VILLAGE HALLS
HINDERWELL Village Hall is ideal for small conferences, training courses, parties, presentation evenings etc. The main hall is 18m x 10m, 100 seated, the community room is 5m x 5m, 20 seated, training room 5m x 4m, 15 seated, reception area 4m x 4m, car parking 17 spaces, two disabled. 
Equipment and facilities: multi media projector and screen, overhead projector, eight channel PA system, TV for training, video/DVD, photocopier, Broadband connection, computer suite, two flip chart easels, fully equipped kitchen, vending drinks machine, catering available.
ACTIVITIES in the village hall now include: Monday, Bridge Club 7-9pm, beginners welcome (£1.50), line dancing 7.30pm £3; Tuesday, 9am-9pm hourly bookings for badminton, table tennis, unihoc, mini tennis, free use of equipment (£1.50 per person); Wednesday, IT Group, learn at your own pace, 1.30-3.30pm (free), junior indoor athletics 5-6pm, start date to be confirmed (free), 7-9pm indoor bowls, beginners welcome (£1.50); Thursday, 10am-12.30pm craft class (£1.50); 7.30pm beginners’ line dancing (£3). The hall is available to hire for meetings and group activities, £4 per hour. New ceiling drapes available for weddings, private parties, dances etc. Ring 840196 or 840561 to book the hall or for further details.
ST HILDA'S OLD SCHOOL is available for hire at £5 per hour to include use of kitchen. If your club/group/committee require a room for meetings, coffee mornings or dominoes drives then contact Janet Lonsdale on 840038.
STAITHES MEMORIAL HALL
The building was purchased from the Territorial Army with money raised through community donations and fund-raising; to be a memorial to those from the village who gave their lives in the two world wars.
Hire charges (by the hour): committee room £4, main room £6, main room for parties £7, entertainment using all rooms £10 (plus £5 for use of stage), whole hall all day £50, wedding reception £60 (evening's entertainment by the hour). 
All bookings can be made through Veronica Foster on (01947) 840374.
ACTIVITIES in the village hall include: Monday, whist drive 7pm; Tuesday, Brownies 5.30pm, keep fit 7.30pm; Wednesday, Pilates 3.45pm, disco dancing 5pm, Fit Tots alternative Wednesdays 1.30pm; Friday, Country Dancing 7pm; Saturday, dominoes drive 7.30pm.
LYTHE VILLAGE HALL
Lythe is located some four miles to the north west of Whitby on the A174. It is a small village with a population in the 1991 census of around 480 people; it is probably slightly fewer today.
There is only one shop in the village, the "Store" which is also the Post Office.
There is a local retained fire station which is manned by local personnel on a voluntary basis.
Local businesses include a car servicing garage, a metalwork fabricating workshop, a stained glass workshop, a panel-beating/spray painting business and a timber yard.
The village hall (Registered Charity No 503588) is situated opposite the shop and is the old school building, commemoration stones show that it was built in 1819, extended in 1872 and became the village hall in 1977.
The hall is used on a regular basis by Lythe Village Toddlers' Group every alternate Wednesday morning - contact Julie or Lisa on (01947) 893515. On the alternate Wednesday mornings between 10.15-11.15am Fit Tots use the hall for their group, contact - Interactive on (01947) 601259, fax (01947) 825796.
Thursday afternoons between 1.30-2.30pm the hall
is used by Art Tots, contact - Interactive on (01947) 601259.
Commencing January 2007 painting classes conducted by Mr Robert Brindley RSMA will be held every Thursday evening, contact - Mr Brindley on (01947) 811225 for details.
The hall is available for hire for a variety of uses, ie exercise classes, parties, conferences, dances, concerts, exhibitions, jumble sales, table top/car boot sales, whist/dominoes drives, public meetings, shows, concerts, exhibitions, etc, at attractive rates, currently £7 per hour, which includes heating and lighting, but negotiable for longer periods. A Liquor Licence can be obtained by application to the Secretary or the Licensing Officer, Scarborough Council. It is also used occasionally as accommodation for visiting groups such as Brownies, etc. The hall has a well-equipped kitchen, a coin-operated meter taking 20p coins is used for power to the appliances; both male and female toilets are provided. There is a full size snooker table, which is used by two local snooker teams, both for practice and competition.
For bookings, contact Kate Hinchliffe, tel: (01947) 893133.
The committee are: chair, Rosina Rothwell, tel: (01947) 604625; deputy chair and treasurer, Jim Lucas, tel: (01947) 893543, until end March 2007; secretary, Laura Rothwell, tel: (01947) 606198.
Adequate free parking is available in the village, on the nearby common or in the village hall grounds.
The nearest doctor's surgery is located at Sandsend; the resident doctor is Dr Ian Suckling, telephone 0844 477 3718.
St Oswald's Church, Lythe is the parish church, the rector is the Rev Barry Pike who lives at the Rectory, Hinderwell and looks after St Mary's,
Sandsend, Christ Church, Ugthorpe, St Hilda's, Hinderwell and St Nicholas, Roxby. Details of services and other activities are published in the "Village News and Views" published monthly, price 40p and available from all local shops in the diocese.
