CARNLEA ORANGE HALL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE – REPORT BY CHAIRMAN HENDERSON BALLENTINE AND TRUSTEES .
The principal user is still the Toll Bar Dancers sequence dancing group and the hall is still being used by the local Orange Lodge as well as for County Orange and the occasional Orange District meeting.
Petticrew Memorial Accordion use the hall for practice.
An Irish Dancing group have been added to the list of hall users on a Thursday evening. They cater mainly for children of school age.
The venue remains popular with the local community and there have been birthday parties, socials and fund raising by other groups.
We have not sought or received any funding during this accounting year. When originally formed we were glad to receive funding to update facilities and make improvements to reduce running costs etc. Our aim was always to make the hall self-sustaining with contributions from users to cover the running costs. That has been the case for this reporting year and will continue to be our aim. There are at present no plans to access further funding.
We still continue to promote the hall among the local community (and further afield) for private functions like birthday parties, charity fund raising events, concerts, socials, gospel meetings and concerts and sports like badminton.