Our Heath Barn

07/09/2026

Morning all!

I know we have a lovely group of culture vultures within this group and also a whole host of music lovers. I'd like to introduce you to Boxmoor talent, Ella & Nate. You're in for a treat!

I first met Ella and Nate when they attempted to attend our first Heath Barn rally last year (cancelled due to rain), they have continued to support the Heath Barn cause with Ella also featuring in our promotional video.

Both are professional musicians, Nate is a violinist and the leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra and Ella is a cellist and member of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

An event not to be missed, book your tickets now ❤️

05/09/2026

27/08/2026

I'll be there rain or shine! Tomorrow 4.30pm meet at The Old Barn, Westbrook Hay x

27/08/2026

Looking forward to Art in The Nave this weekend at St Marys church in the Old town...always a wealth of talent to be found and quality original artworks 🥰 Brilliantly organised by our Boxmoor favourite Brian Doran ❤️

25/08/2026

Morning All,

Just a reminder that if you see any anti social behaviour at the barn to call 999 and do not approach.

The huge 'For Sale' sign seems to have created some unwanted attention lately and as the unofficial guardians, collectively we can help look after it until its back (hopefully) in good hands.

Thank you x

14/08/2026

Morning Lovely people!

So while we're been hiding ourselves away to keep cool, the kiddies and hard working volunteer adults of Boxmoor Playhouse have been enthusiastically working their little acting socks off- singing, dancing - 9am-4pm rehearsals every day this week in the heat towards their one off performance of the musical production of The Addams Family Jnr.

It is TOMORROW at 2.30pm at The Boxmoor Playhouse and unbelievably there are still tickets left.

For those of you familiar with Boxmoor Playhouse productions, you know they never fail to disappoint. The annual summer school continues to blow we away year on year in the quality and the talent of our local little people.
(Slightly biased and unashamedly proud that my eldest is taking on the lead of Gomez.) I couldn't me more excited for him and the rest of the cast but it would be amazing to have a full house.

This is your one chance - don't miss out!

Got a free hour tomorrow at 2.30pm, please book you tickets here:

Tickets are now available for Adams Family at The Boxmoor Playhouse, Hemel Hempstead on Saturday 15th August 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

12/08/2026

Hi everyone!

Please, please can everyone check their Junk emails for one for me from SUNDAY!

I have a new email address which is meant to have helped things but has lead to questioning if it is in fact Wix (the platform I use for my email marketing/ website) that is creating a delivery issue!

We're fast approaching a crucial time where we need to make sure emails are landing in your inbox as there will be a Call to Action very, very soon.

An email was sent out Sunday afternoon from me...comment below if it ended up in your Junk or inbox! 😁

Remember you can sign up to receive our newsletters via our website pop up www.ourheathbarn.org 🙏

08/08/2026

I really need to work on my umming 😅 I'm so unaware I'm doing it until I watch back to check the quality! Anyway! Just a quick update from me regarding the status of things! Hope you're all keeping well and enjoying the summer😎

31/07/2026

Evening folks and Happy Friday!

I realise we've been a little quiet of late. Things are ticking along nicely and there's a lot of work going on still behind the scenes.

As a reminder, the barn is on the open market until 4th september and we're hoping there will be little to no interest 🤞 Decision will be made at panel (amongst herts county council councillors) on the 1st October. We've been asked to consider including a few things to bolster our business plan which we're working on.

In other news, we've now submitted our application to Co-operatives UK to set up as a Charitable Community Benefit Society (becoming Our Heath Barn Limited) and we're hoping this can be registered with the Financial Conduct Authority fairly swiftly.

The next stage is to get the highly anticipated Community Share offer up and running and to convert all those lovely pledges to real money but we would love a designer to help create a quality prospectus to resemble something like this one from Stretford Public Hall (see link). We have been matched with Stretford Public Hall as our business peer mentors and couldn't be happier. Despite them being located in Manchester, we're aligned as a CCBS, our offering, values and the desire to steward a much loved heritage asset. We're looking for a designer who can create something high quality and beautifully designed like theirs and that will translate well both digitally and in print. We'll provide the copy and content.

https://stretfordpublichall.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Stretford-Public-Hall-Share-Offer.pdf

If you feel you can help, (we can allocate some funds for a fee) please email me [email protected].

Ooh thats a new thing too- I have a new email address 🥳in the hope that emails will end up in inboxes ready for our community share offer launch in September, so please add to your contacts!

Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!

Lisa and the team x