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Have you ever wanted to hold a meeting in the Bishop Sutton & Stowey village hall but needed to be able to display a Power Point Presentation or show a video at a wedding of the bride and groom in their early years, etc.? Well now you have a great venue in the village hall that will seat over 100 people to watch the video show! The laser projector is bright enough to view during the day too (best to shut the blinds though - even with the lights on if necessary - but a reduce

A big thank you to the dozen stalwarts of Sutton Theatre Company and especially Steve Kingston who gave up some of their Sunday afternoon to help erect the huge 4 meter wide by 3 meter deep electronic screen above the stage! Details will be available soon for organisations to make use of the screen (and projector). Ideal for wedding videos and formal meetings with power point, etc. This linked to the public address system will give a great sound to anything presented. We h

We are preparing for our 30th anniversary celebration on 26th September marking exactly 30 years since the inaugural social event was held in our community hall. As part of this work, we have today taken down the village tapestry that the village Women's Institute created depicting all aspects of village life in 2000 to mark the occasion of the new millennium. It is a wonderful work or art with incredible precise detail; if you look closley you can even see the gravestones i

Due to the extreme heat, it has been suggested we open the village hall in Bishop Sutton Village where we have air-conditioning in the upstairs Taylor Room. You need to be aware, you need to climb some stairs to this room as the stair lift is not available. Before confirming this will go ahead, we need to know if this will be worthwhile and people wish to avail themselves of this facility. We have a volunteer who is willing to be there to assist (there will be no charge for t

Carrying on the theme of the Malted Duck Bar, we are blessed to have Penny Cornell take on the responsibility of freshly painting and adding new equipment to the village hall kitchen to give it a cleaner, crisper feel and with all mod cons for large or small functions! We have a new commercial fridge for use for large events as well as the small one for everyday use. We have two warming cupboards to keep plates and food hot and a small freezer for ice lollies! Penny has added

Now that we have invested in comfy padded banquet chairs for the village hall, we have 100 of our 137 green plastic stacking chairs for sale. £2 each or £1.50 for the complete 100! We also have 8x green fabric padded comfy stacking chairs - £2.50 each. Please let us know if you are interested!

Over the years, people have said that the exsting plastic chairs in the hall are not very comfortable sitting for long periods! This was always in the back of our mind and luckily, our attentive secretary Rachael spotted some second hand banquet/wedding chairs for sale on Facebook! On Saturday, some members of the committee, shifted 249 chairs in order to find 150 good ones which we then brought to the hall, cleaned and put in the store room! The next time you enjoy a show

Those of you who went to see the hilarious Dadda Dia staged by our own Sutton Theatre Company this weekend will know of the tremendous transformation of the bar, now named the 'Malted Duck'. This work was carried out by two amazing volunteers all the modifications in their own time. We are indebted to Penny and Justin for this tremendous work and those on the committee of STC who funded much of it! Not to be outdone, our own volunteer Shep, has painted the main hall walls i

A reminder this meeting is taking place next week; it would be good to see lots of the community there suporting it!

How many of you using the village hall have ever looked closely at the beautiful embroidery above the rear doors, depicting life in the village many years ago? You can see the cricket pitch, The Butchers Arms, The Forge Garage, the Yellow Submarine, Wattsey's caar workshop, the new village hall, the primary school, the church, the post office, Stuckey's Stores, the Methodist Church, Pick Your Own fruit farm, The Red Lion, Wookey's,the fish and chip van, the caravan park, Chew

You can now view the demolition of the old village hall and the contruction of the new one in our 'about' page. We have also added videos of the last bash with the band Country Pie in May 1995 and with them playing again for the first event of the new village hall in September 1996.

The village hall was built nearly 30 years ago with the determination and fundraising by a number of committed villagers. One of those...