The Heart of Clunes since 1911
Hire the Hall
The Clunes Coronation Hall and its grounds are available for community events, private functions, workshops, and performances. All bookings are managed by our volunteer committee via Vennu, an easy-to-use online booking platform that allows you to check availability, view hire rates, and secure your booking in just a few clicks.
Fundraising Events
Thursday Night Fever is a fortnightly Dancing in the Dark social dance night at the Clunes Coronation Hall. It's a relaxed, friendly evening open to everyone — come along, enjoy some good music, and see what the night brings.
All proceeds for this event go to the Hall Maintenance Projects.
Weekly Classes
The Clunes Coronation Hall is always buzzing with activity! From regular yoga, tai chi, and exercise classes to music and singing there is something at the hall here for every member of the community.
Family Friendly Nights
Fresh tacos made with organic, local meats — served up at the Clunes Coronation Hall every third Saturday of the month. Come hungry. BYO drinks.
3rd Saturday of the Month
A Brief History of Clunes Coronation Hall
Before European settlement, the Widjabal people of the Bundjalung nation had occupied this country for centuries. The land was clothed in subtropical rainforest — part of the vast expanse known as the Big Scrub, one of the largest lowland rainforests in Australia.
The Robertson Land Act of 1861 opened Crown land for selection, and the first settler took up land in Clunes in 1880. The surrounding Big Scrub was cleared and the community turned to dairying. Within a decade, co-operative butter factories had been established to process the cream — and it was at a meeting in the Clunes Hall in 1892 that NORCO was initiated.
By the late 1880s the community had built its first timber hall. That building was replaced in 1911, opened on Coronation Day, 22 June, by the President of Byron Shire Council. The hall's galvanised iron roof rises to a steep pitch, with rotating ventilation vents along the ridge — the original solution to the Northern Rivers heat. Early Anglican and Presbyterian services were both held here.
Dairying remained the mainstay of the district until the 1960s, giving way to cattle grazing and then macadamia farming. The hall has stood through all of it — more than a century of the district's life.