Community connections

Hart Lottery is a weekly lottery that raises money for good causes in Hart.

Lottery tickets are £1 each, with 60p going to local good causes. 

When you buy a ticket, you can choose a specific good cause to benefit. In this case, 50p goes to that cause and 10p goes to the Hart Central Fund. Money from this fund is distributed annually among the Hart Chairman's charities for that year. You can also choose the central fund as your good cause.

Each ticket has a 1 in 50 chance of winning a prize every week. This includes the £25,000 jackpot prize if all six numbers are matched, as well as various other cash prizes.

• Find out how the Lottery works
• Play the lottery
• View the Hart Lottery privacy notice
• Hart Lottery applications policy for good causes

A wide range of community, leisure and social activities are happening in Hart.

To find information about what’s happening in your community you could:

• search the Here for Hart Directory: Try categories such as Keep Active, Children, Young People and Families, or Learning to find a wide range of local leisure activities.
• look for local exercise classes on Hampshire Activity Finder: There is a range of classes, from yoga and tai chi to table tennis and seated pilates. A lot of these classes are held in community venues near you.
• go to the websites of Everyone Active Hart leisure centre in Fleet and Everyone Active Frogmore leisure centre in Yateley.
• find a guided walk or other countryside activity on our countryside pages.
• check what’s on at the libraries in Fleet and Yateley including children’s activities and adult learning.

You may find some of the links on this page useful, but please note Hart District Council is not responsible for these services.

Hampshire County Council is responsible for:

• births, deaths and ceremonies
• libraries
• recycling centres
• schools, education and learning
• transport and roads
• issuing bus passes. Find out more information on how to apply at www.hants.gov.uk/transport/publictransport/buspasses

You can use the NHS website to search for local health services, including, dentists, pharmacies and hospitals.

When someone has died, you will have lots of things to do, at a time when you probably least feel like doing them. One of these is letting government departments know about the death.

You can use the Tell Us Once service to report a death to most government organisations in one go. This means you don't have to tell departments individually. This a free service. You don't have to use Tell Us Once but it can be very helpful.

Contact the Government's Tell Us Once service

Cemeteries and closed churchyards

We don't operate any open cemeteries or graveyards in Hart, but some of our parishes and town councils do.

Please contact your parish or town council for more information.

There are large cemeteries at Basingstoke and Aldershot with cremation facilities.

We look after four closed churchyards in the district. These are:

• Saint Peter’s, Yateley
• Saint Mary’s, Ewshot,
• Saint Mary’s, Eversley
• All Saints, Crondall

You won't be able to arrange a burial in one of these churchyards.

Our closed churchyards protocol gives more information about how we maintain them.

Public Health Act Funerals

In the absence of anyone available to take responsibility for the funeral, under Section 46 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, the Council will arrange the funeral.

These funerals are assessed for eligibility on a case by case basis. For more information, please contact our Environmental Health team on 01252 774421 or eh@hart.gov.uk.

You can also view the list of Section 46 Public Health Funerals arranged by Hart.

Exhuming human remains

The process of moving a person's remains from a grave is called an 'exhumation'. 

You may need to exhume human remains to:

• move a body from the original grave site to a new grave
• deepen an existing grave for a further burial
• send them for cremation

You need a licence to remove human remains from the ground. You’ll need to get the signature of any close relatives, the owner of the grave plot and the burial authority.

An Environmental Health officer must be present at the exhumation. The exhumation can't go ahead if the conditions of the licence are not met, or there are public health or decency concerns.

Apply to exhume human remains