Community Services

Great Massingham offers key services and contacts, supporting both the village residents and neighbouring communities. All numbers carry the STD code 01485 if calling from outside the area.


The Village Hall and Bar

The Village Hall on Station Road is at the heart of the community. Please see the separate pages of Village Hall – Home and Village Hall – History on this website for more information.

The hall is available for private hire – Call 520588 for Hall, Bar and Debs Lambert or email deborahgmvh@gmail.com


Sports Clubs at the Village Hall

The village hall is also the hub for various sports clubs including tennis, bowling, football, snooker, billiards, and netball.

All welcome to join or support – see separate pages for each sport/club.


 The Community Car Service

The Community Car Service helps anyone without access to personal transportation to attend doctor, hospital or dental appointments, visit a relative, go to the shops, care centre or social club etc.  To book a trip, call the community service on 01485 520823 at any time to speak to someone or to leave a message.  Once the trip is over, passengers pay the volunteer driver approx. 45p per mile.

For further information see the separate page on this site and www.massinghamcommunitycars.co.uk

We offer a friendly and reliable door to door car service, seven days a week for anyone without personal transport.

Covid-19 (Coronavirus) latest information (30.9.21)

There are checks to be made via questions the scheme’s coordinators will ask of passengers and each driver before a trip is accepted. Drivers are expected to ask the passenger the same questions again before allowing him/her into the car. Drivers have been emailed a newsletter which explains the changes and what’s expected of them, and the coordinators can also explain these to them. 

If you would like to see the risk assessment and Appendix A, please request a copy from the coordinators.

Passengers book door to door trips by calling  01485 520 823

Bookings may be made weeks in advance but please try to give at least two working days notice.

Please see “Book a trip” and “How we work” on the Scheme’s website.

The scheme is supported by volunteer drivers who use their own cars.

The charge is 45p per mile from the driver’s home and the full round trip back to the driver’s home. We do our best to ensure the driver lives as close as possible to the passenger. Once a driver is arranged the office staff can give an estimate of the cost.

For much more information please see:

https://massinghamcommunitycars.co.uk/


 The Village Stores & Post Office

Mark, Kerry and the staff welcome you to your local village store and post office.  The shop is open 7 days a week – Monday to Saturday from 7 am to 7pm and from 9am to 7pm on Sundays.  Post office hours are – 9 am to 5.30 pm Monday to Friday & 9 am to 1 pm on Saturdays. No Post Office on Sundays.

The Village store is well stocked for all occasions with items such as chilled produce, lunch to go including award winning Bray’s Cottage pork pies and sausage rolls, chilled wine and beer, lottery, Newspapers, Fresh rolls, Post Office, Pay Station for bill payment, Dry cleaning service, winter fuel and much much more……..

Please keep an eye on our Facebook and Instagram pages for latest news or visit our website www.massinghamstores.co.uk

 What else is on offer? ………   

A dry cleaning service available twice a week plus photocopying  and A home delivery service every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday  each week, at present. Call  520272 

The Post Office offers a full postal service along with insurances, foreign currencies, cash-back with no purchase, cheque & cash direct to your bank account.

Telephone:- 01485 520 272 

Email:- info@massinghamstores.co.uk or info@thecartshedtearoom.co.uk

Facebook:- Massinghamstores postoffice or The Cartshed Tearoom

In autumn 2020, we opened our Cartshed Tearoom which is situated behind the Village Store. You can either eat in or outside in one of our two seating areas or you can have a takeaway.  Read on…..

The Cartshed Tearoom

Besides seating both inside and out we have a good menu. We ask that you come to the Tearoom entrance to place your order and we will take care of everything from there.

Our normal opening hours are from 9 am to 4 pm for 7 days a week.

We encourage you to visit our website which shows our menus, a booking system and other useful information.

The website is www.thecartshedtearoom.co.uk – see screenshot above.

 

We can be telephoned on 01485 520272 or contacted on Facebook messenger, Instagram or twitter.

 


The Dabbling Duck

A picturesque countryside pub named after The Wind in the Willows.  A meeting point for the local community, The Dabbling Duck offers a fantastic British menu and real ales favoured by CAMRA Real Ale Campaign.

The quirky dining rooms, at The Dabbling Duck come complete with walls full of library books, stripped floorboards and sash windows that create a cosy ambience. There is also a PIZZA barn and outside areas, front and rear.

The Dabbling Duck has 6 guest bedrooms in the main building,  all are tastefully decorated and furnished to a high specification,  In June 2015, further bedrooms were added at the rear of the property. In 2022 the number of rooms available was further increased. 

 

 

  Please see the Dabbling Duck website for any updates. Also, see latest info and menus on Instagram & Facebook


The Mallard
Dabbling Duck
Community Cars
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Massingham Village Hall & Club
Minuteman Press
Karl Andrews