After considerable damage to the rear of this ramp, and a series of screw removals, this ramp became desperately unsafe, and the safety rails were knocked down.  Although the rails were left standing beside the ramp, it took only a few more days before they too were vandalised.
The management of the recreation ground is losing […]

Constructive Criticism Please
Before putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, about the state of Allendale Village Hall, it can be worthwhile remembering that hired staff work 15 hours a week (10 hours for the caretaker, 5 hours for the cleaner).  Every other thing that is done in the hall is done by volunteers, and […]

There have been a few comments recently about the amount of ’stuff’ accumulating throughout the village hall.   There are lots of good reasons for this, which I itemise here:
Firstly, this is only a week after the annual Charity  Auction held by the Allendale Lions, and after these affairs, which usually raise some £3000 to be […]

Welcome to the emerging new kitchen here at Allendale Village Hall!  We are grateful to Awards for All, the National Lottery grants agency, for their grant of £9440, and to Christina John of Fawside who persevered with efforts to bring this grant in,  which has enabled us to re-embark on the process of creating a […]

For years and years now, people coming to events at Allendale Village Hall have wanted a place to hang their coats.
It wasn’t always so, and indeed, the history of the hall can actually be traced by considering all of the numerous coat hook sites within the premises:  (i) in what is now the cleaners’ cupboard […]