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Rural Community Buildings come in all shapes, ages and sizes. They are essential for the vitality and vibrancy of community life. This usually means the village hall but could be a community owned shop, church hall, or similar. There is often no other meeting place in a rural community for local activities and service delivery.

The work to keep these buildings functioning and in a state of good repair falls to its management committee. These are local volunteers whose role is an increasingly complex one in the face of the growing legislative and regulatory framework for such facilities.

The Government has identified the importance of increasing the number of community assets as a central part of community cohesion. The main message has been about the transfer of buildings into community ownership. However in rural areas the majority of multi purpose community buildings are already owned and run locally. The dominant issue is finding the funds to improve and manage these facilities.

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• Anne Poppleton
• Mike Dixon
• John Richardson
• John S Freeman
• Alison Overfield
• Mike Gledhill
• Terry Downing
• Brian Luckham
• Alan Browning
• Rowan Brockhurst
• Helen Andrews
• Jackie Clark
• Derek MacGarvie
• Susan Crofts
• Bridget Grant
• Raymond Woodcock
• alexis miller
• Richard Pentelow
• Lloyd Hobbard-Mitchell
• Jean Ryan
• Eileen Oades
• JUDITH REYNOLDS
• ruth kirkup
• Philip Coleman
• Gillian Starr
• R.K.Roads
• Steven Poole
• Janet Wilde
• eddy hoad
• David Minttz
• Graham Humphries
• Liz Hall
• Krista Harris
• Jenny Brown
• Jane Bristow
• Pam Mackinnon
• Catherine Plewman
• Anthony Ryan
• Michael J. Weston
• Frances Brittain
• Barry.Smith
• Joan Mapperley
• Eileen Zoers
• Judith Clark
• Caroline Keely
• Sue Shoesmith
• Rosemary Neal
• Jane Carroll
• Gary Poundall
• Sue King
• Craig Morgan
• Wendy Hardy
• Rebecca Miles
• Peter Martin
• Mary Kennedy
• laura ward
• Helen Skuse
• Neil Thornton
• Councillor Karl Boggis
• Wendy Hart
• Ruth Realey
• Aaron Moss
• Peter Applegate
• Kenneth Frank Johnson
• Merlin Carr
• Jeanette Potter
• Yvonne Stephens
• Ian Morrison
• sandra jeffreys
• kate baugh
• Michael Dawe on behalf of Hacheston Parish Council
• Melanie Cutress
• Robin Gould
• Sarah Powell
• John Higinbotham
• John Rampling on behalf of Aylmerton Parish Council
• Alison Clish-Green
• Sarah Adlem
• Ron Crank
• Colin Coles
• Jacqueline Ireland
• Bry Mogridge
• Hazel Edridge
• Paul Cooper
• David Lewis
• Petra Pipkin
• Nicky BIshop
• Michael Paul Coney
• Wendy Barritt
• Lin Stening
• Nigel Roberts
• Iain Dalziel
• Julia Plinston
• Sue Berridge
• Mandy Sowerby
• Michael Milchard
• Mary Hurst
• Madeline Barden
• Geof Butterwick
• Alan Kenyon
• Nina Lightfoot
• Simon Thompson
• Suzanne Lindsey
• graham stewart
• Fiona Lippmann
• Michael Morris
• Sophie Thompson
• Wendy Austyn
• Frank Armstrong
• Deborah Sanders
• Sue Toft-Hunt
• vicky hope-walker
• Sheelagh Hoffman
• Eleisha C Newman
• Henry Wilson
• Cheryl Stamper
• Lesley Sunderland
• Harrie Cooke
• Sandra Birrell
• Ian Guy
