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St Peter's Village Hall
A premium live performance and community venue right in the heart of Paekākāriki.
Cnr Beach Rd and Ames St Paekākāriki
A beloved home to events, concerts, a bike library, monthly market, an annual book fair, winter film festival, art show and much more, run by the Paekākāriki Community Trust.
Hall Hire
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St Peter’s Village Hall is a great venue for all sorts of events, meetings, work gatherings, programmes, shows, and celebrations.
Hall Hire
Feel free to call Jan Borland on 0275 704 230 (for general enquiries, bookings, and pricing) or Derek Borland on 021 654 339 or Francis Mills on 0210 565 787 (for general / techy / AV questions) – in advance of booking if you have any questions.
Noise: Please note that the Hall is subject to the Kāpiti Coast District Council’s noise control regulations and because it is located in a residential area, the Hall is not suitable for loud events.
Monday to Saturday – all noise to stop by 10.45pm. The hall is to be vacated by midnight.
Sunday nights – all noise to stop by 8.30pm. The hall is to be vacated by 10.00pm.
The hall has a legal capacity of 195. Please think carefully and ensure that you have booked sufficient time for set up and clean up as we may be unable to accommodate extra time at the last minute. Groups or individuals, may be asked for additional information to satisfy the requirements of the Trust.
Hire rates cover use of the hall and stage, 25 trestle tables (760mm x 1830mm) and 155 chairs.
Hall size:
Width – 9.2m; Length – 11.7m (stage front to entry door, minus alcove and lobby)
Stage size:
Depth – 4.5m (front to back); Width of opening – 7.2m
WIFI – we have streaming capability. Great for powerpoint presentations. We always advise a back-up, as with any internet system. Hirers can ask their Hall Host for the password.
Accessibility – both the entrance and toilets are wheelchair accessible. No wheelchair acess to the stage.
General Kitchen Use – there are 100+ mugs; 30 tea cups and saucers; 120 side plates; 20 drinking glasses; 4 coffee plungers; a variety of serving plates; and a limited supply of cutlery. (Pics of kitchen gear here). If you are using the hall for making drinks only, there will be no extra charge.
A Use of Kitchen charge applies for use of the kitchen for preparing food, catering purposes, use of oven, use of pie warmer, and for special equipment. You’ll find more pictures of the hall here and on our Facebook page.
What YOU need to bring – please bring your own tea towels, rubbish bags etc, and remember to take your rubbish with you.
Please ensure you leave the hall as you found it with all chairs and tables put away. As the hall floor has recently been replaced, please do not drag chairs across the floor but use the trolley provided at the back of the hall. Stack chairs in multiples of 10. Five stacks per row.
Health and Safety – we advise you to apppoint someone responsible for this at your event, who will take charge of ensuring safe exit in case of fire; and determine procedures for an earthquake. Health and Safety is the Hirer’s responsibility.
Please note: The Trust reserves the right to have a Trust Member present at events to protect the interests of the Hall.
Weddings
Weddings are popular at St Peter’s Village Hall either as the main wedding ceremony venue, or the reception venue, or both.
Our Hall looks spectacular when decorated (see link for photos below). The deck is situated through double doors, and a marquee can be erected on this area, with or without sides. Many weddings choose to use the deck area and marquee for their bar and food servery area.
A beautiful garden backdrops this deck area too – click here for wedding photos.
Wedding parties love Paekakariki as a wedding destination – a smaller unique venue that can be decorated to suit your taste; great photo opportunities at the beach; many accommodation options within the village and surrounding area; village shops and cafés; a hotel and bottle store.
We have 150 chairs plus 25 trestles; tablecloths for hire, both black, and white; catering equipment to serve 100; a fully functional kitchen with a large oven, fridge, and pie warmer, and plenty of space for yourself or a caterer to work.
Our Hall has many extras to hire – please see below.
You will be assigned a Wedding Host (a volunteer) from the St Peter’s Village Hall team who will help and support you through the process of booking, checking out the venue, and deciding on your requirements, up to and including your wedding day. There will be a Host fee of $100 charged for this.
