Your Tollerton – the Vision
Tollerton is a vibrant community with a rich history and heritage surrounded by farmland with views of open countryside, hills and woodland.
Your Tollerton is about ensuring that residents can access community facilities that meet their needs and support village life.
At the start of 2026 the Parish Council announced an exciting new phase for the project to purchase and improve community facilities in the village. Read more about:
- The Methodist Church as a Community Hub
- St Peter’s Church Centre as a Village Hall and site for young people
- Details of this phase of the project and engagement
Success of the Your Tollerton Project so far:
Your Tollerton was launched following the pandemic as part of the village recovery plan, to support a new normal and ensure that village facilities were fit for protrude for the future. The project has seen a number of successes to date including:
- Consolidated meeting facilities around the Methodist Church and St Peter’s Church Centre to improve financial viability of facilities.
- Engaged with residents to identify future and/or unmet community needs.
- Invested £20,000 in maintenance of the parish rooms, improving the appearance of the village centre and restoring to business use
- Let the parish rooms to a local business supporting and bringing revenue income for investment in other facilities.
Following the announcement of the potential sale of the Methodist church and with St Peter’s church centre closed due to a collapsing roof, the Your Tollerton Project is now focused on acquiring and improving both facilities.
Why Your Tollerton – how it links to village priorities
The Your Tollerton project is rooted in the priorities of our residents, these can be found in
the Tollerton Parish Plan, which sets out resident’s priorities for living in the village, including:
- Rural characteristics of the village are protected and enhanced including: Open space, views, and the attractiveness of our village
- Village life and sense of community is protected and enhanced including: Village event, community activities and groups
- Existing facilities are protected and enhanced – these are very important and fundamental to village life, including: The school, playgroup, allotments, and meeting rooms; Our unique heritage, the hall, churches, pillboxes and railway.
And through the Tollerton Neighbourhood Plan which sets out land use policies for how residents expect to see Tollerton evolve as a community:
- To celebrate and look after the tranquility, landscape and heritage within our parish whilst keeping community at its heart
- To create a village hub with shops, services and community spaces that the parish can be proud of
- To encourage the delivery of community facilities and services to meet the needs of the parish today and in the future.
Find out more about the Tollerton Parish Plan here or the Tollerton Neighbourhood Plan here.
What is behind the Your Tollerton Project
Post pandemic as part of recovery planning, the parish council looked at existing facilities and engaged with residents about facilities needed in Tollerton for the future. This engagement with residents and businesses identified:
Unmet resident need: residents told the parish council that there were a range of facilities that were not available in the village, predominantly requiring a mixture of venue size and type. These included:
- Larger venue for public events, parties, indoor bouncy castles etc
- Smaller meeting rooms for local groups, home working and business meetings.
- Space for informal socialising, a hot drink and community activity
- More/regular pop up traders which would require improved infrastructure.
Capacity vs demand: Working with local drops to review existing facilities, the Parish Council identified that Tollerton had too many of the same type of venue, which were in part competing with each other for the same user. Whilst the Parish Rooms, Methodist church, St Peter’s Church Centre and Scout Hut have their differences they offered 4 similar sized halls, all with maintenance needs. Collectively the four halls struggled financially, providing more capacity than demand.
Excess demand: In addition to the needs put forward by residents the village community pub regularly turned away potential group bookings for family occasions, parties and particularly wakes. Whilst originally envisaged ans being anble to offer some function space, the successful mix of wet and food sales at the pub has limited capacity to provide for these for residents.