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How to attract, engage and retain committee members for your community venue

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FeaturedHow to attract, engage and retain committee members for your community venue

Watch this honest and rich fireside conversation with Dunsborough and Districts Progress Association's Jacquie Happ and Save Perth Hills' Jeremy Hurst as they tackle the hot topic of recruiting and retaining committee members. You'll be sure to find gold in their combined experience, including tips on how to attract younger committee members, the importance of learning your team's communication styles and how to deal with disagreements!

How to attract, engage and retain committee members for your community venue

Watch this honest and rich fireside conversation with Dunsborough and Districts Progress Association's Jacquie Happ and Save Perth Hills' Jeremy Hurst as they tackle the hot topic of recruiting and retaining committee members. You'll be sure to find gold in their combined experience, including tips on how to attract younger committee members, the importance of learning your team's communication styles and how to deal with disagreements!

September 2022 #4: Placemaking for Community Venues

For our fourth Community Venues Learning Series for September, we unpacked the topic of Placemaking. We learnt why and how it can be significant for not only our communities but for our venues as well. Sharing their amazing knowledge, wisdom and experience on placemaking, Dean Cracknell from Town Team Movement and Mark Haynes from Future Common, leads us into deeper thinking on how we can implement placemaking into our communities.

August 2022 - Open Forum - Sharing and learning from fellow community venues

We had a very special session for our third instalment of the Community Venue Learning Series. In this webinar, we heard from Lucy-Mary from Aaiotanga Community Space and Kiran Patel from MoveSpace about initiatives that worked at their centres, and then opened it up to the participants to share their own insights. An inspiring and idea-filled watch!

July 2022 - Hacks for creating posters, social media & promoting things at your venue

In our second session of our Community Venue Learning Series, we talk about all things promotion and social media. From design tools and ideas, social media discover and engagement, to collaboration tools, we share practical ideas on how to promote your unique venue!

June 2022: How to activate your community venue

Our first community venue learning webinar and we chat all things Activation! We share the top booking trends that we see across 100's of venues and how you can use these insights to activate your venues. We also hear heaps of brilliant and new ideas from venues across NZ and Australia on the call.

The community venue activation framework

An easy method to help you identify initiatives that will help you activate your venue and create opportunities that are unique for the communities that you serve.

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Each month we host a free webinar for community topics to share skills, resources and learnings for topics you care about. Come network with fellow venue managers and get heaps of ideas and inspiration to help grow your venue.

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Free digital marketing course for community venues

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The ultimate guide for how to move to an online booking system

Packed full of resources like sample project plans, checklists and templates to help you understand what's involved and how to do it.

Guide to recruiting and retaining volunteers

Check out tips and tricks on how to attract, engage and look after these amazing people at your community venue!

10 Placemaking Ideas for Community Venues Resource-1

10 Practical Placemaking Ideas for community venues

Kickstart some collaborative and creative placemaking ideas in your community venue with 10 practical ideas and examples of other communities that have done them!

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The CoLab Series

Access recordings and other resources from our monthly community venue learning series

How to attract, engage and retain committee members for your community venue

September 2022 #4: Placemaking for Community Venues

August 2022 - Open Forum - Sharing and learning from fellow community venues

July 2022 - Hacks for creating posters, social media & promoting things at your venue

In our second session of our Community Venue Learning Series, we talk about all things promotion and social media. From design tools and ideas, social media discover and engagement, to collaboration tools, we share practical ideas on how to promote your unique venue!

June 2022: How to activate your community venue

Our first community venue learning webinar and we chat all things Activation! We share the top booking trends that we see across 100's of venues and how you can use these insights to activate your venues. We also hear heaps of brilliant and new ideas from venues across NZ and Australia on the call.

The community venue activation framework

An easy method to help you identify initiatives that will help you activate your venue and create opportunities that are unique for the communities that you serve.

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Check out our popular guides for community venues...

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The ultimate guide for how to move to an online booking system

Guide to recruiting and retaining volunteers

10 Practical Placemaking Ideas for community venues

Want to make it easier to manage bookings at your venue?