Welcome to Barnham and Eastergate Community Trust
It's all about community!
Featured events coming up across the Trust
Facilities We Provide
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Barnham Community Hall
A modern, spacious, welcoming, flexible space designed to meet all the needs of a growing community. A great space to meet, come to events or run your own
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Eastergate Village Hall
Unlike most other villages, Eastergate gained its Parish Hall as a result of fears that war was imminent, rather than because of a demand for a local meeting place.
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Eastergate Sports Pavilion
Eastergate Sports Pavilion is a facility owned and operated by Barnham and Eastergate Parish Council
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MAMF
Every year, we run a fantastic local music festival event, right in the heart of the beautiful village of Barnham. A festival stage and a great collection of acts, you’re sure to have a wonderful night.
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Community Lottery
Barnham and Eastergate Community Lottery is an opportunity for you to win £500 and support a terrific local charity at the same time
Latest News from across the Trust
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About Us
In June 2001 West Sussex County Council and Barnham Parish Council entered into a 99 year lease relating to 3.64 hectares of land behind the ‘old hall’ land on which the new hall & recreational facilities were to be built.
In 2013 Barnham Community Centre Charitable Trust was set up to run the new Barnham Community Hall. B.L.A.D.E fundraised for the new hall and field maintenance.
BCCCT AND B.L.A.D.E merged in 2016 and B.L.A.D.E was formally wound up and effectively Barnham Community Trust (BCT) was formed.
This new charity was responsible for the management and improvement of the new Community Hall and Murrells Field.
Once the two parish councils Barnham and Eastergate combined in 2019 Barnham and Eastergate Community Trust (BECT) was created to managed both Barnham Community Hall and Eastergate Village Hall. This is still the case today and the charity is thriving, financially stable and is creating a wide variety of classes, courses, indoor and outdoor events for enjoyment and social benefits of the wider community of Barnham and Eastergate.
We serve our community
We’re here to serve our community, providing spaces and events for you to help people connect
Social Space
We provide high-quality, well equipped, flexible spaces in 3 locations for you to host your clubs, groups, classes or other gatherings
Community Events
We arrange hundreds of events throughout the year including our marquee Music and Fireworks events
Leisure Space
We ensure that our community has safe, open spaces to socialise, play or exercise, whatever the weather
Make a donation or join us.
With a small staff and a large base of community volunteers, a small amount of your time can make a big difference
Join Us
A lot of work done by Barnham and Eastergate Community Trust is done by volunteers. Whether it’s our trustees or volunteers who help us to organise and run events throughout the year, we rely on the community to help us help our community. If you’re interested in meeting new people and getting stuck in, whether it’s for an hour a year or an hour a week, we’d love to hear from you.
