
Keelby Village Hall
Please support us throughout 2025, our forty-third year of service to the community!
£1,066.00 of £1,300.00 target
41 tickets of 50 ticket goal
About our cause
Keelby Village Hall is a large, well-used, Grade II listed historic building that is genuinely at the heart of our community. Our Historic England Listing Number is 1063368 and our address is Village Hall, King Street, Keelby, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. DN41 8EE.
The diverse and eclectic range of activities, events and functions available means there is something for everyone to participate in and enjoy. For example, the Hall is home to Keelby Luncheon Club (inaugurated in 1992) the much longer established Keelby Senior Citizens' Christmas Party and the perennially popular Keelby Pantomime.
Please support us throughout this, our forty-third year. The property (including the Rifle Range) was purchased by the community, for the community and the Village Hall Committee created to maintain, manage and run it in 1982; a transaction made possible through community fundraising, with the balance of the cost being met by generous grant awards. We are a Registered Charity with the Charity Commission Registration Number 512808. Our lottery provides us with an important source of additional, regular and reliable unrestricted income that is also environmentally friendly because it is delivered entirely digitally!
We were absolutely delighted when one of our supporters matched all six numbers and won the jackpot in the draw on Saturday, 23rd March last year! The Committee, who work really hard to promote the lottery, warmly congratulate the lucky winner and also sincerely thank each and every one of our ticket holders for their ongoing and greatly valued support for the Hall and the wider Keelby community.
The Hall was proud to host the Keelby Pantomime 2025 ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Tottenham Tart Tosser' written by Rob and Linda Gargett, an absolutely superb production in every respect! Huge thanks go to each and every member of the stellar cast, to those supporting them behind the scenes and especially, to Mrs Hudson in the form of Steve Skipworth, the highly accomplished and illustrious Director. Heartfelt thanks go too to all audience members for your engagement, generosity and support for this flagship annual event in our community calendar. Could this ever be surpassed? Please join us again next year and judge for yourself!
We were pleased to participate in Village Halls Week 2025 (organised by ACRE) that ran from Monday, 17th to Sunday, 23rd March. The aim of the week was 'to celebrate, encourage and support the efforts of the volunteers who keep these important rural community buildings open'. Keelby Village Hall is genuinely at the heart of our community and your Committee is, in turn, most appreciative of the amazing, ongoing, support of residents. Thank you so much!
The Hall was honoured to host the latest Charity Prize Bingo Night in support of The Health Tree Foundation (Grimsby's Hospital Charity and a cause close to all our hearts) on Saturday, 22nd March. It proved to be another truly exceptional evening enjoyed by many!
On Thursday, 1st May, the Hall will serve as the Polling Station for electors in Keelby for both the inaugural Mayoral election for the Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority (GLCCA) and the Lincolnshire County Council elections. Polling hours will, as usual, be from 7.00 am to 10.00 pm.
The Committee is planning a very special event in the Hall on Saturday, 10th May in celebration of the 80th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day. Doors will open at 7.00 and the evening will include comedy sketches, music and dancing from the 1940's, a NAAFI supper at 8.15 and a grand prize raffle. The bar will, of course, be open and period dress is welcomed! Finalised information will be included in our April newsletter and published on the parish notice boards in addition to our own. Tickets, priced at £15.00 each, are available now; please contact Mrs Jane Mitchell as soon as possible to secure yours and to avoid any risk of disappointment!
Looking further ahead, we are pleased to advise that our Annual General Meeting will be held in the Hall on Tuesday, 13th May commencing at 7.00 p.m. (with all most welcome to attend) and that we will be taking part in this year's Keelby Gala, on the Village Green, on Saturday, 12th July, commencing at midday.
We need your help so we can continue to improve our award-winning Hall and all it has to offer both now and for the future. Our ground floor offers full accessibility to guests with disabilities and features state of the art toilets that also include baby changing provision. The Dance Room and Snooker Room on the first floor are reached by a stairway. The Hall is also proud to host one of Keelby's two community defibrillators (AEDs). It is in the yellow cabinet to the left of the front door as you approach the building. (The other is at the Sports Pavilion alongside Stallingborough Road). Keelby Village Hall is a Wi-Fi hotspot and indeed, in 2009, had the distinction of being the first community building in West Lindsey to be enabled as such by the District Council! NB. Our snooker table was professionally rebaized and had new cushions fitted in November 2019, while the completely new (and extended) ground floor toilet facilities were installed during the coronavirus closure period in the summer of 2021. The latter project was made possible by a generous award of funding from the FCC Communities Foundation enabled by a 'match funding' contribution from West Lindsey District Council. Among the other amenties available are a fully equipped modern kitchen, a piano, a stage with up to date lighting and sound systems and an immaculately maintained garden. Keelby Village Hall is the pre-eminent community facility in our area and a venue of choice for all manner of activities, events and functions.
Construction commenced 128 years ago in 1897 as the Church Mission and the foundation stone laid by the Right Honourable Victoria, Countess of Yarborough (the dowager Countess) in November of that year can still be seen. A subsequent substantial bequest in the Estate of Miss Elizabeth Dawson enabled the extension of the building in 1910 when it became the Church Institute and took the form we now know as Keelby Village Hall.
The Committee is delighted to announce the completion, over last summer, of a substantial programme of works to the building. An area of failed flat roof was replaced with the latest, fully insulated, technologically advanced materials and the consumer unit replaced with a fully up to date fire-proof model that also provides more electrical circuits to enable the enhancement and expansion of the facilities offered within the building. We are most grateful to West Lindsey District Council, who substantially funded the roof work through the Community Facilities Fund and ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England) who generously awarded funding from the Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Small Grant Fund to assist us with the cost of both projects. The work was very ably carried out by specialist local contractors, with the balance of the expenditure being met through the Hall’s own fundraising. Bryan Nelson, a leading Committee member, said ‘We are constantly seeking ways to further improve Keelby’s award-winning Village Hall and all it has to offer not only for now, but also for the future. The completion of these projects means we can provide an even better experience for our many existing users and attract even more people to take advantage of this remarkable venue’.
We are presently fundraising to enable the sustainable refurbishment and reinstallation of the Hall's iconic clock as an appropriate and befitting way to mark the remarkable 70 year reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II. The clock, which is contemporaneous with the building, has not been operational for some years now. Please support us in delivering this important project on behalf of the Keelby community.
Our current competitive, modest, charge rates are (per hour): Dance Room...£10.00, Main Hall...£15.00, Meeting Room...£10.00 and Snooker Room...£10.00. Quotations for Christenings, Parties, Weddings and all other events will be provided upon request. For bookings (or enquiries) please speak with Mr Fred White, our Booking Secretary and Keyholder, on 01469 560492 or 07305 184389 (preferred). Please see our newsletters, notice boards, or this page for further details of forthcoming events.
Thank you for your valued support and good luck!
Yours sincerely,
Keelby Village Hall Committee
Next draw prizes
£25,000 jackpot
Next draw
Sat 5 April 2025
Draw results
£25,000 Jackpot
- Winner! Mr W (Grimsby) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms B (GAINSBOROUGH) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mx O (London) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mrs C (Gainsborough) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mx S (LINCOLN) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mrs O (Market Rasen) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mr M (GAINSBOROUGH) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mx C (MARKET RASEN) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms W (MARKET RASEN) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mrs E (GAINSBOROUGH) Won 3 extra tickets!
Mx C was selected at random and won a Home Robot Bundle
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