Old Rayne Village Hall

🏫 H I R E S T L A W R E N C E H A L L 🏫

📢 Do you have a activity class or regular group and are looking for that perfect location? Well hosting duties is where we can help. 🤗

📍 St Lawrence Hall is in the heart of Old Rayne, just off the A96, so is perfectly located. The hall also has a large stage and ample seating, whilst having modern kitchen appliances to suit any hiring needs. Being a local SCIO (Charitible Organisation), have piece of mind that all funds raised from hiring the hall out, goes right back into keeping St Lawrence Hall open and ticking along for the wider community to enjoy. 🥰

🧘 So, if your pilates class, yoga class, gardening club or even dog sports classes are looking for that perfect new location, St Lawrence Hall can help you host. 🤩

📩 [email protected] 📩

🤩 TONIGHT 🤩 He's back by popular demand 🎉

👉 Big Daddy's Street Food 👈

🤩 THIS THURSDAY 🤩 He's back by popular demand 🎉

👉 Big Daddy's Street Food 👈

🌸 Old Rayne Village Flowers 🌼

🧑‍🌾 After a day of playing with pots, the village flowers are now out to be enjoyed by the whole community. 🙌

📢 We would like to thank and give a big shout out to Morrisons Inverurie - Community for providing the village with with free and discounted annual Plants. 🙏

📢 Also a huge appreciation to Kellockbank Garden Centre for providing the village with hugely discounted compost, which has topped up all the planters and for the beautiful center peices in the tractor tyre planters which will be enjoyed for years to come. 🤗

✌️ Also a big shout out to the members of the St Lawrence Hall SCIO team who helped to make this happen. 🦆

🥰 Finally, Old Rayne looking beautiful this summer, is directly down to your community spirit and donations. Old Rayne Community spirit is the best kind 🫶.

In Memory of George Skinner

As one of the hall's original trustees, George played an important role in helping create and support the community facility we enjoy today. We would like to take this opportunity to remember and thank him for his dedication, commitment and service to the hall and community over many years.

You used to be able to spot him a mile off, walking with his distinctive gait and hat set at a jaunty angle. Every single day he was up at the crack of dawn, ready for a day’s work. We all know George Skinner! He was an extraordinary man whose reputation as a leader, a facilitator went ahead of him. He was hardworking, plain speaking and a thoroughly good man who looked out for others and for this community. There is no doubt we will never see his like again, but we hope he will continue to inspire us.

George helped to resurrect Lourin Fair, which goes back to the Middle Ages when Rayne was granted the right to hold a market. It remained a feeing market until just before the WW2. In the 1970s, George helped bring it back to life as a fundraiser for St Lawrence Hall.

Together with two other members of the Old Rayne community, he laid the foundations of ORCA, the Old Rayne Community Association. He was instrumental in the building, expansion and maintenance of St Lawrence Hall, and showed remarkable leadership in establishing initiatives such as the Sunday School, Whist Club, Bowling Club and Playgroup.

More recently, he was a great supporter and driving force behind ORCA's successor, St Lawrence Hall Old Rayne SCIO. He also committed countless hours of work to many other committees and fundraising efforts, supporting causes locally, throughout the wider community and further abroad.

George was kind, but he spoke the truth, even when it was not what you wanted to hear, always direct and to the point.
He was an excellent speaker, a man of great wit and with a sharp insight into humankind and nature - always neatly and aptly put in Doric. We all loved his stories, his observations and his weather forecasts…

George will be greatly missed by our community, but we are lucky to have known him. His legacy remains all around us, and his example will continue to inspire us for many years to come.

🍟 Chipper Fridays in Old Rayne 🐟 go on, it is the end of the week after all 😋

👉 Mr Chipper 👈

🌸🌹 Old Rayne Village Flowers 🌼 🏵️

💥 We are delighted to announce that the grand total of the Village Flowers Crowdfund is,

💷 £8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ thats 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣% of our original target!

🫶 This money will directly go into making your village look beautiful this year and into the spring of next 🌷.

📢 A big shout out and thanks to the young people at our Village Primary School for all their help and weeding 🧑‍🌾 . Finally thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. 🙌

🙏 Please remember there are still opportunities to get involved by offering some volunteer time this weekend in our Village Plant-a-long 😊

😍 Old Rayne Community Spirit at it's Finest 👌

🌸 Village Plant-a-long Weekend 🌻

🫶 Thanks to everyones amazing and very generous crowdfunding, we are now about ready to start planting 🥳. If you have a spare hour next weekend (30th & 31st), we would love a hand with planting and arranging the villages new pots and flowers. 🧑‍🌾

🥰 We are just blown away by the total we have raised so far and will be closing the Just Giving page by Wednesday 27th at 4pm in order to finish buying things for next weekend. If you haven't donated yet, every penny counts ♥️ and if you have already your village salutes you 🫡. We can't wait to share the final total on Thursday 🤗

♥️ Old Rayne Community spirit is the best kind 😋

⬇️ Just Giving Crowdfunding Page ⬇️

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/stlawrence-hallscio?utm_medium=CF&utm_source=CL&fbclid=IwdGRjcASA6TljbGNrBIDpMWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhYG4AuPb7ZT2EZjmGLNg-N_NVAROEQX1mLjZp0DqX5PFPkT8quyRtpZxpb0_aem_htVd198RCQT1b5SYi6FFdg

🤩 What another brilliant evening at 🦆 The Lourin Duck 🦆 Pop-up Pub.

🥰 It's that Old Rayne community spirit which allows us to put on events like these, so cheers 🍻 to everyone who came along to show their support. 🫶

Our next food van is
➡️ 🐟 Mr Chipper 🍟every Friday evening ⬅️

Our next event is
➡️ The Lourin BBQ & Duck Race on 15th August ⬅️

🦆 The next Lourin Duck 🦆 Pop-up Pub is
➡️ 3rd October ⬅️

Did you enjoy your evening? 😋

💨 Smoke and Soul🎙️ are in the village 🤙

😋 Come get a fine feed before you head to the Pub 🍻

📍 Find them at St Lawrence Hall Car Park..

🙌 Open to all 😁