Active Wesley Hall Information

Wesley Hall has been serving the communities of Spinney Hills and Highfields since 1903. The community centre is situated in the old Wesley Hall Methodist Church Sunday School buildings. Interestingly, the number of Sunday School students registered and using the buildings in 1903 are stated in the records as being 723. The number of people who are in contact with us every year is generally around 750, unless we have a Polling Station for an election, in which case around 2,500 people can come in to vote in one day! Why is Wesley Hall the most frequented Poling Station in Leicester? It is because so many of the local residents have used it in so many different ways. We have 'return attendees' when they bring their children to our Pre School and remind us that they too used to attend the Pre School 20 years before. Or, volunteers will tell us they used to come to our playschemes. We have many visitors who recall attending Wesley Hall for an event or celebration, these people sometimes return to us as professionals working in other areas of the city. When we run Family Fun Days we have very high attendances, over 600 at the last one. Our Centennial in 2002 attracted the magic 720 visitors. What is the attraction? The building consists of a large Main Hall that can accommodate 100 people seated and 200 standing. We have a large Pre School with an adjoining playground for the children and a second hall under the church that we are able to use during out of church hours. We have a beautiful Function Room that boasts enormous Art Nouveau bow, stained glass windows. These fantastic creations of generosity and light flood the room with Macintosh style roses and countless pieces of lead. The windows overlook the tightly knit terraces of our neighbourhoods and grace the locality with a late Victorian grandeur demonstrative of the rapidly expanding city of its time. The windows were refurbished, along with the Front Faade, in 2009 when everything rotten or decayed was taken back to its original frame and repaired or ...