Management Committee

Managing Hunmanby Community Centre

1. Members of the Management Committee of the Community Centre are all Trustees of the registered charity known as Hunmanby Community Centre. The Community Centre building is owned by Hunmanby Parish Council and leased to the trustees. The Parish Council has responsibility for maintaining the fabric of the building and for the maintenance of utilities. The Trustees look after everything else and pay for water, sewerage, gas, electricity, refuse collection, decoration, insurance and our caretaker’s salary. As at June 2025 there are 12 Trustees. This is the largest number we’ve had for many years. Sadly only two groups that use the Centre are represented. All trustees are volunteers. None are paid.

2. The Trust Deed of 1984 is our legal document and informs how the charity must be managed. We have a 28 year Lease from the Parish Council, which was renewed in 2012. We have a named parish councillor who comes to our committee meetings and with whom we liaise on matters that affect both the council and us.

3. The committee meets once a month, where all aspects of managing the building are discussed, including finance, bookings, maintenance, Live Events planning, improvements and the all important business of keeping the Centre viable. There is a critical fine line between keeping room rents high enough to balance the books, while making sure groups can afford them.

4. We employ a Caretaker/Bookings Co-ordinator (Jamie) who works Monday to Friday, 28 hours a week flexi-time. He also looks after the garden. He is our only employee. He takes bookings, keeps the diary/calendar up to date, sets rooms up, cleans the building, sources cleaning materials, does minor repairs and decorates as required. He co-ordinates with our secretary and with our treasurer. Our treasurer manages payroll as well as all our financial affairs, again as a volunteer.

5. In order to cover weekend opening, members of the committee open and close the Centre. Jamie’s employment does not cover weekends. He sets up the weekend rooms on a Friday, but the rooms need to be free to allow him to do so. If they’re not free and a room has to be set up on a weekend day, groups are expected do this themselves. However, Jamie will do a weekend set up, if he is available, but we ask that the group pays him directly (currently £25). Committee members are not expected to set rooms up.

6. We don’t specifically fund raise. Since its inception in 1984, the Centre has been expected to be kept viable from Room Rents only. Our Annual Christmas Evening is an exception and is a fund raiser, usually raising between £400 and £500 and used to purchase equipment. We also have to apply for grant funding from time to time for big purchases.

7. Our Live Arts Events, which we’ve been running since 2011, have been highly successful. We now have between four and five a year, mostly music events, but we’ve also had poetry and drama. Most of them make a profit, which is ring fenced in an Arts Budget and used for new arts equipment or to subsidise expensive artists. We love being able to bring singer/songwriters and great bands to Hunmanby. Some are local and some from miles away including from outside the UK.

All the work involved with putting on the Arts Events, is done by members of the committee voluntarily. We don’t employ any agencies. We are our own promoters.

8. In addition, we now show National Theatre Live screenings throughout the year. These are West End productions which have been filmed live. We have a contract with NT Live, but we don’t pay for this. Instead, NT Live takes 53% of our ticket income. We charge just £10 for tickets. This is an amazing way to see exceptional productions locally and we are very proud of being able to host these screenings.

Sue Leyland  18.06.2025

01723 480485 or 07749 067505 sue.leyland@btinternet.com

Some committee members represent village organisations (in brackets below) while other members are on the committee simply as residents of Hunmanby. The committee meets once a month at the Centre.

Chair: John Gorton                   

Secretary: Sue Leyland

Treasurer: Gillian Alders (Yorkshire Countrywomen's                  Association)

MEMBERS

Belinda Barclay

Louise Coupar

Carol Firth (Over 60s Club)

Bob Hartwell

Stephen Jackson

Val Monaghan

Sue Riding

Ian Stuart

COMMITTEE POSTS

Maintenance:  Steve Jackson

Funding/Grants:   Sue Leyland

Bookings/Income Supervisor:  Gillian Alders

Live Events: Val Monaghan

Live Events Publicity: Sue Leyland