Seend
Wiltshire
Wiltshire
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The
Community Centre ready for the Seend Summer Ball |
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waiting for a presentation |
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in private party mode. |
The main hall of Seend Community Centre has been completely refurbished over the past few years, with a fully-equipped kitchen, new chairs and tables, sound system, versatile lighting, ceiling mounted projector and 10ft screen. The hall also boasts a stage with dressing rooms and has an area of lawn to the rear with views over the Wiltshire countryside.
The hall is the venue for many community activities, such as an annual beer festival (www.seendbeerfestival.co.uk), village pantomime, annual flower show on fete day, a lunch club, a wine and food fair, quiz evenings and village breakfasts on summer Saturdays. The hall is also used by Melksham and Devizes Skittles Leagues, a short mat bowls club, keep fit and zumba classes, an indoor archery club and art classes. It hosts a wide variety of social and cultural events - concerts, plays, dances, exhibitions etc.
The Centre also has two smaller rooms, one upstairs and one downstairs, which are used for an acoustic music club (www.seendacoustic.org), small parties, meetings, WEA evening classes etc. These rooms are also available for private hire.
The whole of the Community
Centre, apart from the upstairs meeting room, is accessible to wheelchair users
and there is a disabled toilet.
The
Community Centre Kitchen in use |
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The
annual
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Seend Community Centre started out as Seend Social Club, largely funded and built by the villagers themselves in the 1970s and extended in the early 80s. Prior to that, an old army hut had served as Seend Working Men’s Club on the same site. In 2005 the Social Club was amalgamated with the Seend Trust and reborn as Seend Community Centre, with charitable status.
The lounge bar area serves
as Seend Club – a membership organisation. Membership costs £8 per
annum (or £5 for 14- to 17-year-olds and over-60s).
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The Club bar is open to members every evening from 7.30pm. As well as a fully-stocked and very reasonably-priced bar, the Club boasts a dartboard, snooker table, a big screen TV for use on occasional sporting events and an attractive patio area. Club members also have access to a book-and-games-swap and are entitled to free film shows in the main hall approximately once a month and occasional social events in the lounge bar for members only.
Seend Community Centre’s quarterly newsletter, ‘Happenings!’, is delivered with the village magazine, ‘Spotlight’, both of which can be viewed via links on the Seend website, www.seend.org.uk