{"id":9,"date":"2012-02-14T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:57:27","slug":"about-hag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Arts Group (HAG) was established\u00a0in the village of Hartley Wintney in 1975. Our membership list\u00a0has been growing steadily, with most members living in and around the Hartley Wintney area. Though we also have members in Wales, France, Australia and New Zealand!<\/p>\n<p>In November of 2010 the old Hartley Arts Group unincorporated\u00a0association dissolved and became Hartley Arts Group, a private charitable company,\u00a0Company No. 7214087\u00a0and Charity No. 1136586.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do we do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HAG exists to provide something for amateur dramatists and musicians to get their teeth into.\u00a0But that doesn&#8217;t just include acting and musical performance.\u00a0HAG&#8217;s members encompass a variety of skills across the board to be able to produce high-quality and rewarding amateur productions, including directing, acting, singing, stage-managing, catering, carpentry, publicity, lighting, sound, painting, cleaning and anything else needed to put on a good performance.<\/p>\n<p>However, the overriding theme of it all is FUN!\u00a0 Many people come along to be part of the social atmosphere of HAG &#8211; to get away from the everyday things they do at home and join in with the activities. Alternatively, some just prefer to come and see our productions. You don&#8217;t need to be able to sing &#8211; or dance &#8211; or act &#8211; or wield a paintbrush! Living close enough to come to rehearsals should do it!<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:contactus@hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\">contactus@hartleyartsgroup.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our address is: Hartley Arts Group, Victoria Halls, West Green Road, Hartley Wintney, Hook, Hampshire RG27 8RQ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Committee: <\/strong>2025-26 (updated 9\/9\/25)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair<\/strong> <strong>Person:<\/strong> Helen Lewis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary<\/strong>: Jamie Pouw<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer<\/strong>: Bill Hansell<\/p>\n<p><strong>Membership Secretary<\/strong>: Helen Robson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee Members<\/strong>: Ailsa Prickett, Sarah Lee, Jake Featherstone, Craig Wooldridge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download our:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/HAGCo-Rules-08032017.pdf\">Company Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Company Articles\" href=\"http:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/HAGCo-Articles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Company Articles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Audition &amp; Director Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SelectionDirectorAuditionPolicy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Audition and Director Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/HAG-Privacy-policy-March-2024.pdf\">Privacy Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAG-Child-Protection-Policy-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Child Protection Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAG-Equal-Opportunities-Policy-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equal Opportunities Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Arts Group (HAG) was established\u00a0in the village of Hartley Wintney in 1975. Our membership list\u00a0has been growing steadily, with most members living in and around the Hartley Wintney area. Though we also have members in Wales, France, Australia and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/?page_id=9\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartleyartsgroup.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}