Yobunny supporting the Burton Memorial Hall

Yobunny is supporting the Burton Memorial Hall as our charity of choice. The Memorial Hall, opened in 1956, provides a venue for over 50 user groups to meet and hold activities, creating a social, educational and cultural amenity for everyone in the village regardless of age.

If you value this resource please support Burton Memorial Hall, there is a lot of work to be done on the hall to help it serve the community for another 50+ years. You can support the Hall by attending a fund-raising event there, by holding your own event in aid of the Hall, or by using one of the new ways of helping raise funds.

JustTextGiving by Vodafone is an easy way to make a donation of up to £10 to the Hall. Every penny you give goes to the Hall and you can do it from your phone. How easy is that? Simply text the code BMHC12 followed by the amount you wish to donate (£1, £2, £3, £4, £5, or £10) to 70070 - it won't even cost you to send the text!

Earn money for the Hall by shopping or searching with EasyFundRaising.org. Every time you search you earn - 0.5p per search - it doesn't sound a lot but, if like us, you search many times for things each week it will soon add up!



You can also shop and earn funds for the Hall...click the blue box below to find out more.



Every penny the Hall needs for maintenance and repairs and upgrades has to be raised somehow, and it needs the support of everyone who uses it and of the wider community to ensure it's there for future generations to use too. Please help!

Burton Memorial Hall is a registered charity, no. 505018.

2012 - another year before us...

At the start of the year I like to assess where we are going, set out our aims for the coming year, and put in place the mechanisms to help us achieve them. Over the past couple of months we've been exploring how useful social media is to online businesses - both our own and our clients, to ensure we're making the best use of it to benefit us all.

As a part of this we've been attending something called Twunch on a monthly basis. A Twunch is a Twitter lunch, at least that's how it began, with a small group of us exploring our knowledge of Twitter and how we can best utilise it. From there Twunch has grown a little to encompass other aspects of social media, and will in time cover Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and any others we find.

Our initial group has been Twunch_SL (for South Lakeland) but we now feel it's time to spread our wings a little and see how much interest there might be in Twunch in the Burton & Holme areas. The idea is to meet for a 2 hour lunch one day per month, say 12 noon - 2pm, at a central location. This could be the memorial hall or the pub, etc. and the host provides soup, bread & cake, Twunch provides technical support, and everyone who goes along pays £5 to cover the costs of lunch etc. The group size needs to be no more than 10 people initially. If anyone's interested in getting involved, please contact Anne via Twitter on @AstarteWebDes or use one of the contacts here: http://www.yobunny.co.uk/astarte/

Thank you to all who voted for Kosy Komfy Kidz!

Thanks to all the fabulous support from all over the country, but especially locally, the Memorial Hall was successful in the vote and won £60,000 in the telephone vote. So, a huge thank you to everyone who telephoned in and voted for Kosy Komfy Kidz, we are thrilled that the project won such terrific public support!

Supporting Burton Memorial Hall's project Kosy Komfy Kidz in the Jubilee People's Millions

http://www.peoplesmillions.org.uk/2011-finalists/border/kosy-komfy-kidz

I'm making a plea for help! Help Burton Memorial Hall in Burton-in-Kendal, south Cumbria, is 1 of the final 6 projects in the 2011 Jubilee People's Millions contest in the Border TV region. The contest will be determined by public telephone vote on Tuesday 28 June 2011 (a bit like X-Factor for community groups!) and the Hall is going head to head with another project in the north west of Cumbria - and the project with the most telephone votes on the day will win.

The Hall (which is a registered charity and raises all its own revenue from room rentals and fundraising events) needs a lot of work doing to it: building a new toilet block for very small kids who currently can't reach the adult loos or washbasins, replacing the cracked concrete play surface with some jolly coloured softer surfacing, replacing the heating boiler that is so old (and unreliable) that no-one can remember when it was installed!, and installing better lights so our table tennis teams can compete properly to national competition standards and our drama and music groups can have some stage lighting instead of striplights! The total cost is just shy of £100,000 of work needed for this phase of restoration of our old but much-loved and well-used village hall - we're hoping to win the vote on the night for £60,000 from the Jubilee People's Millions fund (the rest comes from Hall reserves and a legacy of £20,000 left us by one of the Hall's founders.)

I'm asking for the support for the Hall's entry Kosy Komfy Kidz by voting for us on the day and by spreading the word through your contacts and networks to ask for others to support them too. All it takes is one call any-time between 9am and 12 midnight on Tuesday 28 June at a cost of 11p per call (BT landline rate) to the number which will be published on our JPM web-page: http://www.peoplesmillions.org.uk/2011-finalists/border/kosy-komfy-kidz and in the Daily Mirror on Tuesday 28 June 2011. Every vote for the project will be vital and anyone can vote (up to 10 times from the same number if you'd like to! girl cheer but just one vote would help!!!), you don't need to be local to south Cumbria or even the Border TV area in order to vote. I'll add the number here too as soon as I have it on Tuesday morning.

The Hall is vital to the village of Burton-in-Kendal, it really is a community hub and is busy every day of the week with activities for all ages and interests, but Burton is only a small community so if you can help us along by voting just once on the day you would be doing us a great service and earn the gratitude of all those involved in the project. Please help us if you can and spread the word to anyone and everyone who might help us also. Thank you!

http://www.peoplesmillions.org.uk/2011-finalists/border/kosy-komfy-kidz