Hall Progress Update

24 July 10

Things are progressing fast with the Village Hall work and we are now
starting on the landscaping. The changes in levels around the site are
great and it would save us all a lot of money if we could create a
bund around the terracing area.

Has anyone got some subsoil they are keen to get rid off?

We are looking for as much as we can get! If we can get some from
within the village it would save greatly on haulage costs. The
contractors plan to proceed with this work in the next couple of
weeks, so Please contact either: -
Lucinda Hand – (01963 828930),
lucinda@shalford.com or
Sue Parroy – 01963 33331,
sue@parroy.co.uk

The construction of the new Charlton Musgrove Memorial Hall is well under way.

The new hall will open in November and is being built by local builder 
Reeves of spakford.

The new building will have a hall (of similar size of the old hall), a 
buisness meeting room, larger kitchen and proper cloakrooms.

The community has worked fantasticllay hard to raise £290,000 and has 
just £15,000 left to raise to pay for th building. Generous grants 
have been awarded by both somerset councils, viridor creidits, and the 
mackintosh foundation.

A memorial stone was recently incorporated into the fabric of the building. The Portland stone memorial, which was carved locally by Karl Friedrich of Bruton Stonemasons, was installed by the project builders, FJ Reeves & Sons Ltd of Sparkford, overseen by their Site Agent Simon Handley and closely watched by the village team who designed and raised funds for the memorial stone: Nick Amery, Chris Mieville and Stephen Nathan.

The Memorial Hall project has been fortunate to receive funding from Viridor Credits Environmental Company through the Landfill Communities Fund. Funding is available for community and environmental improvement projects within ten miles of an active Viridor Waste Management landfill site. Since 1996 Viridor Credits has allocated over £50m to over a thousand projects across the UK.

Funds for the new hall have also been gratefully received from Somerset County Council, South Somerset District Council, The Mackintosh Foundation, Charlton Musgrove Parish Council, Somerset Community Foundation and from many fund raising events organised and brilliantly supported by the small businesses and the residents of Charlton Musgrove.