Our facilities

We currently have multiple vacant weekday daytime slots available for local businesses and community groups.  The Hall has chairs for 70, 10 large tables and 10 card tables.  There is a car park, excellent kitchen and toilet facilities, storage, disabled access and a premises licence.  We are available 365/6 days a year 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 status this year.   

Location
 

The Hall is situated in West Street, Sompting, on the north side a few yards west of Sompting Recreation Ground and almost opposite Loose Lane, which runs south alongside the west side of the Ground.  Despite our peaceful location in the village, there is easy road access to Worthing only 3 miles away.  An adjustable-scale map and satellite view, with the Hall in the centre, can be accessed here. 

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.  Occasional hirers pay £12.50 per hour.  Lower rates apply to regular users; please contact the Hall Manager for details.

Terms and bookings - occasional users

Please click here to download a booking form with our full terms for occasional users; after checking availability with the Hall Manager and arranging your booking by phone or Email, please return the form - see Contact page - with two cheques payable to Sompting Village Hall, one for your deposit and one for the hire fee.  Provisional, telephone or Email bookings will be regarded as firm when a completed booking form and the appropriate deposit and hire charge payment have been received.  No acknowledgement will be made unless specifically requested, SAE required please.  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.

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 2 below).

2.      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 without notice to cover work or expenses necessitated by damage, complaints from our neighbours or failure to leave the premises in a clean and tidy state. 

Terms - regular users

Regular user status, and with it our lowest hire rates, are conditional on a user group signing and observing a formal hiring agreement and providing a representative; s/he acts as the group’s liaison with the Hall Manager and is responsible for the group’s proper usage of the Hall and compliance with hire terms.  Non-business representatives may also become trustees (see About page) and attend Committee of Management meetings. 

The hiring agreement covers security, cleanliness, tidiness, noise, safety, equipment, damage, insurance, deposits, termination and similar matters.  Full details and a specimen document are available from the Hall Manager.

Enquiry/booking 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.

Testimonials

Here are testimonials from some of our users:

"Many thanks for the hire of such a lovely well-maintained venue."

Kind regards.  N"

"Many thanks for accommodating us at such short notice.  …having used the facilities before I knew how good they were.”  (FH)

“We had a wonderful family get-together in the Village Hall this afternoon, following my grandson’s christening.  I trust I have left the Hall in the same immaculate condition as I found it.

Many thanks

BD”

“I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your assistance since we have started using the hall.  It is a great venue for our smaller practices and the facilities are excellent, and obviously well cared for.  You have been very accommodating and have allowed bookings, sometimes at what I appreciate is very short notice, for which I am grateful. 

Regards

AW”

Our regular users

We currently have 12 regular user groups – click on the web links below for details:

Weekly programme

Our normal weekly timetable is given below.  The Hall is particularly available for bookings during weekdays and on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.  Please enquire even if the session you need is shown as booked or part-booked, as not every group uses its slot or a full session every week. 

N.B. 

1.  Hire on Saturday and Sunday evenings, except early evening in continuation of an afternoon booking, 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. 

User group notices

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

29.1/2038: Next CoM meeting/AGM Reminder of these meetings, Sat 18 Feb at the Hall from 1230 (Secretary)