Shire Way Community Centre

The Centre, Shire Way, Yate, BS37 8YS
Tel: 01454 273050
Web: www.shireway.co.uk
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Come to us for your charity fundraising event. We can offer a race evening with dogs or horses, skittles and/or kurling, various traditional bar games, and of course food.

Interested in holding seminars, conferences or training sessions for your employees or customers? We can supply big screens and refreshments, from tea and coffee to three course meals. We have facilitated Honda, Courage, FSB and other training companies in the past.

If you would like a special evening of entertainment for your fundraising event or social evening, please let us know. We have run a Bavarian evening, a Caribbean evening with steel band, and a line dancing evening. We can arrange a variety of different tastes of music from heavy metal to modern pop, blues and tribute bands.

Does your company have a team of any sort? Are they looking for a venue to play? We would welcome any new darts, pool, skittles or poker teams, or players to form new teams.

Regular User Groups Meeting Times

Monday
Bristol Stroke Foundation 2-4pm
Shire Way Senior Citizens' Club 2-4pm
U3A Bridge Club 1.30-5pm
Salsa Dancing 6-11pm

Tuesday
Probus (fortnightly) 9.30am-1pm
Yate MAMA 11am-1pm
Line Dancing 6-10.30pm

Wednesday
Line Dancing 10am-noon
Ballroom/Latin dancing (except 2nd Wednesday each month). Intermediate class 7-8pm, Beginners class 8-9pm, practice 9-10pm.
Sodbury Vale Family History Group (monthly) 7.30-11pm

Thursday
Jo Jingles 9.30am-12.45pm
Downend Day Centre 10am-4pm
Disco Dance Class 5.30-7.30pm
Kickboxing 7.45-10.30pm
X-stitch (monthly) 8-10pm
Lions Club (fortnightly) 8pm-10.30pm

Friday
Friendship Club Day Centre 10am-4pm
Yate Deaf Association (monthly) 8-11pm

Sunday
Blackdragon Kickboxing 10am-12noon
Bingo 7.45-9.30pm

Rooms for Hire

Main Hall
Our Main Hall is licensed to hold up to 150 people at a function. It has a stage, its own bar and a dance floor.

Skittle Hall
The Skittle Hall has two alleys, which can be hired for private games. It can also be converted into a function room for up to 150 people, with its own bar and a dance floor.

Large Activity Room

This room will hold 25-30 people depending on the function. It is very popular with our customers as a venue for holding children's parties.

Small Activity Room
Used primarily as a meeting room, it will hold 12-15 people. It can also be used in conjunction with the Large Activity Room for children's parties.

Restaurant
Seating about 40 and overlooking the future playing fields across to the hills of Wales.

Midway Social Club

Formed in 1983, the Midway Social Club runs the bar facilities at the Shire Way Community Centre.

The club provides a pleasant Lounge Bar for members to drink socially with family and friends. Now with adult-only area and non-smoking areas. Children are welcome, but must be kept under parental control.

There is a spacious patio for members to enjoy their drinks outside, with a large enclosed play area for the children.

A number of sporting groups have been formed to give members the opportunity to represent the club and compete locally. These include skittles, darts, cribbage, pool, football and hockey.

Midway Social Club is registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act. Registration number 24477R.

Midway Social Club can now offer a full catering service ranging from teas/coffees for meetings to a buffet or sit-down dinner for up to 120 people, bar meals and restaurant facilities.

Accessibility

Our Centre is built all on one level, with a ramp for wheelchair access, wide or double doors throughout and two disabled toilets. We have now installed an induction loop in both of our halls.

History of the Centre

In 1980 the Westerleigh Parish Council supported by Dodington Parish Council called a public meeting to discuss ways and means of providing a much-needed community building in South Yate.

Less than three years later, the Shire Way Community Association proudly opened the Shire Way Community Centre. It was soon evident that the building was too small.

After four years, an extension was added on the South side to enlarge the social facilities, whilst the community facilities were enhanced by the provision of space for changing rooms for stage and sporting events.

A further expansion of the building took place in 1993, when a kitchen extension was added, and this has enabled the Association to provide a full catering service for private functions.

An eagerly awaited refurbishment of the Lounge and Main Hall has been completed and now includes a restaurant, seating about 40.

Plans exist to provide sports pitches on over 13 acres of adjoining land, and sources of funding this development are currently being investigated.

We also have a composting site for keen gardeners!