Restoration Project

RESTORATION UPDATE

The building works are now nearly complete. This three-year, £176,000 restoration 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 phase of the project has recently started with the sanding and re-sealing the wooden floor.  It now looks new! During the next three months, Kilburn's Institute will be re-roofed and solar panels and batteries installed.  This fully-funded £50,000 final phase will address the final causes of damp and will all but eliminate the largest running costs - electricity, thanks to the Northern Powergrid Foundation.

Many thanks to those other organisations 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.

Watch Kilburn Village Institute Refurbishment (youtube.com)