies that have helped and financed the improvement projects to the hall. The National Lottery Community Fund gave us the impetus to begin the projects with a very welcome £9,000.
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Our very own Parish Councillors sanctioned payments to complete stage one of the alterations and full insulation of the main rooms, and finance of a brand new kitchen.
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The grants from SKDC enabled us to resurface our main hall floor, and put in new external doors.
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Invest SK's financial help through Covid was greatly received.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation funded the installation of wifi along with the first year's payments. They also funded some of the village's much needed food distribution during the Covid period.
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Finally, but not least, The Princes Countryside Fund who are now helping us with our Cafe proposals and relevant needs associated with its success.
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All of this has enabled us to add the following improvements:
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A brand new kitchen;
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A newly laid and polished hall floor;
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A new path to the entrance of the hall;
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Newly insulated roof and walls in the main hall and the meeting room;
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Upgraded heating;
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Newly painted and decorated throughout;
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New lighting and sound system;
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New external doors;
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New ladies and gents toilets;
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Newly installed wifi;
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Significant maintenace improvements such as resealing all windows, repainting of the hall and outside railings, new kitchen shutters, fixes to roof tiles and guttering, new outside water and electrical facilities.
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We are all extremely grateful to every one of those whose help and financial assistance has played a huge part in the improvements to the village hall. We would like to say a very special thanks to our Parish Councillors who throughout these last two years have given us tremendous encouragement which helped us so much when it was needed.
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From all the trustees - thank you.
Our new look village hall:
Committee team
The committee's aim is to keep the sense of community in Dry Doddington village with the village hall being the hub.
The committee facilitate various activities and events for all ages and hire out the hall either on a regular basis or for one off events, such as birthday parties or wedding receptions.
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We are always looking for fresh ideas and people to join the committee to help in the running, promotion & improvement of the village hall & the events that are put on. So if you'd like to get involved please contact us.
Dry Doddington Village Hall is a charitable trust being run by local volunteers that include:
Richard Cooling-Brown - Chair
Brian Beddows - Vice Chair
Debbie Yates - Secretary
Phill Richmond - Treasurer
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Dry Doddington Village Hall is a registered charity - charity number 521834.
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History of Dry Doddington Village Hall
The village hall was built as a national school in 1872. The original plaster cast marking the opening can be seen on the east facing wall in the apex of the building today.
The school was extremely successful and was highly rated for many years but unfortunately, the loss of the highly respected Head Teacher initiated a reduction of staff over the following few years and it was eventually closed on the 21st of May 1926.
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It reopened once again on the 14th of January 1929 but only for children under the age of nine years old.
This continued until the 28th of March 1961 when the school finally closed for good when all the pupils transferred to Claypole or Long Bennington.
The school was eventually purchased from the Lincoln Diocesan Board of Finance with full approval by the Minister for Education (1962) for the sum of £85. The full conveyance completed on the 4th of March 1965.
The property, now known as Dry Doddington Village Hall, is held in trust and was registered on the 29th of June 1965 with the Charity Commission.
It is for the use of the residents of Dry Doddington and the surrounding neighbourhoods, with the object of improving life and recreation for those residents and as a result of the trustees sourcing funding, the village hall was completely rebuilt in 1996.
In 2020 the Village Hall secured funding which allowed a revamp of the 25 year old building to its present beautiful condition as you see it today.