Victoria Hall Harrow

Who we are

The Victoria Hall Harrow charity started in 1888, with the aim of building a high quality venue for the people of Harrow to come together and to build community. Since then our venue Victoria Hall has been rebuilt twice, the most recently it reopened to the public in Summer 2021. We also created a new charity some years back (a CIO), transferring the assets of the old charity over. For this reason our Charity Commission listing below is not representative of our current financial position and our assets. 

For around 140 years Victoria Hall has provided space for rent to local residents and groups. It has been used for every possible purpose - parties, events, activities, conferences and much more. 

More recently the trustee board have embarked on a renewed strategy process, and we are now relaunching the charity as a partnership-first community centre, that identifies local needs and uses our assets to best meet those needs, working with a wide range of partners to serve the local diverse communities. 

In June 2024 we agreed our new Vision and Mission. We are still now working through the overall draft of our strategy, which we will be happy to share with you as soon as it is ready in 1st draft form. 

Our Vision

A connected and inclusive Harrow, where people and communities thrive.

Our Mission

We facilitate connections, providing space and support for activities and services to identify and meet the needs of Harrow’s diverse communities. 

We collaborate with local residents, groups and organisations, using a partnership-first approach.

Our culture and values

This is an entirely new chapter in our history, and so much of this is really yet to be decided. We can promise you that you will be valued and supported to succeed. We hope that you will work with us such that we continue to develop together. As part of your and our work over the first year of this post, we would very much like to formalise some organisational values, which we can then share publicly, and use to all hold ourselves to account. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We are strong believers in diversity, equity and inclusion. We have much development work to do in this area over the coming years, so we want to recruit a CEO that understands why this is important, and can work with us effectively on it. 

We hope for now that our carefully constructed recruitment process goes some way to showing that we value you and what you can bring to our work and our community.