During March 2010 confirmation was received that the Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) would fund 50% of the £149,000 hall refurbishment cost. That meant that matched funding was available from Viridor Landfill Credits (£30,000), Scottish Borders Landfill Trust (£13,000), the Roberston Trust (£10,000), Awards for All (£10,000),the Gannochy Tust (£5000), Hugh Fraser Foundation (£7,000), Scottish Borders Council Community Grants Scheme (£5,000), the Bernard Sunley Charitable Trust (£2,000), the Erskine, Cunningham Hill Trust (£1,000).

Work on the hall began in July and the first booking in the refurbished hall was on 8th February 2011.

Cinema Equipment

Earlier in the year £4,000 was secured from Regional Screen Scotland to fund setting up cinema equipment in the hall. It had been hoped that this might be in place before the refurbishment, but with the short time scale it was decided to wait until after. Film are now shown on a regular basis. Click here to see what's coming up.

Refurbishment News

Here are photos taken on 5th December 2010 as work progressed..

The main hall

The new kitchen

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