Mary Esther Hollway Memorial Trust
Stanhoe’s Reading Room was set up in the late 1800s “to provide a village reading room and club for the use and mental improvement of the male inhabitants”.
It is administered by a charity, the Mary Esther Hollway Memorial Reading Room, generally known in the village as the MEHM Trust.
As of February 2012 the trustees are (chair) (tel 518 324), Yvonne Rawlins (secretary), Charles Butcher, Chris Drysdale, Wendy Eckersley and Anne Jackson.

MEHM trustees, June 2011 (l-r): Mark Roche,
Yvonne Rawlins, Wendy Eckersley, Nigel Fuller,
Sue Atkins, Chris Drysdale, Charles Butcher
Links
- Reading Room news — for more about what the trustees are currently doing to improve the Reading Room.
- General information about the Reading Room — location, bookings and so on.