Our hall is used by a wide variety of groups. Building a new hall, at a cost of almost £350,000 in 2009, we were determined that the new facility would be available to community groups for meetings, functions, staff training, conferences, and daily use. It was named St Augustine’s Community Hall, for that is what it is.
We consider that Hall users are part of the St Augustine’s family, as we work together to build a better community in the centre of Dumbarton.
We enjoy conference facilities in a three-roomed facility, plus office, and can provide access to a large TV screen and Wi-Fi internet connection.
There is a kitchen that can cater for large and small groups alike.
Most day of the week our hall rooms seem to be buzzing with people and groups – and it’s wonderful for us to be able to provide the community with good facilities in which they can meet, chat and support each other.
Food for Thought is in charge of running the Community Soup Lunch on Wednesdays, and on Fridays St Augustine’s hosts a busy Soup Kitchen Lunch from 12 noon until 2pm. Everyone is welcome and can give a donation if they wish.
Saturday Coffee Mornings are always there come rain or shine! (10am – 12 noon)
There are many groups who pay us a fair rent and provide a wonderful service to the young and old of Dumbarton and West Dunbartonshire. Community Voice, a choir for carers and sufferers of dementia, makes a joyful and musical sound every fortnight!
The Diocese and the Province of the SEC have used our premises for training sessions and committee meetings. Dumbarton Churches Together also use our hall for their meetings. The Community Councils use our facilities too.
Organisations are catching on to the fact that we provide excellent conference facilities, and there have been various enquiries about that. 
We still seem to have some space, but we are fast filling up to capacity!
We are working towards a St Augustine’s family situation where we feel we share in each other’s work and concerns, unafraid to promote the fact that there is a spiritual element to this family which prays for it all and in fact upholds the whole operation in prayer.
Forming strong links and friendships with our Hall users is vital, and may actually help us to invite some of our non-church family to services and other congregational events. This is Service. It’s also Mission!
