The Gill Nethercott Centre

23/08/2026

The Gill Nethercott Centre is looking for your help to shape what types of activities you'd like to see at the Centre in the future.

While being a well used and loved hub for community use, we do have gaps in our existing schedules and in what activities or services that could be offered to the town.

We have now launched a short survey to collect as many views as possible about what we do now and what we could do moving forward. We're particularly keen to hear from people who don't currently use the Centre, so we can learn why and what we can do to make it even more appealing and accessible.

The survey is available online below, through QR codes on posters that will be going up around the town and there are paper copies available in the Centre's Foyer if you would prefer.

Thank you for your help

19/08/2026

Heads up 👆

The Basingstoke Voluntary Action Volunteer Hub is back!

Returning to Whitchurch on Wednesday 9th September, they will be set up in the Foyer of the Gill Nethercott Centre from 10am till 1.30pm.

If you, or anyone you know, is interested in volunteering with local organisations, come along for a chat and find out how to get started

29/06/2026

10/06/2026

FREE FURNITURE !!

Need an Office chair and / or a filing cabinet ?

please call or email the GNC to arrange viewings / collection.

[email protected]
OR
Call 01256 896270

09/06/2026

Spaces still available!

08/06/2026

EDIT : THIS HAS NOW BEEN REMOVED

NEWS FLASH. Help needed please!

"If anyone owns, or knows who owns, the gold mini that has been parked behind the Gill Nethercott Centre for the past three weeks, please can they arrange to have it moved in the next few days. We will be contacting the Police and Council later this week to report it as having been abandoned.

The spaces behind the Centre are for the use of Centre and Library staff and hirers, and are not part of the main public car park. We would really appreciate them being kept clear as they are in regular use throughout the week."

Many thanks for your assistance.

05/06/2026

Shick-Shack Day in Hampshire is the traditional name for Oak Apple Day, which is celebrated annually on 29th May to mark King Charles II's birthday and his restoration to the the throne (after hiding in an oak tree during the Civil War). This old celebration is still enacted in parts of Hampshire and it's great to see how our town's youngsters helped to keep this old tradition alive.

If you would like to admire the work of the children and learn a little more about this 'olde' tradition, please pop into the Gill Nethercott Centre where the work is on display for a further week.... If you call in on Friday morning there's also the opportunity to visit the Friday market and enjoy a cuppa and a slice of cake. You might also like to pick up a walk leaflet and go in search of our local Oaks.

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Thank you to the After school Club for their magnificent Oak Tree, oak leaves and acorn people and thank you to Whitchurch in Bloom for creating the display in the Town Hall window and to our Assistant Town Clerk for 'encouraging' the ladies with a fabulous apple cake.

Thank you again to the Montessori Nursery children for their continued enthusiasm, captured on their display board and the wonderfully coloured acorns carefully arranged on their oak tree.
Did you know, that the original King Charles II Oak became a massive tourist attraction even during the king's lifetime, but souvenir hunters fatally damaged it by chipping off pieces of wood and branches. The tree you can visit today is an 18th century descendent of the original and is known as 'Son of Royal Oak'.

Whitchurch Walkers are Welcome footpath team celebrated with an away day to nearby Goodworth Clatford to admire the village's ancient oak still thriving in the riverside meadow and, following a short walk criss crossing the chalk stream, they finished up at the Royal Oak Goodworth Clatford for lunch... a very pleasant way to start planning this year's footpath cutting.

How did you celebrate 'Shick Shack' - Oak Apple Day?

27/05/2026

More defibrillator training down at the GNC

06/05/2026

The BVA ( Basingstoke Volunteer Action ) Volunteer Hub is visiting Whitchurch on Friday 8th May, setting up at the Friday Market in the Gill Nethercott Centre.

If you, or anyone you know, is interested in volunteering with local organisations, come along for a chat and find out how to get started"