Wanborough Village Hall (Surrey) Management Committee Chair’s Report August 2022 to  September 2023 

The past 13 months have seen further improvements to the hall and its facilities and a plan for a major kitchen refurbishment. 

The Heritage Café during Heritage Days in September 2022 generated a surplus of £875.05. This was split three ways between the village hall, the Great Barn and the Friends of Wanborough Church providing £292.00 to each. This was significantly below the £502.00 paid out to the three beneficiaries in 2021. 

Our regular hirers continued to support the hall alongside one-off bookings for children’s parties and family gatherings. In October, a new Yoga class for men—Broga —took a weekly, Thursday slot. 

We continued to find opportunities to support our local community. We hosted a free defibrillator training session conducted by the Surrey Ambulance Service, and voted to meet a request from the Great Barn Committee, donating £200.00 towards their schools educational project. 

Our ageing oven broke down just before Christmas. We were able to purchase a new, up-to-date model costing £260.00 in time for Christmas party bookings. We also installed an additional PIR-activated light to improve visibility on the ramp at a cost of £234.00. 

In January, the hall’s wooden floor was sanded, polished and sealed at a cost of £4,032.00 to complete our planned refurbishment, begun in spring 2021 when the hall was redecorated and new toilets with facilities for disabled persons and nappy changing were constructed. 

During the past 12 months, we planned our next refurbishment, a major upgrade to the kitchen involving a new floor, improved lighting, redecoration and regrouting, plus a new fridge to replace an aged fridge-freezer with a broken bottle rack. Work will take place this autumn thanks to our Surrey County Councillor, Matt Furniss, who supported our request for a Your Fund Surrey grant of £3,467.00 from his own Small Community Projects Fund. 

A spring clean in February 2003 was well supported by village volunteers, who cleaned pelmets and cupboard tops in the hall and kitchen, removed hard-to-reach cobwebs, cleared the gutters, cut back branches on the flat roof, swept the side alley and replanted the flower baskets. 

Sadly, a Quiz and Supper Night fundraiser, planned for April, was cancelled owing to insufficient numbers. The committee hopes to try again in November when past Quiz and Supper Nights have proved successful. 

At time of writing, the village has again turned out in numbers on 9[th] and 10[th] September for Heritage Days when visitors to our historic Great Barn and St Bartholomew’s Church were refreshed in the village hall’s Heritage Café. The committee formed separate teams to take on aspects of the admin and effort needed 



to make the annual pop-up café a success. As always, Wanborough folk responded by baking cakes and giving their time to work in the café. 



WANBOROUGH VILLAGE HALL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE PERIOD 1 Nov 2021 to 31 October 2022 

INCOME Lettings Heritage Weekend Interest on Bank Account Donations (Access for All) Jubilee Lunch Donations (Other) Covid Closure Grant 

Total 

EXPENDITURE Electricity Gas Water Insurance Cleaning Fire Extinguishers Heater Maintenance Electrical Work Maintenance Work Miscellaneous Disabled Access Hire Refunds Heritage Weekend Contribution to Jubilee Lunch Transfers to Access for All 

Total 

EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE 

Balance b/f Balance c/f 

BALANCE SHEET 

Lloyds TSB Current A/C (00154702) Lloyds TSB Deposit A/C (06378890) Lloyds TSB Current A/C (72923668) 

Balance carried forward 

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|2021/22|2020/21|
|---|---|
|4545.7|1818.1|
|809.01|602|
|0.83|0.46|
|59.55|13125.27|
|220.24||
|100|1100|
|2667|18793|
|8402.33|35438.83|
|633.57|602.41|
|343.32|211.93|
|76.44|47.03|
|481.74|454.43|
|1432|898|
|33.09|30.74|
|433.2|393.72|
|460.4|751|
|941||
|2730.07|275.46|
|1026.81|40423.92|
|405.5||
|517.01||
|1125||
||2163.49|
|10639.15|46252.13|
|-2236.82|-10813.5|
|20849.05|31662.35|
|18612.23|20849.05|
|As at 31.10.2022|As at 31.10.2021|
|14641.36|11546.86|
|4262.87|4262.04|
||5040.15|
|18612.23|20849.05|



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