Jubilee Institute
The Jubilee Institute in Rothbury has been at the heart of village life since 1897. It is situated at the centre of the village, at the corner of Bridge Street and Townfoot, a stone's throw from the River Coquet. The Institute provides the community of Upper Coquetdale with an attractive location for a wide variety of meetings, activities and social functions. Extensive development and re-furbishment of the Institute has taken place over the last three years to bring it up to a high standard suitable for today's environment.
The Jubilee Institute contains rooms and halls of varying sizes, ranging from small meeting rooms to a large hall with a stage and seating for over 240 people. There is a kitchen and a computer room. There are modern digital audio/visual facilities for projecting films and for computer-aided projection to accompany presentations.
Amongst the regular users of the Institute are an amateur dramatic group, Scouts & Cubs, a daycare centre, an adult training outreach facility, a youth drop-in centre, and Over-60s club, adult education courses, a community cinema (for more information, please see www.rothburycinema.com) and the traditional Rothbury music festival.
The rooms available for hire are as follows:
Ground Floor
Angus Armstrong Hall - the main hall (with a stage) seating up to 249 people, with modern digital audio/visual equipment including surround sound, PC input and a large screen, suitable for film projection and presentations. There is a hearing loop for the hard of hearing in this Hall.
Simonside room - a medium sized room adjoining the kitchen.
Cheviot room - also medium sized and adjoining the main hall, with a small stage and its own facilities for providing light refreshments.
First Floor
(Most of the first floor can be accessed by stairs or lift)
Dovecote room - a medium sized conference room with its own facilities for providing light refreshments.
IT training suite - this modern well-equipped suite has 8 new PCs and TFT monitors, printing facilities and high speed broadband access.
Blaeberry room - a small meeting room.
Cragside room (accessible by stairs only) - a small meeting room.
Other Features
For wheelchair users there are accessible lift and toilet facilities.
The Hall has an entertainments licence but not a liquor licence but hirers are free to organise their own bar licence.
Limited parking is available on High Street and Townfoot. There is a car park with 63 spaces at Cowhaugh, a few minutes walk from the Hall.
Hiring Details
Rooms are usually hired for the morning (9am to 1pm) , the afternoon (1pm to 5pm) or the evening (6pm to 11pm) or for the complete day. Hirings may be extended to finish after 11pm at night but attract additional hourly charges. Subject to availability, shorter booking periods may be possible. The main kitchen is available in conjunction with most hirings on request. The audio/visual equipment can be hired at additional charge.
Please telephone Fiona Foreman, the caretaker, on 01669 621311 for all booking enquiries, including the current scale of charges. All hirers will be required to complete a form accepting the conditions of hiring.
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