Village Hall new page

2026 - Time for a new approach

After seeing some server log entries looking for the pre=application for the Mission Hut redevelopment (which I had removed from the server and I can't seem to find it on BDC), and reviewing some of the conmmunications with Becky Poynter regarding BWV.uk, I decided to do some more re-writing.

My attempts at getting the Village Hall website to be anything that I would be proud to be associated with were given-up. Plus, the fate of the Village Hall in general is now in question. It seems that the main reason for the VH website is to allow for the application of grants. Well, the fact that the Village Hall have not seen fit to get the lease in place with the Parish Council I am starting to have my doubts that they ever will.

I am re-writing the pages with the same file name so that links from other pages will still work. I don't want these links to the old pages to be accessable from other pages on the website but I don't mind if they are found by search or AI.

23 May 2026 - Looking into wordpress.com in more depth I came across a series of threads on Matt Mullenweg - CEO of wordpress.com.

I was not aware that Matt Mullenweg was so reviled by the programming community and that there was the story behind wordpress.com, WP Engine and the original Wordpress. The full story can be found on the Wikipedia page, or at least what the contributors to the page have said. The boycotting and blocking of WP Engine by wordpress.org.

19 June 2026 - Revised the page that was on the Parish Council server. The page was too "promotional" and served the Hall more than it did the Parih Council.

Changed the main picture and took out the menu options about booking and the 2024 budget speech from Jeremy Hunt.

If the Google search for Belchamp Walter Village Hall is made and the user clicks on the Parish Council page it looks like the PC are endorsing the VH. While there are issues related to the lease I don't think that this ia appropriate.

25 June 2025 - There have been some changes to the VH website - the rolling blog block (can't rememnber waht Wordpress call it but I know I was not impressed when I looked at it!) - the posters for the Michael Aves talk and the Turkish food truck have been posted.