The hall will reopen temporarily from Monday February 9th, pending new arrangements being made for safe removal of the current roof and construction of its replacement.

Facilities
Some items such as chairs and tables will be available for use, as will the kitchen and toilets at the front of the building.  Curtains have been removed, however, as have noticeboards in the main hall.

Bookings
Bookings can be made in the usual way, by contacting Shirley Cherry, our Bookings Officer.

The hall trustees thank all users of the hall for your patience and understanding.

Contractors

Unfortunately, the contractors who we had intended would do the work have recently informed us that they had taken on a large-scale contract and would not be available, after all, to undertake the project.  The hall is therefore reopening temporarily from February 9th 2026, until an itemised job description can be professionally composed.  The job will then be advertised, inviting tenders from suitably qualified companies.   It will then be necessary to close the hall again for the work to be done, but the date is not yet known.

Recent closure of the hall
Replacement of the hall’s roof is a complicated project, with the necessary involvement of a number of parties in practical ways (construction, electrical work) and in ensuring that the work done will be safely, and that it meets legal standards (architect, structural engineer, building control, principal designer).   

The hall trustees have aimed to enable the work itself, and the planning and preparation to be done in full compliance with building and safety regulations, but also as prudently as possible, and have been supported in this effort by the professionals we have engaged.  It has not always been possible to be sure of dates on which we could move from stage to stage in preparing for the work to be done.  When it became clear to us that work could not begin, as hoped, before December, we made arrangements to make good use of the time during which the hall was closed.

Soft furnishings and other items were removed from the hall, to protect them from dust. Some were stored in the dressing room area behind the stage, while others are kindly being stored by members of the community.  

This then made it possible for the area beneath the stage to be cleared of a large quantity of wood, other long-unused items and the dust and cobwebs of 50 years.  This was necessary, not only to reduce fire risks, but also because woodworm had been detected in the stage floor and supporting structure, which, along with the structure beneath the dressing room area behind the stage, has now been professionally treated.  

Asbestos, fire and electrical safety inspections, and some electrical maintenance have also been carried out. 

Thanks to a grant of £15,000 from Kent County Council, the trustees of Reculver and Beltinge Memorial Hall are now very close to achieving the target of £65000 to replace the roof! 

If you would like to contribute directly to our "Raising the Roof” appeal, you can do this via our GoFundMe link:  https://gofund.me/a23f11cd

Your support will help us in our aim both to renew a much-loved building that has long been at the heart of the local community, and to ensure that its facilities remain useful to current and future clients.

This hall is used by about fifteen different organisations

resulting in about one thousand five hundred visitors every month!

Photos, hall details and hire rates can be

found by clicking on the tabs to the left

To get in touch with any of the individual groups

please click on the "Organisations" tab above 

and a list will appear.  Details of how to make 

contact can be found within each listing.

If you would like to make a general enquiry or perhaps you would like to

consider hiring the hall for a specific event, please click on "Contact Us"

There has been a hall on this site since the 1920’s.  The original hall was known as “Reculver and Beltinge Parish Hall” and was a 1st World War ex-army hut purchased for £200 and made of weatherboard with a corrugated roof.

A committee of gentlemen ran the hall and anyone wanting to hire it had to apply to the commitee.

During the Second World War, the committee kindly gave furniture including settees to the Officer’s mess in Gainsborough Drive and to the soldiers club at Reculver Lodge and the Beltinge Auxiliary Fire Service.

In 1946 it was decided to re-name the hall “Reculver & Beltinge Memorial Hall” in honour of those that fought in the two world wars.

Meanwhile the hall was beginning to show the passing of time and with rats under the kitchen floor it was decided it was time to have a new hall.

Residents of the village went around collecting money from the local inhabitants and that’s how the money was raised for today’s hall.  The freehold of the present site was purchased in 1954 and in April 1959 the foundation stone for today’s hall was laid.

The hall has nothing to do with the local council.  It is governed by the Charities Commission on behalf of the villagers and is run by a voluntary committee of trustees duly elected each year from people who live in the parish of Reculver and by representative committee members from the groups that hire the hall on a regular basis.

Over the years these committees of volunteers have raised money and applied for grants to improve the hall and to keep up to date with all the rules and regulations needed to allow events to take place and to provide facilities for the disabled.