Woodley Village Hall is located in School Road, Woodley (on the Woodley triangle, about one hundred metres from the Hunters Inn public house, situated on the corner of School Road and the main Winchester Road).

It currently offers three function rooms: the main hall (Woodley Room), a spacious hall and raised stage suitable for larger functions, theatricals, meetings, dance etc; the Crampmoor Room, a mid-sized room suitable for smaller functions and events.

A third smaller room, the Ganger Room is also available for committee meetings and similar functions, and as an additional room if required for use in conjunction with the main hall.

There is a fitted kitchen, with serving hatch to the Crampmoor Room and the smaller Ganger Room also has its own recently installed kitchenette unit. Crockery etc is available for hire.

Rooms are available for hire for community events, private functions and parties, and appropriate commercial hire. This website is currently being developed to show photographs, hire details etc.

More details can currently be obtained from the bookings secretary Mrs Florence Garland, who can be contacted by email at wvha_1@hotmail.co.uk

The Hall is a registered charity and is owned by trustees and administered by a management committee on behalf of local residents. The committee meets monthly, usually on the third Wednesday of the month at 8.00pm at the Hall. Members of the public are very welcome to attend and contribute, and anyone interested in donating a little time, perhaps as a future committee member, or even just occasionally able to take part on a volunteer work party doing some painting, gutter clearing etc would be warmly welcomed.

History

The following brief history of the building of the new Woodley Village Hall was compiled by the then Chairman of the WVHA, the late Mrs Wendy Bryant.

In 1975 the old Church of England primary school in School Road, Woodley was bought by the Romsey Extra Parish Council from the Church Commissioners in order that Romsey Extra might have a village hall. For some time the school itself had to be the Village Hall -- and very uncomfortable it was -- as it had been designed with infants and juniors in mind.

It was obvious that a purpose built hall was needed; and with a target of Ł100,000 a Woodley Village Hall Appeal was set up under Mrs. Doris Bunting's chairmanship, with the help of the Parish Clerk, and the support of the Parish Council. Generous grants from the County, the Borough Council and the Parish Council left the appeal to raise Ł12,500, still a formidable sum for a small community to raise, but it was finally achieved by the efforts of many volunteers, collecting money, holding jumble sales, theatrical evenings and many other local events.

So many helped in so many ways that it seems ungrateful to name only a few, but Alan Fox, Richard Lewis, Mike Lambert and Mike Wells stand out in memory, not only as fund raisers, but also for their work in planning and overseeing the construction of the new Hall.

The result you can see. The old school was demolished in April and the new Hall completed in October 1986.