How to hire a room
Look at the room characteristics and charges below to decide which room suits your requirement.
Then go back to the main menu page and select the tab for the room you require to see the on-line calendar which shows the current booking status.
Finally click the “Make an Enquiry” option of the Room Hire tab supplying the details requested and stating what room you would like, the purpose, the date and times.
Hire Charges
OLD and NEW HALLS (effective from 1st September 2023)
Regular users – £14.00 per hour
‘One off’ users – £16.00 per hour
Single Hire including parties – £60.00 per session
A session is 3.5 hours and includes use of the kitchen facilities if required.
Additional time by arrangement at £14.00 per hour or part thereof.
Inman Meeting Room (effective from 1st September 2023)
Cost per hour – £12.00
Room hires and other charge rates effective from 1st September 2024
| Hire of or provision of: – | Amount of charge per session (£. pp) for non-recurring user | Notes | |
| £. pp | |||
| Chapel for wedding | 350.00 | ||
| Chapel for funeral or memorial service | 125.00 | ||
| Minister’s fee | Amount determined by Minister and paid directly to the Minister | ||
| Organist for funeral or memorial service | 75.00 | ||
| Steward(s) for funeral or memorial service | 25.00 | Per person | |
| Audio Visual Steward for funeral or memorial service | 25.00 | Per person | |
| Old Hall including kitchen and its WCs | 18.00ph | (regular users £16.00ph) | |
| New Hall including kitchen and its WCs | 18.00ph | (regular users £16.00ph) | |
| Hall for funeral or memorial service | 75.00 | ||
| New Hall stage erection and dismantling. | 100.00 | Per event | |
| Inman Room | 12.00ph | (regular users £10.00ph) | |
| Tree House room | Charge to be determined upon application | ||
| Garden | Charge to be determined upon application | ||
| Equipment | Charge to be determined by a F&P member | ||
| Use of photocopier | 0.05 per copy | ||
| Furniture | Charge to be determined by a F&P member | ||
| Flowers may be provided at discretion of PMC | Charge to be determined by the Church’s flower provider – price based upon acquisition cost plus a display arrangement charge | ||
| Refreshments | |||
| Refreshments may be provided with staffing at the discretion of PMC.
Room hire will be charged in addition. |
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| Tea and coffee | 3.00pp | ||
| Tea, coffee and cake | 6.50pp | ||
| Hot drinks, sandwiches, savouries and cakes | 10.00pp | ||
| Booking: enquire via website:www.poppletonmethodistchurch.org.uk | |||
| Key to abbreviations used in above table: PMC = Poppleton Methodist Church, F&P = Finance and Property Committee, ph = per hour or part thereof, pp = per person | |||
Rooms sizes and facilities
New Hall
Dimensions: 12.75 x 8.4 metres (41 ft 9 inches x 25 ft 6 inches).
Can be used as an empty space or with chairs and tables to suit.
There is an electronic piano/organ, a sound system, a drop down screen and connections
for a laptop projection and access to the internet through wi-fi.
The hall has bifold doors at the rear which open onto the lawned garden with flagged patio.
There are adjacent toilets and a mini kitchen area
There is direct access to the hall via a passage down the right-hand side from the Green.
Inman Meeting Room
Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.45 meters (16 ft 8 inches x 11 ft 3 inches).
Can be used as an empty space or with chairs and tables to suit.
Access to the internet through wi-fi.
There are adjacent toilets and a mini kitchen area.
There is direct access to the meeting room via a passage down the right hand side from the Green.
Old Hall
Dimensions: 11.65 x 6 metres (38 ft 2 inches x 19 ft 8 inches) with
an extension with folding partition doors 4 x 2.80 metres (13ft x 9 ft).
Can be used as an empty space or with chairs and tables to suit.
There is a piano, a drop down screen and connections for a
laptop projection and access to the internet through wi-fi.
There are adjacent toilets and a kitchen.
There is direct access to the hall from the Green.