Great Houghton Village Hall Committee

26/09/2026

2026 Pumpkin Carving Competition! 🎃👻 Trying to make the holidays a little easier, stress-free, a little easier on the pocket and full of fun for your family with our free pumpkin to enter competition for 5 - 16 yr olds

🎃All you have to do is show up, grab your free supplies, and let the kids work their creative magic safely on your kitchen top!

🎃Bring your child/children up to place their carved pumpkin on Friday 30th October & the judges will be along later to look at all your spookily creative entries.

23/08/2026

And here’s another massive thank you…to all of you who supported our Family Fun Day.
Whether you baked, donated items to sell, donated tombola & raffle prizes, gave your time or turned up on the day a spent money with us, in total you helped us to raise £688.00 towards our future events!!!

Dare we say it? Roll on Christmas & the Christmas Lights Switch On, as always it will be on the first Thursday in December 💙

23/08/2026

A Huge Thank You! 💙🎉

A HUGE thank you to everyone who came along and supported our 2026 Family Fun Day yesterday! 🥳

We do our best for every event we hold and the day was packed with fun, laughter and smiles, and we’ve been absolutely delighted to hear so many lovely comments, thanks and compliments from those who attended. They are truly appreciated and mean so much to us. ❤️

A very special thank you goes to the young people from Great Houghton Youth Group, who worked hard to secure this year’s funding from BMBC – Great Childhoods Ambition, helping to make the event possible. 👏

And of course, a massive thank you to all our amazing volunteers. Without your time, hard work and dedication, the Family Fun Day simply could not have happened. 🙌

Thank you once again to everyone who baked, donated goods for sales, shared our posts, came along, supported us and helped make the day such a fantastic success!

From everyone at Great Houghton Village Hall Committee — THANK YOU! ❤️🎪🎉

21/08/2026

One more sleep….Free Family Fun Tomorrow…gates open at 12pm at Great Houghton Welfare Hall 🥳🥳 🥳

19/08/2026

A quick message to all our lovely supporters…if you’re able to donate tombola prizes or cakes/buns for Saturdays Family Fun Day we’ve be extremely thankful. You can drop them off at the Welfare Hall 9.30am - 11.30am 🙏🏼

19/08/2026

A Great Houghton Resident has very kindly offered these items for us to sell. They can be picked up on Saturday at our Family Fun Day at Great Houghton Welfare Hall. Let us know if you want any of them & we’ll save them for you.

All funds raised will go towards our village events. A massive thank you to those who donate 🥰

15/08/2026

Just a week away now…lots of free family fun ☀️☀️☀️

Here’s a date for your diaries- A firm favourite with lots of family fun 🎉 As always our Family Fun Day is free to attend with free access to inflatables, rodeo bull & climbing wall.
😎😎SAVE THE DATE EVERYONE😎😎
♥️Working with Great Houghton Youth Group & Funded By BMBC’s Great Childhoods Ambition via the Ambitions Arena ♥️

02/08/2026

All good stuff 🎉

More sessions of fun for Children & Young People to enjoy and we’re so thankful to have this provision. The BYouth sessions are organised by the Barnsley Council South Area Team, you can catch the them at the Skate Park on Tuesday.

There’s also the hugely popular Adaptive Gaming Youth & Community CIC sessions, Great Houghton Youth Group session and the Fun Grassroots Sports Academy Yorkshire sessions. All organised by Great Houghton Youth Group.

All that’s left to do is turn up!!! ✅⚽️🏹🧒🏼👧🏽👦🏻🕹️🥳

02/08/2026

Our Family Fun Day is nearly here and this year’s event is a little different! This year children from the village have accessed funding & planned the event together. They’ve just put out a post for tombola prizes, cakes & buns. We know how kind you all are every year, so please try & donate if you can. Any money we make on the day goes straight back into village events & projects.

You can drop the tombola prizes off at the Welfare any Monday - Friday 9.30am - 11.30am from tomorrow (3rd August) but any baking needs dropping off on 21st August.

Thank you for all the help you give us, we very much appreciate it 🥰

10/04/2026

🫶🏼🫶🏼 Love Our Village…Community spirit by the shed loads 🫶🏼🫶🏼