Restoration Project

RESTORATION UPDATE

The restoration project is now nearly complete. This four-year, £224,000 project has provided; modern toilets, a new heating system, facilities for the disabled, improved insulation and a new bar!  The photograph below shows the new bar, the redecorated and insulated main hall, the wheel-chair friendly access and main entrance and the new hall in use.  The Institute is now warm, dry and an appealing place for village events and a characterful venue for hirers.

The final major phase of the project in late 2025 and early 2026 included re-roofing and the installation of solar panels and batteries.  This £48,000 final phase will address the final causes of damp and will all but eliminate the largest running costs - electricity, thanks grants provided by the Northern Powergrid Foundation, the National Lottery, Bernard Sunley Foundation and North Yorkshire Moors National Parks Authority.

Many thanks to these organisations and the others listed below and local people who kindly provided the funds to make the restoration possible and the hundreds of attendees to our many fund-raisings events held in recent years.

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