News

** Do you help run a village or community hall? ** This is IMPORTANT if you do! ACRE is responsible for writing everyday hiring agreements, licensing, working with MPs and more. Our 2009 survey helped secure £3m in funding for Village Halls and we know you need more. If you have some spare time this weekend, please take some time to complete our National Village and Community Halls Survey. You've only got until the 31st March and every answer will help us make sure hall trustees get the best advice and service we can give as well as the power to drive positive change. https://acre.org.uk/our-work/national-village-and-community-hall-survey

Following on from a highly successful Village Halls’ Week that involved over 700 village halls, actively engaged 18 MPs and attracted coverage from Countryfile, national Newspapers and resulted in #villagehallsweek trending on Twitter ACRE will launch a national survey. ACRE has carried out this comprehensive Survey every 10 years and in 2020 is pleased to be working with Power to Change and Sheffield Hallam University. The Survey will be distributed to 10,000 village halls across England by the ACRE Network members and is a crucial piece of work. ACRE will use the data to help secure funding for halls, to ensure that advice and information adapts to the challenges facing volunteer hall committees and that the ACRE Network can continue to provide the very best support. ACRE wants to encourage all kinds of community buildings that provide facilities for their communities to take part. Not just traditional village halls but community centres, sports pavilions, church halls, churches providing community use, community centres, Miners Welfare Institutes, WI halls and community pubs providing meeting rooms ACRE’s Deborah Clarke commented ”Whilst it’s essential for us to have the hard data as evidence to support our work the information collected will paint a picture of the social and economic impact on communities of having a hall in their community and it provides a detailed look at social change over time. We are extremely grateful to all the hall committees that give their time to manage village halls and will take the time to complete this survey”

Late Night mental Health Support

This Charter has been developed collaboratively between the voluntary and community sector and the members of the place partnership. It is intended to be as inclusive as possible and will be kept under constant monitoring and review to measure outcomes, impact and reflect the developing relationship across the sectors.

Smile Foundation has brought good intentions to life over the last nine years, all thanks to our corporate supporters. We are extremely proud and excited to be building on this success by working in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Hull & East Yorkshire Mind.

A new hub to help communities develop affordable homes across North Yorkshire and East Riding has been launched today (March 5).

Proposed changes to operator licensing will have a major impact on Beverley Community Lift and community transport generally.

Scunthorpe Hospital Engagement and Listening Event - Your Views Matter to Us.

In the Sancton, Newbald, Market Weighton and Goodmanham area

North Yorkshire Partnership Secures £7.4m of funding for the Community and Voluntary Sector over Three Years

A number of innovative health projects in the East Riding won three awards for NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) at the recent Health Expo Awards 2016.