We have several small businesses within our village who can help with your wedding: eg. Honey Flower (Florist); Beach Road Deli (Catering); Hairdressers; Paekakariki Holiday Park and Finns Hotel for accomodation; plus many Air BnB’s. Ask your Wedding Host if you need contact details.
Please feel free to contact Jan to ask about viewing the hall, pricing, and suggestions, on 0275 704 230 or email: [email protected]
When booking your wedding, please allow enough time for setting up the venue and for cleaning up afterwards. This cannot be done at midnight, as weddings normally use much, or all, of our equipment, and a satisfactory clean-up needs to be done the next day. Therefore we suggest either a 24-hour or 48-hour hire period be chosen. Please discuss this when making your booking.
There is a church next door – St Peter’s Anglican Church – you can enquire here if you wish to find out more about this as a ceremony venue:
[email protected]
Hire Charges
Hire charges go towards hall running costs – rates, rent on the land, power, water, insurance, cleaning, maintenance, improvements and so on. The hall is run by volunteers; all proceeds of your hall hire go directly to the Paekakariki Community Trust who administer the hall for the community. We are entrusted to ensure the Hall continues to exist as a resource for the Paekakariki Community.
Hall Hire:
- Standard rate for the hall: $25 per hour. Plus extras and fees as appropriate.
- Day Rate: $450 for a 24-hour period; or $800 for 48-hour period (useful for wedding hire). Extra hours @ $25/hour. Plus extras and fees as appropriate.
- NOTE: Minimum booking Friday & Saturday nights – 4 x hours.
The Green Room (currently out of commission and not available)
Extras: (photos available here)
- Kitchen for preparing/catering/cooking food: $50 per booking. No charge if you just want to make tea and coffee.
- Crockery and cutlery hire: $2 per person. We have 100 dinner plates, side plates, dessert bowls, wine and drinking glasses, knives, forks, spoons, teaspoons, and coffee mugs. Losses/breakages to be advised to your Host, and if excessive, there will be a charge. Picture of catering setting here.
- Tablecloths (to fit trestle-size) – $3 each to cover laundering (we have 25 x black and 20 x white).
- Stage lights: $60 per hire. There are 14 bar-mounted red/green/blue LED Par stage lights. 4 x lights front of stage, 6 x overhead, 4 x back of stage. Desk controlled and simple to use.
- Hazer: $25 per hire
- Film projector and screen (including Sound System): $60 per day.
- Mic and powered speaker: $30.00
- Sound System: $30
- Powered Speakers x 5: $15 each. 2 x speakers pre mounted for public performance. 3 x speakers stored – suitable for foldback.
- Additional Power: $50 per day. For external additions to the hall, e.g. food trucks. Please note: We do not supply licencing. Visit the councils website; www.kapiticoast.govt.nz
- Marquee: $130. 6m x 3m Marquee erected on the deck of the Hall. Has 3 x side walls if required.
- Coloured Festoon Lights: $25
- “Pop Up” Black Curtains: $25 (to reduce stage area or to make a corner for performers)
- Additional Lighting for stage or hall: $30
- Scaffold Tower 5m: Daily and weekly rates by negotiation (conditions apply).
- Cleaning Fee/Bond. The Trust reserves the right to charge a $250 cleaning fee/bond. The bond will be returned to you at the end of the hire if the hall is left clean and in the condition it was in before the hire. Rubbish must always be taken away by the hirer.
- Function Assistance: $50 pp. The Trust offers to provide a function assistant (if available) for your event. This might be for door, lighting, selling merch etc.
Payment and confirmation of your booking
Sometimes we ask for a deposit or bond in order to secure your booking. Once you have submitted the booking form, we will email you with confirmation of the date and any payment instructions.
Cancellations
If you cancel a week or more before the event, we will refund your deposit, if paid.
Access to the hall
A Hall Host (a volunteer) will let you into the Hall at the start time you specified on the booking form. Call Jan Borland on 0275 704 230; or Derek Borland on 021 654 339; or Francis Mills 021 0565 787 (prior to your booking) if you have not heard from a member of The Trust.
Booking Handling Fee of $10-$20 (from 1st April 2023) – will be charged on all bookings to help cover costs of administration of your hire.
