A Holme Valley village has transformed a historic building into a community centre … and people can have a first look inside this weekend.
Downstairs rooms and other facilities at Holme Village Community Centre are now complete so an open day will be held at the club this weekend on both Saturday and Sunday (September 28) from 10am until 4pm with the centre officially opened at 3pm on Saturday.
The upstairs will be renovated as the second phase of the renovation and will provide an entertainment space.
The centre’s chair of trustees, Viv Howard (seen on the right with fellow trustee Shirley Amesbury in a photo taken by Sandie Nicholson), said: “People will also be able to view the upstairs area which I’m sure will impress them with its potential for village and school events.”
The centre began as the former Holme Village Liberal Club which originally opened in May 1885. In July 1930 the club ceased its association with the Liberal Party and changed its name to the Holme Village Institute with its main aim to “promote the social enjoyment of its members” but stopped staging social functions in the 1980s.
In 2017 Holme Village Residents Association identified the need for a local community hub to host many of village fundraising events to maintain the village and help with improvements along with staging other events such as health and wellbeing sessions.
The association created a charitable trust called The Holme Village Community Centre and once ownership of the Institute was transferred to the trust the hard work began to turn it into the village’s hub with the first phase unveiled this weekend.
For more about the club and the village go to Holme village – In the Peak District National Park
Written by ANDY HIRST who runs his own Yorkshire freelance journalism agency AH! PR (https://ah-pr.com/) specialising in press releases, blogging, website content, copywriting and ghost writing autobiographies.
