Victoria Hall Oakham Rutland Kino Cinema a possible loss of a community asset.

Firstly I agree Oakham needs a cinema so I have no issue with the proposal originally made by Rutland Kino a few years ago.

What I object to is the chosen location used by the community albeit not as much as it should be used.

Some people comment that the handing over the whole building to a private company means it is still a community asset its not. Its a business for profit and personally I can't find any boutique cinema that can afford to show the latest releases.

We lost our only public theatre and the art gallery some years ago.

Over the years the Trustees of Victoria Hall have claimed money from various charities stating Victoria Hall is a community hall.

Money was claimed for a new community kitchen and is let to a commercial company.

Thousands of Pounds of charity money was spent on renovating the hall this included taking down the suspended ceiling and revealing the ceiling upstairs. 

Why would you take thousands of pounds from charity to remove the suspended ceiling, clean out all the dead pigeons and poop and restore this fine ceiling to let someone who wants to run a private company box it back in? I will use Victoria Halls owns words to describe that 

'The removal of the 1950’s hung ceiling revealed the original Victorian high vaulted ceiling with its cast iron supports which is a visual delight!'  

This  photo one of many I have shows one of the many community consultations held in the hall. This was Aldi 2013.

Some of the old trustees need removing and the correct number from both councils need appointing for the required four year term of office.

There should be 3 trustees from Rutland County Council and 3 from Oakham Town Council appointed by the council not the trustees after an election for 4 years.

There should be 9 residents from Oakham appointed trustees for a max term of 5 years.

I think because the trustees have chosen to reduce the number to a little group of  5 Trustees is why the best decisions for the hall are not being made. It unclear who are trustees because the list on the website is different from that on the charity commissioners website.

https://www.victoriahall.org/about-us/meet-the-team/

I am not mentioning names on this post, I will just say, I am told at least one of those 5 does not even attend meetings.