Community Centres & Club News

There are two community centres in Dunholme, the Village Hall and the Dunholme Old School Community Center

There are a number of clubs for children and adults in the surrounding area. As Dunholme is so closely connected to Welton then some clubs serve both communities. Other villages in the area such as Hackthorne, Scothern, Scampton and Nettleham also have numerous clubs and club activities.

DUNHOLME VILLAGE HALL

DUNHOLME VILLAGE HALL COMMITTEE

Chairman ---- Pete Forman
Enquiries and Bookings
Graham Rawson 01673 862552

Dunholme's village hall is situated on Honeyholes Lane. It has a large room capable of holding 200 people and a smaller room, the Jubilee room, that holds aproximately 50 people. The hall has it's own liceced bar and a fully equiped kitchen. There is disabled toilet facilities as well as separate toilet in the Jubilee room.

The village hall is within a sports complex with an indoor bowls hall with five lanes attached and a bowling green, football pitch and tenis courts within the grounds.

The village hall committee has charitable status using the hall for social, recreational, educational and other philanthropic events for the benifit of the local community

Scouts bag pack

  I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of Welton Scouts, to thank everyone who donated money towards the Scouts bag pack at Welton Co-operative Store during the week before Christmas. Over the course of four days your generosity enabled us to raise a staggering total of £927.41, which, of course surpassed our widest dreams.

The money raised will be used to help provide a camp/s and other activities such as climbing, archery and canoeing later this year. Our ethos at Welton Scouts is to put the OUT back into ScOUTing and this money will help us to do this.

  Over the past year the Scouts have been busy completing a number of badges including the Chef badge, Photography, Cycling, Forestry, Naturalist as well as participating in other activities. Last year we held two camps including a successful survival camp where the Scouts had to build bivvies, light and cook on open fires. The Scouts learned to use flat stones to ‘fry’ eggs on, cooked potatoes in the embers of the fire and sausages and bread on sticks. The success of the camp could be measured by the fact that no one died of food poisoning, lost any limbs and came away smiling and smelling of wood smoke.

  Last October half the troop completed a 25 miles bike ride from Fledborough, which is on the other side of the Trent to Southrey near Bardney. We had expected the journey to take over 6 hours, but as always the Scouts raised themselves to the challenge and did it in just over 4 hours.

  Over the past year or so the Scouts have been encouraged to work in their Patrols to create a bonding with each other and work as a team. The evidence of success of this scheme is now becoming fast apparent and we hope to encourage individual patrol planning for camps. I will let you know how everything works out.

Once again, thank you for your generosity and support for the Scouts.
  Martin Keen
Scout Leader 01673 866178

Royal British Legion - Welton and District Branch

Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal

Thanks to everyone who gave so generously to this worthy cause. A special thank you to the collectors who gave their time so willingly and the business premises who allowed boxes to be left there.

The sum of £1436.53 was raised around the village.

R Dimbleby.

IMPISH QUILTERS

Impish Quilters are a friendly and enthusiastic group of Quilters and crafters that meet every second Thursday in the Dunholme Village Hall at 7.30pm.

On Thursday 9th February 2012, we will be holding a sit- and- sew evening for all our members, hopefully making a mouse pin cushion. For further information on which meetings are open to visitors and to be informed of membership places or to be put onto the waiting list, please contact Moiya Wesley on 01522 680816

Welton Gardening Club

Following on from last month which I hope inspired you to grow and enjoy your own fruit, this time vegetables come under the spotlight.

Leslie Burton from Goltho Gardens Nursery near Wragby will guide us through 'A Year in the Vegetable Garden' I hope to see you all there at 7.30pm on Monday 27th February at Welton Village Hall. New members and visitors are always very welcome.
Jenny Murfin 01673 861308

THE DUNHOLME OLD SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTRE

DUNHOLME OLD SCHOOL:
The Old School Centre is available not only during the day but also during the evenings and weekends and is still only £7 per hour to hire which includes the use of two rooms and the kitchen. Ideal for small parties or meetings.
Please ring Janice on 01673 861172

For More details on the DOSC

THE DOSC was the village junior school up till 1984 when it was considered too small for the needs of the village.

The Old School was built in 1864 after the land was donated by a Mr William Tougne of Branston under the Schools Sites Act of 1861. A trust was set up and the trustees were the Bishop of Lincoln, the Achdeakon of Stow and the Vicar of Dunholme. The school continued to be run by the church untill 1948 when the responsibility was transfered to the Lincolnshire County Council.

After the school was vacated a group of villagers aquired the use of the property from the trustees to be used as a community centre.

Today, After a national Lottery Grant the management committee has purchased the school from the trustees on behalf of the village. Although the village has an excellant village hall there is no duplication of activities. The DOSC has a main hall that can seat up to 100 and a small committee room that holds about 20. It has disabled toilet facilities and a fully equiped commercial standard kitchen. The property also has an annes where community eduvation in computer skills, leisure learning and theatrical activities take place.

DUNHOLME OLD SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Chairman - Mr John Ritchie 01673 861172

Booking Secretary - Mrs Janice Ritchie

01673 861172

THE DUNHOLME OLD SCHOOL

Above: Front of the Old School building
Below: Rear view showing the wooden annex to the left housing the Area Community Education & Training unit

DUNHOLME OLD SCHOOL
The Management of the Dunholme Old School is applying for a Lottery Grant from the Big Lottery Fund under the Community Buildings Programme for the Dunholme Old School.

This will be the forth time that they have submitted such an application and, although two failed the third one to actually purchase the Old School was successful. The idea would be to turn the old school into a community arts and learning centre.

The proposal to the lottery fund will be to build at the rear of the main building a theatre of about 150 seats that will be tiered but able to be folded back against the back wall to give greater floor space. This extension will also have additional rooms for lectures, meetings or storage. Incorporated in the plan will be a lounge cum cafeteria with a larger kitchen and additional toilets.

This will certainly involve all the dramatic, music, dancing and photographic groups that could call this place their ‘home’ whereby costumes and scenery could be stored as well as a base for teaching and performing.

This is just the first stage; if successful we just go to the next stage of selection. There can be up to four stages each requiring more details and justification by us on why we need it. After this will come the really had work of putting it all together. I am already contacting architects to get advice on the feasibility of building what we require in the space available.
John Ritchie