Success Story

Village Halls Retrofit Fund

12/05/2025

Funding

House under exterior wall renovation with red roof

This fund, allocated by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund is aimed at supporting village halls across the Scottish Borders to adopt energy-efficient measures.

With a total of £186,000 available, we have supported 14 village halls to implement improvements like the installation of solar panels, improved insulation, LED lighting and heating system upgrades. With a further allocation of underspend this increased to £242,590.

£8000 of this funding is allocated to evaluating the effectiveness of the fund, which we hope to help leverage and secure further funding. This support will enable halls to continue to reduce energy consumption and lower their carbon footprints, as a result village halls can become more sustainable and cost-effective community hubs.

We are delighted to confirm the successful applicants as follows:

Caddonfoot £18,160.00
Chirnside Village Hall £11,525.00
Coldstream Community Centre £5,904.00
Forman Memorial Hall £2,200.00
Glendouglas Community Hall £16,130.00
Hermitage Village Hall £30,752
Hutton Village Hall £5,197.12
Lilliesleaf Village Hall £38,070
Newstead Village Hall £3,960.00
Oxnam Village Hall £10,289.22
Oxton War Memorial Hall £1,545.00
Traquair Village Hall £24,938.27
Walkerburn Public Hall £8,484.00
Whitsome Ark £3,534.78

A further 35 halls, including x community centres were also awarded funding to provide energy-efficiency assessments, this will enable those halls to plan future projects in preparation fr the Community Spaces Decarbonisation fund becoming available in the 2025/26 financial year: