Umberleigh Village Hall

NEWS: Umberleigh Park and Play

Umberleigh community are creating a park and play area at the front of the school and have applied for a grant from the Calor Rural Community Fund.

This is a public voting funding project and we would appreciate as many people as possible going online to vote for our project.

Please register to vote at: https://www.calor.co.uk/shop/communityfund/account/login login and click on the ‘Vote’ button on the Umberleigh project.

You’ll have 10 votes to use which can all be placed against the Umberleigh project. Voting will open on 2^nd May and close on the 17^th June 2019.

Please support our project, which is being spearheaded by the school and the village hall committee, for this exciting development.

Umberleigh Village Hall is conveniently located for Barnstaple, Exeter, South Molton and Torrington. The hall is located on the A377 Barnstaple to Exeter road near the crossing of the B3227 South Molton to Torrington road and adjacent to Umberleigh Railway Station.

The Hall has ample parking, plus a large lawned area.

The Hall has recently been extended and re-furbished, providing a large bar and lounge area, a well equipped kitchen, dance hall, stage with changing areas, and new toilet facilities. Partition doors are installed to create a smaller meeting area if required.

Please contact a member of the Committee if you would like to visit the Hall.

The Hall can accommodate a maximum 200 persons and has table seating for 120 persons

Accommodates up to 200 people, or table seating for 120
Ideal venue for Weddings or Private parties/functions
Extensive parking on site
Great location next to Umberleigh Station, and the A377
Large kitchen, separate bar, and flexible layout

Forthcoming Events

A summer concert - 'King Arthur'

A summer concert performance of the semi-opera ‘King Arthur’, set to music by Henry Purcell, will be held in Umberleigh Village Hall on Monday 24th June at 8 pm. This is a fun-filled, lighthearted performance of entertaining tales of battles, love, good and evil spirits, drunken haymakers and with some of the finest songs and music of English Baroque! This will be a perfect setting for a summer’s evening.

Tickets at £8 for adults and £2 for accompanying under 16s are available through choir members, via the website www.winkleighsingers.org.uk or at the door. There is an interval and the bar will be selling drinks which can be enjoyed on the lawn outside.

ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES FAIRS

Continuing the success of last years Antiques and Collectibles fairs, two further fairs have been scheduled for 2019 on Sunday 30th June and Sunday 22nd September 2019.

10 am – 4 pm Tea, coffees, soup, sandwiches, homemade cakes as well as the many varied and interesting stalls.

For further information please contact Steve Cooper on 07765 263844 or stevecooper92@hotmail.com

The Umberleigh Garden show.

The 2019 Umberleigh Garden show will be held on Saturday 3rd August 2019 – starting at 2.30 pm.

ANNUAL EVENTS

Two items feature annually in the Umberleigh Village Hall calendar:

The Umberleigh Panto – an event which has been running for 30 years and is presented by the Really Useless Theatre Company on the last weekend in February and the first weekend in March each year.

The Umberleigh Village Garden show – featuring 100s of entries in an extensive range of categories. The 2018 Garden Show took place on Saturday 4th August.