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This guide provides an overview for community groups that wish to incorporate sustainibility practice within their plans for new or rennovated community buildings.
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A list of the useful village hall information sheets and publications from ACRE. Please note that some of the information refers to English legislation and will not be revelant for Scotland.
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This handbook has drawn on the wealth of knowledge and experience of people who help run Village and Community Halls in Angus.
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The Big Lottery Fund’s Big Thinking consultation provides an opportunity for rural communities to have their say on the Investing in Communities funding, which SCVO believes has failed to provide adequate support for village halls and other rural community facilities. This detailed briefing sets out issues and the evidence behind SCVO's response.
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The Big Lottery Fund’s Big Thinking consultation provides an opportunity for rural communities to have their say on the Investing in Communities funding, which SCVO believes has failed to provide adequate support for village halls and other rural community facilities. This short briefing sets out the arguments for change.
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This handbook has been prepared by staff from The Bridge, the Council for Voluntary Service which provides support to village and community halls throughout the Scottish Borders except in Berwickshire.
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This book aims to provide basic health and safety advice and information to charity and voluntary organisations. Many organisations, particularly smaller ones, do not have access to professional health and safety advice and do not know how to work safely. This books aims to help them to find out and gives practical suggestions on how to work safely. It should also be of use to health and safety practitioners working in this specialised sector. The book covers the main aspects of health and safety that most charity and voluntary organisations will need to be aware of in order to meet their legal duties.
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A report on the research carried out by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations into the provision and usage of community buildings in Scotland.
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The findings and analysis from primary research in 2008 to investigate the provision, condition, management, funding and use of rural community facilities, such as village halls, in Scotland. The report also has information on the implications for their future use.
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Rural community facilities (RCFs) are an important part of the social fabric of rural Scotland. This primary research gathered extensive survey data about the location, condition and use of these community hubs that will support informed debate about their possible futures.
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A really useful document that sets out what is a trust and the key points to consider in relation to the various kinds. Vey useful information for halls where the property is held in a trust.
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A comprehensive guide providing information and confidence for those promoting arts events.
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This report has been produced by sportscotland to evaluate the benefits of installing energy-saving and access systems to a community sports facility at Guildtown Community Hall, Perthshire.
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A step-by-step guide to help event managers throughout Scotland has been published by EventScotland. It offers user friendly advice on the planning process, together with sample checklists and adaptable templates
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This document contains the supporting evidence for the petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for more support for village halls and community buildings.
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This enormously helpful handbook has been written to help manage and develop church buildings and halls. However, most of the information is just as useful to those managing community and village halls. By following its advice, you should be able to look after your buildings and grounds better, manage their use and set cost-effective charging.
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An action-research study into the sustainability of community buildings. This study develops and applies a methodology for identifying the action
needed to realise the full potential of local authority owned community
buildings in helping to promote social inclusion, modernise public services and
improve quality of life in deprived neighbourhoods.
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For many years Community Matters has produced a publication entitled “Managing Your Community Building” – A practical handbook for people running buildings in local communities. This publication is now out of print. However they still get requests for the book, so they have made a PDF version available. The book is a very useful guide to running a community building but some of the legal information is out of date and some is only relevant to England. You can join Community Matters (www.communitymatters.org.uk) to download information sheets for up to date information on individual topics.
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Information and guidance for Orkney hall committees.
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These are the notes from the CADISPA Trust clustering event held at Boat of Garten in March 2009.
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The report on the first ever Village Halls Summit, which took place in Aviemore on 22nd February. The report includes a transcript of the Cabinet Secretary Richard Lochhead's keynote speech, presentations and outputs from the round table discussions.
(PDF 2.89 MB)
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This report provides early key findings from ACRE’s third comprehensive survey of the state of rural community buildings, updating data from surveys in 1988 and 1998.
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This is the first in a series of briefings from the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations about the new Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP). The SRDP is funding of £1.6 billion worth of measures to benefit rural communities over the next six years.
For community groups there are two main opportunities: Rural Priorities and LEADER. This briefing paper is about Rural Priorities and is aimed at community groups and voluntary organisations who are not carrying out land management activities. This briefing helps you take the first step, which is to apply for a Business Reference Number.
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This publication is a good guide to designing a multi use hall that combines sport and other community uses.
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This publication focuses on the local and independent cinema sectors and includes multi-use venues such as arts centres and community businesses. Certain sections may also be of interest to film societies, mobile cinema operators, and film festivals. The aim of this publication is to provide a general overview of the issues involved in developing and running a modern cinema.
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Community Matters and ACRE have produced a new joint publication on greening your community building. Your Community Building Counts covers example and case studies of what village halls, urban community centres and other buildings can do to reduce their carbon footprint, shop ethically, create less pollution and of course save the groups money over time. Funders such as Big Lottery Fund are placing increasing emphasis on the environmental sustainability of community buildings when making grants so this could be an invaluable guide to anyone developing their building.
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This manual produced by Marr Community Planning Group is a guide to the implications of the Public Entertainment Licence in Aberdeenshire plus information on how to run a hall effectively. It allows halls to create a customised users manual.
Note this manual has been developed for Aberdeenshire halls so some references will be to local contacts and issues.
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