It could be your lucky day!There will be Bingo! in the Tunstead Village Hall, tonight; Thursday 21st June 2018.
Today (Thursday) at 7:30, the modular building will be resounding with the shouts of House! The fortnightly bingo session is held to raise funds for the Village Hall and Recreation Ground.
Do come along. It would be great to see you there. I have bought a Bingo Dabber, so I am well prepared.
A festival of all things deliciously doggy and exquisitely animally!
Including the annual dog show and new Kids & Mutts Races. Stalls from:
and a VERY special visit from the
There’ll be entertainment from Broadland Ukes, food, drinks and a bouncy castle too!!
There will be 17 fun classes for children and adults. You can enter your dog (and bitch) for as many classes for which they qualify. Entrance fee is £1 per animal per class. Rosettes will be given down to fifth place.
The grounds open at 11:00am. It is always popular so make sure you are there in good time. Whether you are showing your dog or watching as a member of the public I am sure you will be entertained.
Other stalls and entertainment are:
The show ground closes at 4:00pm.
Had a great New Year celebration? Don’t know what to do with the empties? Here is the solution.
The Horse and Groom kindly host a bottle bank on behalf of the village. The bottle bank is managed by the parish council. Profits from the sale of the recycled glass goes into the village funds. The bottle bank is there for everyone to use. The more glass that goes into it, the more the village benefits in cash!
There was a presentation at the last Tunstead Village Hall meeting. The presentation described the results of a feasibility study that was undertaken to determine the viability of purchasing a replacement modular building.
A lot of hard work has gone into raising funds for a new village hall. Several attempts to apply for a Lottery Grant have not come to fruition, so a new direction was sought, especially as the old modular building is fast becoming beyond economic repair. It was for that reason that the suggestion to replace it with a stock modular building was muted. The village has now raised £30,000. It was felt that the time had come to take a serious look at purchasing a replacement, so the feasibility study was commissioned.
The presentation started with a review of the needs of the village. It continued by discussing how the needs of the village can be resolved through use of an updated modular building. The presenter felt that our village could demonstrate “need” in a significant way; namely isolation. Tunstead and Sco Ruston do not have local access to services and facilities, and villagers have to travel to use those services. In a world where every ounce of emission, pollution, and energy is measured through a concern for the environment, having the ability to host some of those services and facilities within the village will give significant leverage on obtaining a grant to supplement the money the village has so far raised.
It was shown that £30,000 does go a long way towards purchasing a new building, but it 
does not cover a large number of other costs associated with the installation of such a building. The presentation continued by looking at the ways in which the significant short-fall could be raised; through grants. It was shown that grants can come from a number of sources; not just the Lottery, using the Norfolk County Council Community Fund Service. Using this service it would be possible to identify grant suppliers and apply for a number of smaller grants to fulfil specific areas of need; both financial and social.
The next step is to create a project plan for the replacement modular building, and publish it; seeking responses and commitment to the plan.
Here are the highlight slides used in the presentation. Hilights of feasibility study
If you have any constructive thoughts on this subject please use the comments section at the bottom of the page or contact the Village Hall Committee.