• Katy Martin
• Malcolm Blanksby
• Arthur Evans
• June Gossling
• Llew Monger
• gordon wiseman
• John Ford
• David Jessop
• GEORGE C LANGLEY
• Trevor Cocks
• Susan Reeder
• Duncan Wigley
• john benton
• Patricia Scott
• Lynne Fugle (Mrs)
• John R Barker
• Terry Cavender
• Morag Collins
• rae sloan
• Mrs June Smith
• Marion Brown
• Mike Eyre
• Anthony Horry
• Elaine Staff
• Keith Kemp
• Sara Winteridge
• Christopher Barter
• Nicky Lovegrove
• Mike Hill
• Rev. Angela Singleton
• KAY REA
• Angela Galvin
• Stephen Clark
• Alan Holder
• A W Richardson
• Alan Griffiths
• Gary Thorne
• Rachael Lesley Webb
• bruce frost
• Karen Lindsay
• Karen Saunders
• David Michael Price
• Liz Garden
• Alison Cooper, Stewkley Parish Clerk
• Maura Fanshawe
• Howard Jones
• Heather Griffiths
• Wendy Earl
• Julian Owen
• Trevor Leggo
• V.B.Dudley
• Tony Bridger
• Valerie Holden
• Priscilla Phillips
• Chris Playford
• philip underhill
• MALCOLM REECE
• laurie eagling
• John Richard Carter
• Roderick Bluff
• Carroll Sullivan
• Anne Embury
• pat willmore
• Tim Hawkins
• Kate Gamm
• Jasmina Goodair
• Sue Vernon
• Paul Howard
• Phil Baldwin
• Richard Bartlett
• Jennifer Perrin
• Richard Woodcock
• Brenda Bailey
• David J. Allen
• Barry Meekings
• Barry Harvey
• Alan Griffiths
• Patricia Brocklebank
• Simon Young
• Lynne Harris
• Livia Morant
• Tracy Polkinghorne
• MARGARET PULLEN
• Jenny Coppen
• Simon Swale
• Diane Glover
• Geoff Hand
• Anthony Hutchings
• Leisa Wakeling
• Stephen Watts
• Gerry Stevenson
• Robert V L Ellis
• Christine Tyler
• DENISE LITTLECHILD
• S Littlechild
• Sid Geake
• ANDY PENNY
• cllr r coakley
• Dr RIchard Dean Jenkins
• Mike Todd
• Stephen Powne
• David Evans
• Dave Wellbelove
• Tony Gale
• Carolyn Carne
• Pauline Fedarb
• E Dunn
• P Brown
• Henry Burrell
• Marion Briggs
• Fiona Gilber
• Henry C Potter
• Leslie D Ribbens
• Robert Piper
• Martine McCaffrey
• Steve Plumb
• Paul Brookes
• W.D.Isaacs
• gaye braund
• Paul Hughes
• Jean Miller
• Mr C,N,B,Thomas
• Marjorie Vale
• Amy Rice
• Heidi Taylor
• peter burton
• Linda Petzing
• Alec Rice
• Julian Gaydon
• Nikki Mills
• Ean Lawrence
• Rob Pickering
• Caroline Astin
• Rhona Jane Vincent
• Graham Billing
• Eileen Sturt
• marita ward
• Lynda Harman
• Ally Green
• FRANK COX
• Julie Moss
• claire skett
• Kelly Carr
• Jenny Skett
• Valerie Gill
• Patricia Thorne
• Valerie Johnson
• Peter Richards
• Marion Richards
• Holly Richards
• David Lamond
• RGM TINNEY
• Sarah Howell
• Josyanne Thatcher
• Sharon Davey
• Mavis Edmonds
• Perran Tremewan
• Vernon Anderson
• Paul Coyne
• Anthony Woodliffe
• Andrew Burnett
• Elaine Angelis
• Julie Cole
• Rosemary Pickersgill
• Stephen Knowlden
• Caroline Pooley
• Robert Sydney Thewsey
• Alan Davies
• Richard Lawrence Stevenson
• Cathy Oates
• david whittall
• David Hamilton
• Janet Duchesne
• Alan Parry
• Sylvia Smith
• Peter Chisholm-Taylor
• Robert Ian HENRY
• Rosemary Gillett
• Susan Stevenson
• Linda Dexter
• Les Wicker
• Dr Paul Camic
• Ruth Pooley
• Walter Scarah
• Lally Henty
• Brian O'Connor
• Ian Wordsworth
• Alex Ollivier
• Tina Bilkey
• Chris Hassall
• Martin Reddin
• John Whear
• Mike & Wendy Redman
