village halls week 2023

Monday 23rd January - Sunday 29th January 2023

Village Hall Week Events

There are 49 village hall events planned for village hall week 2023. Thank you to all the event organisers for arranging these. If you attend an event you can claim a profile badge for you geocaching account.

See the Bookmark list for links to the event pages.

Bookmark list

Profile Badges

Geocache Profile Badges for Village Halls Week

You can choose between 3 profile badges depending on your finds during the week.

Profile badge 1 - Geocache found

Profile badge 2 - Event attended

Profile badge 3 - Co's that have hosted an event or published a cache during Village Hall week.

If you find a VHS Cache or attend an event 23rd - 29th January 2023 and wish to add the badge to your profile

please follow these instructions.

Log onto www.geocaching.com (via the website not an app)
Click your name or avatar at the top of the page
Click 'Your public profile' on the right of the page (above your number of finds)
Click Edit your profile on the old page format or the settings cog on the new page format
Scroll to 'about'
Copy the following html link into the box for your preferred profile badge

Profile Badge 1 - Geocache Found

Profile Badge 2 Event Attended

Profile Badge 3 Geocache placed or event hosted

Save changes
View your profile

Selfie challenge 2023

Selfie Challenge 2023

The selfie challenge was introduced in lockdown as we could not go caching to physical caches. The challenge was so popular it has continued annually.

To claim the badge

Visit your local village hall (it doesn’t matter if there is no cache there yet, if you have already found it or you own the cache)

Take a selfie at the hall (if you do not want to include your face a thumbs up selfie is fine)

The photo must be a new photo and not used in previous selfie challenges

Post your photo on the Village Hall Series - Geocaching Facebook page using the dedicated thread. Alternatively on Instagram tag @villagehallseries

In your post include -

Your geocaching name
The name of the Village Hall
Either the GC number, VH number or ‘No Geocache here yet’
The hashtag #villagehallselfie

If you do not access to social media then email your selfie or thumbs up photo and the information listed above to villagehallseries@gmail.com

The hall can be a Village hall, Parish hall, Community Centre, Reading room, Church hall etc. As long as it is a local hall for the community to use for groups and activities.

To add the badge to your profile please follow these instructions.

Log onto www.geocaching.com
Click your name or avatar at the top of the page
Click 'Your public profile' (on the left on the new profile or on the right on the old profile page)
Click on the settings cog
Scroll to 'about'
Copy the following link into the box and save