An important announcement about the hall: The New Umborne Hall will be opening on: Saturday 16th October 2010 Complimentary cream teas will be served from 4.00 to 6.00pm The hall will be officially opened at 4.30pm The Opening Night Celebration will be from 6.00pm to whenever! There will be a barrel of beer, wine and […]
Category: Village Hall
The centre of the community is our much loved village hall.
Latest Hall News (Sept.1st)
Hall news update from Rob: Since the last report on Aug 16th, two things have outwardly changed the appearance of the new hall & its surroundings ; firstly the grass seed sown on the banks of the stream & the bank around the car park have germinated with the rain, to colour up these areas […]
New hall news (August 16th)
The latest Hall news update from Rob: Last Saturday (August 7th) saw the third annual Cider Festival held at the Gerrard Arms in Colyton. Several members of the Umborne Valley manned the door & enjoyed an afternoon of competition as 29 different ciders were judged to produce a trophy winner, the judge was noted […]
Umborne Trustees meeting minutes 16th June 2010
MINUTES OF THE UMBORNE INSTITUTE TRUST Meeting at new Umborne Community Hall! Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, at 8pm Attended by Rob Summers (chairman), Paul Galloway, Kimmo Evans (minutes), Liz Gosling, Eleanor Wood, Ted Townsend, Neville Cheeseman, Peter Rugg, Apologies: Paul Forster, Sue Gush, Janet Coman Minutes of the meeting on 19 […]
Umborne Hall 1948
The following article was taken from the: Pulman’s Weekly News: Tuesday January 13th 1948. “Umbourne Has a Hall”. Women’s Institute Enterprise. Opening ceremony by Lady Carew Pole. Saturday was a great day for the Umbourne Women’s Institute, for it marked the opening by Lady Carew Pole of their new hall, erected on land belonging to […]
12th Night at the Old Hall
The 12th Night Supper in January is a “bring and share” evening where we all bring either a savoury or sweet dish to share with everyone else. Don’t forget, it is finger food only – saves on the washing up! Fun and games for the whole family including Tony’s famous raffle and the quiz of the […]
Old photos of the hall
It would be very interesting to create an album of old photos of the hall, both inside and outside. This photograph belonged to the late Joan Dommett. Can anyone name any person on the photo? Can it be dated? If you have any old photos, please let us have them. They can be scanned, put […]
Theme Nights at the Hall
Over the last 13 years or so, we have held a “theme night” once or twice a year. Themes have ranged from nights related to different countries to a variety of other themes: Tramps Night (1999) Soup and Cider Night(25th November 2000) TV Dinners (17th March 2001) Heroes (24th November 2001) Tramps Night again (29th March […]
New Hall News
Painting of the windows ( 3 coats of Sadolin) is now well under way and the plaster board is up inside, ready for the plasterers to come in and finish off. Then the electrics can be installed. Rob is so committed to painting windows that he spent his 51st birthday with paint brush in hand. […]
Hall Bookings
Hire the Hall! – In the old hall, it was an experience you never forgot! The new hall, hopefully opening in September, will be a wonderful experience with its superb new facilities. You can hire the whole Hall including tables, chairs, crockery etc., or just hire the car park if that meets your needs. We […]
