Fulking Village Hall and chapel have been at the heart of our community for one hundred years.
The Church now wish to sell both buildings, and our community has a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise the necessary funds to purchase them, so they can be safeguarded for the future.
Fulking Village Hall CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) needs to now urgently raise £85,000 to cover the purchase price of £75,000 (below market value) and the associated fees.
Donate
We urgently need donations to help reach our £85,000 target.
If you would like to donate you can do that in three ways.
Importantly as the CIO has charitable status (1198993) all donations can quality for gift aid if you are a UK taxpayer, which increases the value of your donation by 25%.
- For convenience you can donate by clicking on the JustGiving icon below. You will also be given the option to gift aid after you have entered payment details. Just Giving will take 5% of the gift aid collected but we will receive 100% of the initial donation made here.
- For large gift aided donations we would encourage you to donate by BACS, for maximum impact, using the account details below. Furthermore we have pledged to offer a refund of any donations made this way (gift aided or not) in the event that the purchase of the hall should fall through.
- We can also accept cheques. See below for where to send.
To gift aid donations by BACS and cheques please fill in our on line form found here. Alternatively, please email fulkingvillagehall@gmail.com to request a pdf form you can print off.
JustGiving
Click the JustGiving icon below to use JustGiving to donate.
BACS
Our details are:
PAYEE: Fulking Village Hall CIO
SORT CODE: 08 92 99
ACCOUNT: 67391765
REFERENCE: Please enter your name
Cheque
Please make your donation cheque out to ‘Fulking Village Hall CIO’ and deliver it to:
The Treasurer,
FVH CIO,
Woodlands,
The Street,
Fulking, BN5 9LT.
Our Business Plan and Vision
The CIO is committed to delivering an incredibly exciting new vision for the Hall and Chapel, shaped by recent consultation.
Villagers were united in wanting a sympathetic restoration and modernisation that will breathe new life into the Village Hall so that it is an attractive, more accessible and welcoming space that reduces its environmental footprint and provides a range of social and cultural activities that enrich the lives of our community. In parallel, villagers wanted to see better use of the former chapel, and our plans are to transform this into a buzzing arts café, that will provide a valuable independent income stream to help us to become financially sustainable and that will be a place for local people to come together, and a welcome stop for visitors to the South Downs.
This vision is set out in a comprehensive Business Plan, which provides the business strategy and key goals to get from where we are now to where we want to be in the future. The CIO’s Business Plan can be downloaded here
If you like to discuss the Business Plan, please contact Peter Boarder at fulkingvillagehall@gmail.com with your contact details and one of our trustees would be very happy to talk to you.