The present (2nd August, 1986) Trustees are:

Mr. J. Arbuthnot (Vice-Chairman)

Mrs. C. Reekie (Secretary)

Mr. J, Backhouse

Mr. D. Sinclair

Mrs. J. Blyth (Treasurer)

Mr. J. Smith

Mrs. A. Coutts

Mr. M. Taylor

Ms. R. Garton

Mrs. BA. Verner

Mr. W. Graham (Hon. President)

Mr. S. Younger (Chairman)

Mrs. J. King

Mrs. C. Younger

Mr. I. Law

The Church Hall

The following account is written from information supplied by Mrs. Jessie

Singleton:

With so many activities going on in the village one haIl is not sufficient

to fulfil all its needs. The possibility of another hall in addition to the Village

Hall was first discussed in 1955 when the Kirk Session considered a hut for

congregational purposes, but at that time nothing was decided.

In 1962 ‘the Trustees [of the church] were to be petitioned to ask for

permission to apply money from the sale of Mansedale [the former Free and

United Free Church manse] towards the building of the Church Hall’, and it

was not long before the hall was built in the grounds of the church.

The Baird Trust (a Church of Scotland Trust) ‘asked for a letter of

acknowledgement for a grant of £300 towards the Church Hall to be engrossed

in the minutes’.

The letting of the hall is done in an informal way by Mrs. Jessie Singleton.

There is no set letting fee, but a contribution towards the upkeep of the hall

is expected from those using it.

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