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Over 100 community buildings engaged in Hallmark!

When looking over its end of year statistics, the Community Council of Devon was pleased to see over 100 village halls and community buildings were now involved in Hallmark. With approximately 410 community buildings in Devon, this shows that about a ¼ are participating in the Hallmark award scheme. The scheme, which was launched ...

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Hallmark Awards 2011

A high point at this year's Devon Association of Community Buildings (DACB) conference was the presentation ceremony for Hallmark Awards. Eighteen awards were presented to twelve different community buildings celebrating the work undertaken by those management committees who had participated in the Hallmark scheme over the previous year. ...

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New quality mark for East Worlington Parish Hall

East Worlington Parish Hall in North Devon is the latest hall to achieve a Hallmark award. They recently undertook their Hallmark 1 assessment and received a glowing report for the Peer Visitors. Hallmark is a quality assurance award for community buildings and management committees can work towards three different levels. Hallmark 1 focuses ...

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Woolsery achieve Hallmark 3!

Woolsery Sports and Community Hall, in Torridge, has become the latest community building in Devon to achieve Hallmark 3. Since the launch of Devon Hallmark in February 2007, only 4 community buildings have reached the top award. Hallmark is a quality assurance award recognising the good work undertaken by volunteer management committees ...

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Kentisbury & Trentishoe Village Hall achieve Hallmark 2

Kentisbury & Trentishoe Village Hall is the latest hall to achieve Hallmark 2 status. They are the 7th community building in North Devon to achieve this level since the launch of Devon Hallmark in 2007. Hallmark is a quality assurance award for community buildings and a nation wide scheme recognising the good and hard work of volunteer m ...

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Lee Memorial Hall achieves Hallmark 1 and 2

Lee Memorial Hall is the latest community building in Devon to achieve a Hallmark award. They combined their Hallmark 1 and 2 assessments and successfully achieved both awards earlier this month. Lee Memorial Hall, along with others, will receive their awards at the annual meeting of the Devon Association of Community Buildings this summer. ...

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Lympstone Village Hall is one of the best!

Lympstone Village Hall has been awarded Hallmark 1, a quality assurance award for Community Buildings. They received a glowing report from peer visitors, Paul Kinson and John Lambert, which stated that this was 'one of the best run halls we have ever visited'. The committee demonstrated excellent management practices and paperwork, and have ...

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