• Beryl A Gorse
• Patricia Begg
• Peter Horwood
• Dave Rothwell
• ROBERT FOSTER
• Steve Carreck
• Deb Spinks
• Alison O'Neil
• Jane Sharp
• Anna Read
• Philippa Arthan
• Nicki Sweeney
• Elizabeth Jefferies
• Christine Dixon
• Francis baring
• vanessa sturley
• Alison Higgs
• Miranda Higgs
• Jean Berris
• Dionne Jones
• Paul Tucker
• amy walker
• Susan Maughan
• Arthur Banister
• Tim Thomson
• Douglas John Smith
• John Carley
• Lindsay Southcombe
• Clare Langdon
• neil farrington
• Roger Lawrence
• Margaret Hampstead
• zoe richards
• Rebecca Fox
• Colin Lloyd
• Cara
• Sally Lewis
• Elizabeth Lincoln
• Sheila Pilling
• Mary Poulain
• Pauline Hinson
• Maria Macnair
• Noel Mitchell
• Marilyn Gibbins
• Anthony King
• June Maggs
• R Biddick, J Skinner, J Eustice, M Sherman, R Sandry, M Bennett
• Eric Giles
• Noreen Tungate
• Selwyn Nichols
• Valerie Allan
• Brian Edmond
• Niki Hunnisett
• Vicki Lawrence
• Fiona Jobling
• Antony Gordon
• Ingunn Ruffles
• Jo Willmoth
• christine kirk
• Hazel M Turner
• Michael Alexander
• Malindi Blight
• Suzanne Gear
• Peter Smith
• David Weston
• Robert Andrew Wilson
• Peter Hookins
• Jackie Carey
• Nigel Cutts
• Lakenheath Parish Council
• Christopher Elson
• Maureen Baldwin
• jim morris
• Nigel Tallick
• Clare Goddard
• NICOLA MASTERS
• Paul Rush
• Cameron MichaelBrown
• Ditz Brown
• Becci Jones
• Torquil deacon
• Jennifer Harper-Deacon
• Lian Grieves
• Zoey Hackney
• Gill Haig-Brown
• Malcolm Wilson
• Chris Mealing
• Philip David Paul
• hazel Roxby
• Brian Cohen
• Julie Pearn
• Clare Grimes
• CLIVE HALLT
• Veronica Stubbings
• Louise Corrigan
• Henry Wilkes
• Ray Lowe
• Stuart Campbell
• Joe O'Sullivan
• Mary Smith
• Viv Ottaway
• Kristian Berggreen
• Keith Francis
• Jane Wogan
• Alan Gomme
• Julie Smyth
• David G.Macmillan
• John Allen
• Stella Nicholls
• lynn garnham
• Donald Emerick
• Anthony McLauchlan
• Julie Tassell
• Kenneth Davies
• Joyce Quinton
• Shirley Viney
• Michael Elliott
• Gina Rebeiro
• F.Geoffrey Shutt
• barbara ann spencer
• Sabrina Sully
• John Lucas
• dean finch
• marilyn torode
• Ian Alexander
• Frank S Meaby
• Maggie Towner
• Jayne Lockey
• Serena Tierney
• Nick Lear
• natalie holt
• Ben Underwood
• Jan Cutting
• Andrew Stewart-Roberts
• Joan Dutton
• John Penfold
• Frank White
• Barry Bryant
• William King
• George Glennie
• Audrey Dent
• Emma Chambers
• Adam Jacobs
• Sue Westbrook
• Darren Morris
• JOHN SPENCE
• Mary O'Herlihy-Chew
• Terence Flanagan
• Brian Martin
• Sue Prince
• Rupert Ashby
• Mary Davenport
• Joan Francis
• Chris Shepherd
• Graham Stallard
• Robert Collins
• Stephen Minter
• Joan Stammers
• Anna Aiken
• John Walsh
• Diana Walsh
• Suzi Pollard
• Margot Jones
• kenneth thomas
• Will Sutton
• Richard Davies
• Philip Peacock
• Stephen Cowell
• Jacqueline Squires
• Gianfranca Holden
• Angela Wilbraham
• Jane Blunt
• Brenda Reay
• rod isted
• Delph Archer
• David Rodgers
• Graham Brian Fielder
• Russell Ridout
• Linda Sutton
• Patricia Mills
• Sue Mumford
• Stephen Tolhurst
• Stan Curtis
• Margaret Blount
• Tony Way
• Helen Andrews
• Charlotte Cox

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