Connecting Meads
Bringing the whole community together, all under one roof
Meads (Eastbourne) Community Centre
NEWS
Transfer of Meads Parish Hall to Meads (Eastbourne) Community Centre
Status
21st September 2024
The trustees invite the Meads community to a public meeting on Saturday 21st September at 11am in the hall where we will share more information including our progress in securing the grant funding and raising matched funding, details of the planned building works and the improvements the community can look forward to when the hall reopens in February 2025. We look forward to seeing you there!
12th September 2024
The MECC trustees are delighted to announce the historical signing of a lease between St John’s Church and the Meads (Eastbourne) Community Centre. The lease secures the hall for the community for 99 years at a peppercorn rent. It has been a long 18 months of negotiations but we have reached an agreement that benefits the community in time for the building works which will commence in early October. We are also taking the opportunity to rebrand the community hall to “Meads Hall Eastbourne
About Us
We are a charity formed with the aspiration of acquiring and operating a community centre for the benefit of the people of Meads, Eastbourne
Our target venue is St. John's Parish Hall, which after nearly a hundred years of community service is in a poor state of repair. Coupled with the PCC of St. John's wish to dispose of the hall (announced at the end of 2022), we could both save this iconic community asset and provide Meads with a welcoming, inclusive, and up-to-date community centre, with similar purposes to those envisioned when built in the early 20th century.
The site was originally gifted to the community by the Duke of Devonshire in the 19th century, for use as a school. Since that school moved to larger premises, the original building was used as a Parish Room. The current hall, built in the early 20th Century, was for continuing that same function, within a larger footprint, after the original became dilapidated.
our vision
Contact Us
Phone
info@meadsecc.org
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Address
77 Meads Road, Eastbourne,
BN20 7QL
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