Free Guides and Resources for Community Venues

 

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Revenue, Finance & Funding

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Bookings, Payments & Processes

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Managing Hirer Relationships

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Community Activation & Engagement

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Managing Staff & Volunteers

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Placemaking & Neighbourhoods

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How to Promote Your Venue

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Reactivating community venues

A practical guide to help you activate and energise your venue into a thriving hub.

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12 ways to generate income for your venue

New ideas to create cash and revenue streams to fund your mission and purpose.

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Learn how to price your venue

Get your free tool to help you assess how much you should charge your spaces out for.

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Learn from Experts at Our Free Monthly Webinars

Access the recordings or join us live at our next session. A different community venue hot topic every month!

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How to make the most of your community venue

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Zero waste for community venues

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Building strategic relationships for community engagement

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Community Centres

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Council Facilities

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Arts & Rehearsal Facilitiesa

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Rural Halls & Reserves

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Churches & Places of Worship

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Sports & Recreation

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Schools & Universities

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Peppercorn Leased Properties

The How-To Guides You've Been Looking For

Level up your skills with these guides made for people that work with community venues

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How to engage and retain committee members

Tips to help you attract and retain the people that will help your venue thrive!

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The case for simplifying fees and charges

A guide for simplifying venue fees and charges and some tips on how to do so. 

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Re-imagining community facilities bookings

A practical guide and pathways  to reimagine how we find and use community facilities.

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    Celebrating Community Venues

    Why we think community venues are so important for creating incredible outcomes for society

    Resources

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    Training & Tutorials

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    Case Studies

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    Webinars

    Explore Online Venue Bookings & Payments Management with SpacetoCo

    Thinking about making your bookings & payments processes more efficient? Check out the ways SpacetoCo can help you ditch admin and grow bookings revenue

    Online calendar and availability
    Regular hire management
    Increase bookings and revenue
    Take payments for bookings online
    One click bookings
    Easy data and reporting
    Never invoice again!
    Free customer support
    No more back & forth emails
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    Stories

    Inspirational stories from incredible humans who care about helping people create communities in local spaces

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    Lucy-Mary, Auckland

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    Jill,  Auckland

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    Kendra, Kalamunda

    Going Online Collection

    Stories from community venue managers who have made the shift from manual to online bookings

    The Vincent Street Story

    Watch this short documentary about what happened when a free community pop up opened in the heart of Auckland's CBD.

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