Village Halls
Introduction
Managing a village hall or community centre demands a wide range of skills and information to meet the ever-changing requirements set by local authority and national legislation.
Buckinghamshire Community Action can provide village hall and community centre management teams throughout Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes with advice and guidance on all aspects of management, maintenance and usage.
Buckinghamshire Community Action has a Village Halls Adviser who can support and guide hall management teams through complex issues such as refurbishment projects, trustees responsibilities, charity registration or funding applications. Our Village Halls Adviser also provides general up-to-date information through newsletters, information booklets and local meetings, keeping management committees in touch with the very latest developments in hall management.
Whether you are seeking to raise money for an extension, require a new constitution or need to clarify recent legislation affecting halls, the Village Halls Adviser at Buckinghamshire Community Action can help you.
Please contact Sarah via email at Sarah@bucks-comm-action.org.uk
What's New?
National Community Buildings Survey Findings Launched!
ATTENTION VILLAGE
HALL/COMMUNITY BUILDING MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES
PPL &
Phonographic
Performance Limited (PPL)
and Performing Rights Society (PRS) for
Music have announced that they
intend to develop a pilot joint licensing scheme, in response to the
Government’s announcement of changes to the legislation for music licensing.
The two music licensing bodies will develop a scheme working with charity
and community groups, including community buildings and village halls.
A NEW SIMPLIFIED, JOINT PPL AND PRS LICENSING SYSTEM
At present most organisations which are required to have both a PPL and a PRS licence have to negotiate with both organisations separately. They have to complete two lots of forms, possibly based on very different information and to pay two separate fees. As a result of the Government’s consultation PPL and PRS have agreed to operate a simplified, joint licensing system with one contact.
The joint fee is
proposed as a flat rate of £81 per annum. For
halls paying a PRS tariff of the minimum of £40 this is a 100% increase.
For some halls paying a significant amount to PRS, £81 for 2 licences will be a
bargain. We need hall committee’s
views and suggestions, i.e. is the proposed fee acceptable or should we be
pressing for a sliding scale based on income. Bear in mind that the latter
system would require an annual return of income.
We would like your
views urgently by 11th January 2010!
Please send your comments via email or post to Sarah Allwood, at sarah@bucks-comm-action.org.uk or BCA, Unit B The Firs, Bierton, Aylesbury, Bucks. HP22 5DX
This very tight deadline has been imposed on us because we need to feed the comments back to ACRE before they meet with the authorities in February.
Many thanks for your
time and we wish you a very happy Christmas!
Sarah Allwood and Laurie Johnson
Community Projects Officer and Funding Advice Officer
Buckinghamshire Community Action
We'd like to draw your attention to a petition for a dedicated community building fund that has been set up by our sister company in Sussex:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/VillageHeart/#detail
Sites of related interest:
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ACRE Action with Communities in Rural England |
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Community Matters UK |
