A campaign has been launched to revitalise a village hall with the introduction of a new website and the appointment of two new trustees.

Buckland Village Hall, which is based near Aylesbury, now has an online booking system which hopes to make things easier for potential customers.

Those wishing to hire the hall will be invoiced via the system and will be able to make their payments to the charity through the website, which also features a brief survey.

The survey has been designed to get some basic answers from the local community on how they have used the hall in the past and what it might be used for in the future.  

The two new trustees are Linda Oatley and Richard Peel, who has been appointed the Chair of the Charity.

Richard said: “We all want to reinvigorate the charity by holding more activities and events and creating a genuine hub for the community.

“We’ll do this by consulting more widely, locally; by promoting events and activities more vigorously and by being transparent in all we do.

 “We want to make this a ‘hall for us all’ and that means encouraging, in particular, more activities for young people, greater use of the hall for arts and educational purposes and the scheduling of a few bigger events to bring the community together.”

The Village Hall is run by the Buckland Old School Trust, a registered charity, with a mission to fulfil its charitable purpose by making the village hall an all-inclusive place of recreation for the community of Buckland Parish by continuously consulting the public on its use and being transparent about its management and finances.