Host Fee of $25 – all events are assigned a Host (hall volunteer) who will ensure you are familiar with all aspects of the hall pertaining to your event. Depending on the time involved, this is likely to incur a Host charge. Wedding Host Fee is $100.
Promotion Fee of $10 for commercial bookings and/or ticketed events to cover local advertising – all such events are responsible for their own advertising and ticketing. We lend a hand within our own local networks, via a newsletter and Facebook pages. A Promotion Fee is charged for this and it goes directly to PICI (Paekakariki Informed Community Inc), who do all the local advertising. In your booking confirmation letter you will find an email address for PICI, where you can send advertising. (We do not print fliers, but you can talk to your Host about couriering a hard copy poster for display in the village).
Conditions of Hire
- Any hire is at the discretion of the Trust, and conditions may be varied by the Trust.
- The Trust reserves the right to cancel bookings in exceptional circumstances should the hall be required for community use. We will provide a full refund.
- Hirers agree to be responsible financially for any damage to the hall or its equipment.
- Hirers are responsible for cleaning up after using the hall. The hall should be left in the condition it was in before the hire. All rubbish must be removed from the hall and the area around it. Lights, heaters and electrical appliances must be turned off.
- If the hall and surrounds are not left clean and tidy, the hirer will be charged an additional fee to pay for a cleaner.
- Noise levels should not be excessive. Events at the hall are subject to the Kāpiti Coast District Council’s noise control regulations. All hirers should respect the fact that the hall is located close to residential properties. Doors and shutters should be closed when loud music is being played. All noise must stop by 10.45pm.
- No sticking posters on the paint work. Blu tac acceptable, but definitely no pins please.
- Hirers agree to obtain a special alcohol licence if they wish to sell alcohol to persons attending any function or event in the hall.
- Absolutely no naked flames or candles in the hall.
- All hirers will complete the booking form – agreeing to these terms and conditions. Bookings must allow time for set up and clean up – before and after the event.
St Peter’s Village Hall – Information for Hirers (read before submitting a Booking Form please!)
Hall Calendar
Check availability for hire, and events on at St Peter’s Village Hall.
Check out EventFinda, tickets for some events are available through this site. Depending on the event there are often also cash door sales.
Gallery
Events
Events organised by the Paekakariki Community Trust include:
24-27 April 2024
Opening Night: Wednesday 24 April – 6pm – $10 entry. Drinks and nibbles provided. First viewing of art works.
Open at weekend:
Thursday 25th, Friday 26th, Saturday 27th – 10am-4pm.
$2 entry, children free.
The 2023 Film Festival will take place in June – every Sunday as follows.
June 4 – 4.30pm – Cousins (NZ 2016, PG)
June 11 – 3.00pm – Happy Feet (AUS/USA 2006 PG)
5.30pm – Pecking Order (NZ 2017, PG)
June 18 – 4.30pm – Everything Everywhere All at Once (USA 2022, R13)
June 25 – 3.00pm – Sing (USA 2016, PG)
5.30pm – The Commitments (IRE 2001, M)
Events happening at St Peter’s Village Hall:
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Markets
The Paekakariki Community Trust runs both the monthly Market Day, and the Paekakariki Christmas Fete.
Monthly Market Day
The monthly market in St Peter’s Village Hall runs from March through to November, on the first Saturday of every month, between 10am-2pm.
There are normally about 25 stalls, using both the hall and the deck, under a marquee.
Email enquiry: marketbookings.pct@
How to book a stall?
Please fill in the form below and click “Submit”.
Your booking will be confirmed by email and an invoice sent. There is often a waiting list.
The cost is $20 per market which needs to be paid in advance, following receipt of an invoice.
Cancellations
If you can’t make the market please send an email to: [email protected].
There will not be a refund if you don’t turn up.
Space
A trestle table is provided – 760mm x 1830mm.
All your goods need to be on the trestle or behind it – in other words, no stands to sit beside your table.
Set-Up
You can set up from 8.30am, to be ready by 9.45am.
Please scroll down to use the booking form.
Paekakariki Christmas Fete
The Paekakariki Christmas Fete is on the second Saturday of December – this is held both in St Peter’s Village Hall and the church grounds next door.
Date for 2023 – Saturday December 9.
