Interested in a booking?
The booking number is 07714998127. If there is no reply, please leave a text, stating your requirements and your email address if you have one and we shall get back shortly after.
Alternatively, send an email to: info@snodlandcommunitycentre.org
Who are we?
Snodland Community Association is a charitable organisation, set up in 1981, with the intention of providing the expanding town of Snodland with its own community centre.
Fundraising for the community centre had been begun by a hardworking group of volunteers even before SCA was created, and it was not until 4th July 1987 that the first phase of the building was completed with a special Carnival being held to celebrate. Click here for a brief history of Snodland Community Centre
As a charity, Snodland Community Association ensures that all of its profits are ploughed back into the community centre.
Our aim
is to provide a top class venue for community events, whether they be leisure, sporting or educational, at a very competitive price.
We offer…
- Panoramic views of the North Downs
- A large community hall, which can comfortably seat over 200 and which is equipped with air conditioning.
- A recently modernised and expanded licensed bar, kitchen and stage, which makes it an ideal venue for a wedding or a theatrical production.
- Facilities for sports such as badminton and shortmat bowls.
- A recently built function suite, known as the Paddlesworth Rooms. Ideal for smaller gatherings of up to about 100, it has air conditioning and it served by its own bar and small kitchen. It divides into two distinct areas – a carpeted, fully furnished lounge leading onto a patio facing the North Downs, and an open space with wood effect flooring, ideal for meetings, conferences, dancing, discos or wedding breakfasts.
- Two sets of good quality toilet facilities, including disabled toilets, which serve either the main hall or the Paddlesworth Rooms.
- A set of changing rooms with showers and toilets, which provide access to events on the field and the Centre.
- A small lounge or meeting room— known as the Downsview Lounge it isideal for a small gathering up to around 20 and is inexpensive to hire.
- A fully equipped boxing club and gym—opened in September 2009. See our club page for details.
Wonderful views of the North Downs from Snodland Community Centre
The vision completed at last!
After it was opened in 1987, Snodland Community Association had always planned to expand the community centre, so that it could better meet the needs of an expanding town. Taking note of users’ comments and working in close liaison with the Town Council, the vision which has taken over thirty years to realise took shape during 2013.
Celebrating the National Lottery award
The funding for the project was gradually acquired, the main contributors being Berkeley Homes, Kent County Council, Snodland Partnership, Snodland Community Association, Snodland Town Council and Malling Lions.
During August 2013 the final piece of the jigsaw was put in place when the National Lottery informed us that it was willing to provide funding of £50,000, which meant that the building of the extension could begin in January 2014. The extension, named the Paddlesworth Rooms and the new changing rooms were finally opened in September 2014.
Turning the first sod (January 2014)
Despite very wet weather during the winter and a delay of several months, the newly extended community centre was formally opened on 5th September 2014. This was followed by an open day the next day when members of the public were invited to tour the new facility. See the early progress of this building project by clicking on building the extension.