Our facilities

The Hall is suitable for up to 70. It has chairs for 70, 10 large tables and 6 card tables. There is a car park, excellent kitchen and toilet facilities, storage, disabled access and a premises licence. We are available 365 days a year (2008: 366! – the Hall was in use Christmas Day for the second year running) to all bona fide users regardless of politics or religion, and have no such affiliations or representation.

In addition to the use of our Hall facilities at low cost, regular users benefit from publicity opportunities via a free web page facility on this site and our marketing initiatives.

The charity is Level 1 accredited under the Hallmark quality standard scheme for village halls, and we expect to attain levels 2 and 3 status over the next two years.

Click here for pictures of our facilities and some of their users.

Charges

We are able to offer our facilities at exceptionally low charges due to the management of the Hall and charity being carried out by unpaid volunteers.

Charges are per session as specified below. If the time spans two sessions, the full price of both will be charged.

Session Hours Fee Notes

Morning (Club) 9am- 1pm £10.70 £2.70 per hour

Morning (Business)* 9am -1pm £13.90 £3.50 per hour

Morning (Occasional) 9am- 1pm £58.85 £14.70 per hour

Afternoon (Club) 1pm-6pm £10.70 £2.70 per hour

Afternoon (Business)* 1pm - 6pm £13.90 £3.50 per hour

Afternoon (Occasional) 1pm - 6pm £58.85 £14.70 per hour

Evening (Club) 6pm-11pm £18.20 £4.55 per hour

Evening (Business)* 6pm-11pm £20.50 £5.10 per hour

Evening (Occasional) 6pm-11pm £58.85 £14.70 per hour

* Please note that above Business Rates only apply to Regular Users; others pay £11.80 per hour.

Occasional Hirers pay £11.80 per hour.

Terms

Please click here to download our conditions and charges. N.B:

1. Hirers are expected to have regard at all times for the Hall’s neighbours. Our terms include provisions regarding noise levels and measures to preserve the peaceful character of Sompting but with reasonable latitude for bona fide entertainment. Hirers who flout our terms and annoy our neighbours will not be permitted to use the Hall again and risk losing their deposit (see 3 below).

2. Regular user status and hire rates are conditional on a group signing and observing a formal hiring agreement and providing a representative; s/he is required to act as the group’s liaison with the Hall Manager, take responsibility for the group’s proper usage of the Hall and attend Committee of Management meetings. The representative may also become a trustee (see About page).

3. Non-regular users will be asked for a deposit, returnable when the trustees have inspected for damage and cleanliness and satisfied themselves that no complaints have been made by the Hall’s neighbours. The deposit may be higher for some bookings, at the Hall Manager’s discretion. A charge may be deducted or deposit forfeited to cover work or expenses necessitated by damage, complaints from our neighbours or failure to leave the premises in a clean state.

Bookings

Please click here to download a booking form. Provisional or Email bookings will be regarded as firm when a completed booking form and the appropriate deposit have been received. No acknowledgement will be made unless specifically requested. Once a booking has become firm, no refund of the hire charge will be made in the event of cancellation by the hirer unless we successfully re-hire the Hall to another user.

Enquiry message

To Email bookings or other enquiries about the Hall please Email admin@somptingvillagehall.org. For other enquiries or contact methods, please see our Contacts page.

Our regular users

We currently have 14 regular user groups – click on the web links below for details:

•	Andrew Thrower (Iaido – The Way of the Sword)
•	Big Ted’s Nursery
•	Independent Order of Foresters (local branch of social group)
•	Lancing & Sompting Winemakers
•	Rainbow’s End Line Dance Club
•	Slimming World
•	Sompting & District Model Railway Club
•	Sompting Community Church
•	Sompting Village Morris
•	Sompting Village Women’s Institute
•	South Shore Group (model railway club)
•	Weight Watchers
•	West Sussex N Gauge Society (model railway club)
•	Worthing & District Edwardian Club (charity concert troupe)

Weekly programme

Our normal weekly timetable is given below. Please see the notes underneath. The Hall is often available for bookings on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and during weekdays over the school holidays.

	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Sunday	Rainbow’s End Line Dance Club
Monday	Big Ted’s Nursery	Big Ted’s Nursery	Slimming World
Tuesday	Big Ted’s Nursery	Big Ted’s Nursery	Lancing & Sompting Winemakers
Wednesday	Big Ted’s Nursery	Big Ted’s Nursery / Sompting WI	Worthing Edwardians / South Shore Group
Thursday	Big Ted’s Nursery	Big Ted’s Nursery	Weight Watchers
Friday	Big Ted’s Nursery	Big Ted’s Nursery	Sompting & District Model Railway Club / West Sussex N Gauge Model Railway Society
Saturday	Andrew Thrower		Not normally available for hire to the public. See note 3

N.B.

1. Big Ted’s Nursery bookings refer to WSCC school term times only.

2. Please enquire even if the session you need is shown as booked, as not every group uses its slot every week.

3. Hire on Saturday evenings* is available only to regular users or via a member of the Hall’s Committee of Management known to the hirer. A list of CoM members is on the About page. (* except early evening in continuation of an afternoon booking)

User group notices

The following notices affecting user groups have been issued. Please refer to the message quoted for full details, or contact the originator (shown in brackets) if not received.

26.7 / 0813: Next Committee of Management meeting Sun 14 November at the Hall, 1400 sharp (Secretary)

27.3 / 0947: Closure of Hall for repairs Mon 9 to Fri 13 August inclusive (Hall Manager)