St John's Village Memorial Hall

Covid-19

Following the government's announcement on 19th January 2022 that Plan B restrictions in England would be lifted from 27th January 2022, the village hall remains open as a Covid-safe venue and the Management Committee continue to review the hall’s Covid-19 measures regularly as the situation changes. We will continue to aim to keep all hall hirers safe and to prevent transmission of the Covid- 19 virus between users of the hall.

With high numbers of cases in our area the Management Committee of St John's Village Memorial Hall believe it would be prudent to remain cautious, therefore we ask that hirers adhere to our guidelines to help us achieve this.

In respect of weekend celebration parties and events we will only allow one hirer to use the hall at a time, and we are limiting numbers in the hall to 100 persons. For the time being we are not permitting these to hire the small halls.

There is no longer a legal requirement to wear face coverings, but we continue to encourage all users to wear masks on entering and leaving and when using confined areas such as corridors, toilets, kitchens and store rooms.

We advise users, where possible, to open rear doors for maximum ventilation, to adopt sensible social distancing when coming into contact with other people you do not normally meet, to use hand sanitisers and regular washing of hands, encourage cleaning of contact surfaces before and after using the hall using the hall cleaning stations. The QR codes for Track and Trace are being displayed and we encourage their use.

There are 3 documents that hirers and organisers need to be made aware of in respect of COVID-19 as per links below:.

1. Covid Special Conditions of Hire (pdf form)   or   Covid Special Conditions of Hire (docx form)

If you are hiring the hall you will be required to sign this document and agree to the conditions within it for the duration of your hire. This is required in addition to the hall's general hire agreement and term and conditions.

2. COVID-19 Risk Assessment for the Hall

This document is the risk assessment prepared by the trustees and used for making the hall COVID secure. It is available to everyone to view and will be updated as required.

3. Sample Risk Assessment (pdf form)   or   Sample Risk Assessment (docx form) for hirers

This is a sample template for a COVID specific risk assessment in addition to any other risk assessment that hirers may have drawn up. The purpose of this document is to make hirers aware of COVID-19 related risks they need to plan for.

Revised 1 February 2022

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