Hirers may not be aware that the Community Centre, Playground, Car park and other facilities are owned by the Monk Fryston and Hillam Community Association which is a registered charity.

The Community Association was established by residents in 1968 to raise the funds to provide the facilities and continues to be funded, managed, operated and developed by volunteers.

We would like to thank you for choosing to hire the Centre as your fees contribute towards its running costs and upkeep. We would request that you take care of the Centre whilst using it and leave it clean and tidy in readiness for the next user. If you do break or damage something please let us know so we don’t let another hirer down.

We recently extended the Centre so that two hirers can use it simultaneously, so please don’t be alarmed if someone else is using the Meeting Room if you are using the Main Hall or vice versa. Similarly, please only use the areas of the Community Centre you have booked because someone else may have reserved it, and it’s only fair to everyone that you use what you pay for.

We are always interested in receiving feedback about the Community Centre’s facilities so please don’t hesitate to let us have your views.

If you feel you would like to help the Community Association in its continual quest to improve the facilities for the Village residents and visitors please get in touch. It can be fun raising money with other likeminded people.

Please note – as the Community Centre is a voluntary managed community facility and does not have a caretaker and the Community Association reply upon all users to play their part in ensuring it is left in a condition they would want to find it. We hope everyone would treat it as their own home. If for some reason the Centre is not as clean as you would have hoped when you arrive please inform us so we can investigate the matter with the previous user. However, we would also point out that ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ and would ask you as a member of our Community to leave the centre in the manner you would have hoped to find it.

Thank you.