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Article: Future looking brighter for village hall.
- Article from:
- Daventry Express/Daventry Review (Daventry, England)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2008
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DOZENS of concerned villagers turned out to a meeting on Monday last week to stop their village hall closing.
A total of 37 people went to a special meeting in Newnham Village Hall to discuss the future of the building's management committee.
In recent years the committee for the hall has dwindled in size and the number of officers taking on key roles like chairman and treasurer has also fallen.
Janet Ashwell is the chairman and secretary, but the workload means she is having to stand down at the end of July.
If a replacement is not found the committee would cease to function leaving no-one to run the village hall charity and the ...