Borley Village Hall, on the Essex - Suffolk border

Online maps call the road on which Borley Village Hall sits Hall Road, Borley.  Use CO10 7AE on your sat nav. 

Royal Mail and official purposes uses the address: Borley Village Hall, School Road, Borley, Sudbury CO10 7AB).

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Driving by car. Use CO10 7AE on your sat nav. You can park several cars on the lawn outside the Hall. However, this is not a formal carpark so please take care. Parking at Borley Village Hall is at your own risk. Please share a lift whenever possible. You may find a parking space along Hall Road. Or there is off-street carpark at Melford Country Park, 0.5 mile/10 minutes' walk away (use CO10 9HH on your sat nav).

Public transport. The closest bus stop to Borley Village Hall is Ropers Lane on the B1064 on the outskirts of Long Melford, from where it is a 14 minute walk. Plan your route on Google maps or using the TravelEssex app ('a journey planning app that allows you to search for sustainable travel options throughout Essex - all in one place. You can plan journeys by walking, cycling and public transport, including train and bus').

Active transport. We encourage visitors to walk or cycle whenever possible. We're next to the Stour Valley Path, the old railway line – now a lovely pedestrian and cycle route – that runs between Sudbury and Long Melford. There is a bicycle rack outside the Hall. Plan your route on Google maps.

• Look out for posters around Borley (we usually put them up near Borley Green, near the footpath around Borley Church, and outside the Village Hall).
• Follow us on Instagram.
• Check this website.
• Borley residents can sign up for emails sent on behalf of the Parish Meeting – contact the Parish Meeting Secretary if you have any queries. (Borley is too small to have a Parish Council, so all residents meet twice a year for a Parish Meeting).
• Since September 2023, the chair of the committee produces a newsletter for Borley residents about activities in the village hall.  You can find the latest copy on this website, on Instagram, and paper copies are delivered to the 49 homes in Borley. Thank you to our friends who run Parish News magazine, a Church of England focused publication that goes out to 300 subscribers across several parishes, who kindly distribute our newsletter; for any queries about Parish News please contact parisheditor@outlook.com.  

Borley residents elect a management committee trustees at an AGM. The current chair is Andrew Le Sueur, and you can contact him at home@borleylodge.com. Charlie Hamp is the secretary charliehamp89@googlemail.com. Either of us is happy to help with any enquiry.

Borley Village Hall is a charitable trust with the following object: 

• “The Property [this means Borley Village Hall] and the trust fund and its income shall be applied for the purposes of a village hall for the use of the inhabitants of the Parish of Borley, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, race or political, religious or other opinions, including use of the Property for meetings, lectures and classes or other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.”  (Deed of Trust, 15 September 2008).

Our annual income is less than £5,000, so we are not eligible to be a Registered Charity regulated by the Charity Commission for England & Wales.

Borley Parish Meeting kindly provides an annual subvention. We raise additional funds for our running costs (energy, insurance, maintenance, etc) through 

• community events
• hiring out the hall as a venue to individuals, groups, and organisations
• hiring equipment (such as tables, chairs, and gazebos).

For projects requiring larger sums of capital investment, we apply for grants from government and charities.

We'd love to hear from you if you want to help. You could run an event, do some maintenance jobs, advise on social media and marketing, help with projects, or help us develop our strategy to thrive for another 70 years. Each year, Borley residents can join the committee at the AGM. But you don't need to be on the committee to help run and develop your village hall. Please contact the current chair of the committee, Andrew Le Sueur home@borleylodge.com or Charlie Hamp the secretary charliehamp89@googlemail.com.