The cost of a stall is $30.
The emphasis at the Fete is on Christmas crafts, gifts, and food.
There will be music, Father Christmas, and lots of fun.
How to book a stall?
Please fill in the form below and click “Submit”.
The receipt of your booking submission will be confirmed. To be accepted, your stall needs to fit the criteria of the Fete, which is Christmas related goods/food/gifts. We have a team that processes the applications. You will be notified of acceptance as soon as possible.
The cost is $30 per stall which will be invoiced late October, and needs to be paid by 20th November.
Cancellations
If you can’t make the Christmas Fete please send an email to: [email protected].
There will not be a refund if you don’t turn up.
Space
A trestle table is provided – 760mm x 1830mm.
All your goods need to be on the trestle or behind it – in other words, no stands to sit beside your table.
Inside stalls are almost fully booked (a waitlist will apply once full).
Outside stalls at the Christmas Fete are out on the footpath or in the church grounds. You will need your own table and gazebo. There will be loads of colour and fun outside – this is a great place to have a stall.
Set-Up – You can set up from 8.30am, to be ready by 9.45am.The
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Paekākāriki Community Trust update
The Paekākāriki Community Trust has had a busy year running St Peter’s Hall and fundraising for its upkeep. Sarah Te One fills us in on the details.
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In Praise of…Helpers!
St Peter’s Hall recently held their annual fundraising Book Fair. And it couldn’t be done without the help of all the volunteers! Ian Clark from the Paekākāriki Community Trust pays tribute to you all.
About
St Peter’s Village Hall is a much loved community venue. It was built in 1918 for the Anglican Church and has been used by the Church and the Community since then. In 2007 it was sold to the Paekākāriki Community and is now run by the Paekākāriki Community Trust.
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Hall Restoration
The Trust raises funds for the Hall’s renovation and upkeep.
Since 2012 major restoration work has been done, including rewiring and installing a contemporary lighting, heating and cooling system. The toilets have been upgraded, the interior painted, and a new commercial-style kitchen has been installed.
The stage upgrade includes a Public Address system (incl Cordless Mics), a projector and screen, theatre lighting and red velvet curtains.
A large deck has been added that can accommodate a 6m x 3m Marquee which is now available for hire.
The Hall floor has been replaced with new Matai floorboards, using recycled weather boards from a house in Te Aroha and Nae Nae. This will ensure the Hall will be able to be enjoyed by the community for many years to come.
Landscaping has been completed by buildng steps on the south side of the property allowing easier access to the Bike Library, and connecting the property from Ames Street to the deck. Wifi has been installed.
Upgrades continue to occur as and when finances are available. Voluntary input from Village residents into the Hall is vital to ensure these upgrades.
Paekākāriki Community Trust
The Paekākāriki Community Trust was created in 2007 when the Anglican Church sold St Peter’s Hall to the community for $1.00.
The hall was in a dilapidated condition at the time, and has since been completely renovated, including a rebuilt south wall, repainting, new toilets, new kitchen, new floor, a deck on the eastern side and improved access on the south side. This has all been done with grants, fundraising and, importantly, with the labour of many many volunteers.
St Peter’s Hall today is a fantastic asset for the local community and is in constant use for all kinds of events and activities.
The Trust Deed sets out our objectives, and these guide everything we do. The objectives are:
- To refurbish and maintain St Peter’s Hall at Paekākāriki and to manage it as a community centre and resource for the whole community
- To establish any new facility which enhances the social wellbeing of the community as a whole
- To encourage the economic and social sustainability of Paekākāriki to help ensure that local services are retained for the benefit of present and future generations
- To increase employment opportunities for Paekākāriki residents in the Paekākāriki area
- To assist cultural, not for profit, heritage and community services in Paekākāriki
- To undertake activities that are conducive to the attainment of the above objectives and anything else that will advance any of these aims
- To develop partnerships with other organisations and agencies that will help the Trust achieve its objectives
Trustees are elected annually at the AGM. We encourage new people to put themselves forward for election. And we welcome volunteers throughout the year to help with our regular fundraising events – the Art Show, Book Fair and Film Festival.
Ian Clark, Chair – Paekākāriki Community Trust.