# Hermitage Hall

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC044887
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** May 29, 2014
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC044887


## Contact

- **Address:** Hermitage Water, Hawick, Scottish Borders
- **Postcode:** TD9 0LX



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Hermitage Hall is the only hall within the Upper Liddesdale and Hermitage Community Council area. Since 1910 it has served a remote, rural community with no village. The Hall is governed by a volunteer management committee elected annually by/from residents of the community. The mission of the committee is to provide/maintain a facility with guiding principles of inclusion, wellbeing, creativity, learning and sustainability. The Hall organises/hosts a large number of activities/events, including coffee mornings, film nights, dances, speaker events, local history presentations and craft fairs. The Hall is hired for various other events (e.g., local charity fundraisers, cycling events support) and is used for community council meetings, corporate presentations, political surgeries and as a polling site. The average annual footfall is approximately 1,200. The Hall also provides an external publicly available defibrillator and is the resilience centre for the ULHCC area.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** &#x27;for the purposes of physical and mental training and recreation, and social, moral and intellectual development through the medium of reading and recreation rooms, library, lectures, classes, recreation or otherwise as may be found expedient of the inhabitants of the Distric of Hermitage in the County of Roxburgh and its immediate vicinity, without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Scottish Borders
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood






