CALLING ALL LADIES
If you haven’t already done so, do get in touch with the Village Halls staff and buy your tickets for the Pamper Evening on Friday 22nd June from 7pm to 10pm. Tickets to include a glass of bubbles are just £5 with all proceeds going to the Hook Village Halls charity. There will be lots of stalls to wonder around and buy from and great treatments to book in to try out.
Get a group of friends together and come along for an enjoyable girls’ night out.
HALLS FOR HIRE
Halls 2 and 3 at the Elizabeth Hall, in keeping with the rest of the building, have been refurbished and freshly painted. The space in hall 2 has been better utilised and giving plenty of room for a meeting or party.
If you need to arrange a child’s birthday party, with prices starting at around £9 per hour, the Community Centre and Elizabeth Hall offer 7 varied sized halls for hire to suit meetings, classes and parties. Hook residents can book the large halls in both venues for as little as £17 per hour with amazing 3 hour children’s party rates starting at £29. Visit www.hookvillagehalls.org.uk for all the rates. For more information and to book contact Hook Village Halls on 01256 764000 or email enquiries@hookvillagehalls.org.uk.
CALLING CRAFTERS
As part of the Hook Village Show, which is being project led by Hook Lions, Hook Village Halls will be benefitting from the Craft Fayre in the Community Centre. Entry to Hook Community Centre is free so come along and discover the great crafts that will be on sale.
So if you are interested in taking part in the craft fayre, get in touch with the village halls team on 01256 764000 or email enquiries@hookvillagehalls.org.uk. Stalls are just £25 for the day and include a table and two chairs.
With more help and more volunteers the Hook Village Show promises to be bigger and better this year!
MORE VILLAGE HALLS EVENTS TO PUT IN YOUR DIARY
In addition to external organisations hiring the village halls, HVHCA also runs a few events and activities, which they hope to build on, to keep our village halls alive and vibrant and to help with fundraising.
On Sunday 9th September the Village Halls are joining forces with the Hook Allotment Association and Hook In Bloom to bring the village the Hook Flower & Produce Show and the Hook In Bloom presentation. Again another very popular village event. Look at the Hook in Bloom article to see how you too can get involved.
Tables are also being booked well in advance for our Music and Paella Evening on Saturday 22nd September. The tickets are just £20 per person and includes food and a live band from Guildford called The Famous Five. Plus there’s also a cash bar. The Famous Five band is very popular so the evening should be great fun.
Friday 28th September 10am to Noon – come along to Hook Community Centre and enjoy a cup of coffee and delicious cake and raise money for Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.
Another popular event where tickets are selling well in advance is the Laughterhouse Comedy Night, on Saturday 20th October, which is being organised by Jan Jacks who runs the Basingstoke Laughterhouse Comedy Club. At the last comedy evening The Elizabeth Hall was filled with laughter and now the comedians have gauged Hook as an audience, this year’s should be even better. The cost is just £14.50 per ticket again there’s a cash bar.
Children’s Halloween Party is on Friday 26th October from 2.30pm to 4.30pm in the Elizabeth Hall – more details nearer the day. Then on Saturday 9th February 2019 plans are afoot for a Valentine themed Ceilidh. So another lively village gathering!
OUR REGULAR CALL FOR TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS
Play a positive part in the success of our village halls! Join the group of volunteer Hook Village Halls Charitable Association trustees/directors and have your say and input into the future of our halls and how they are run.
Interested? Need more information? Just drop the village halls manager, John Watson – john.watson@hookvillagehalls.org.uk an email to arrange an informal chat.
KEEP AN EYE ON OUR WEBSITE AND FACEBOOK PAGE
for information about our hirers and especially new ones. Jane Aston will be starting fitness classes with us in the next couple of months and MHA Live at Home scheme took up residence in the Elizabeth Hall recently. So keep up to date and keep an eye on social media too.
(Please can you put the addresses somewhere on the page – thanx)
Elizabeth Hall, Raven Road, RG27 9HH
Hook Community Centre, Ravenscroft, RG27 9NN
Due to unforeseen circumstances Hook Village Halls Charitable Association reserves the right to alter or cancel any of the above events. E&OE