THE Brightwells Gostrey Centre is offering an array of “goodies” from tea cups to a piano in exchange for donations, ahead of its long-awaited move to the refurbished Memorial Hall.

Lucinda Fleming, chairman of the day centre’s board of trustees, said: “Brightwells Gostrey Centre is finally moving to the Memorial Hall and has lots of goodies to offer in return for donations, from new cups and saucers to varieties of chairs, from cutlery and crockery to excellent Christmas decorations and even a piano/organ and a dance floor.”

The items will be up for grabs on Wednesday, August 22, from 10am to 3pm at the Brightwells Gostrey Centre, Brighwells Road, off East Street.

Farnham’s new £3.27 million health and wellbeing centre at the newly-refurbished Memorial Hall is expected to open in “mid to late August”, according to Waverley Borough Council who are responsible for maintaining the building.

The main construction phase is now complete, having begun in September 2016, and all that remains is to install the hall’s lighting and finish decorating its interior.

Once complete, the revamped hall - built by Farnham United Breweries in 1921 in memory of its five employees who lost their lives during the First World War - will provide a new home for the Brightwells Gostrey Centre for older people and Waverley Training Services, as well as incorporating its previous uses.

The hall now boasts a bright and airy, glass-roofed atrium, providing a striking entrance and reception area, and connecting the old part of the building to the new. On one side of the atrium is a new kitchen and cafe, from where Waverley’s Meals on Wheels service will operate, and opposite is the main hall. This still boasts a sprung dance-floor and stage, but its suspended ceiling has now been removed to reveal the building’s original 1920s wooden beams. Bi-fold doors also run down the length of the hall to create a flexible space.

The health and well-being centre, which will be occupied by the Gostrey Centre daily from 9am to 4pm, is confined to the ground floor, boasting treatment rooms, assisted bathing and even a hairdressing salon.

The upper floor offers numerous rentable activity rooms and a balcony overlooking the Memorial Ground, while the hall’s basement has also been dug out and expanded to accommodate Waverley Training Services’ classrooms.