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Sacred Places,

Community Spaces

 

How churches can widen their reach in the community through space sharing

 

Churches play a central role in our communities through the opportunity to bring people together through their faith. However, they also have a crucial role to play in ensuring families, individuals, charities and organisations have a safe and affordable space locally.

Making church spaces available - either for paid hire or for free has so many benefits for both the church and the community. It's a great way to bring new people into the church, and it can create much needed revenue for projects and repairs. For the community, it can be a welcoming space that helps them start a new group, run a small business or celebrate with friends and family.

Many churches aspire to have their spaces used more by local people. But it's hard to know how to make the spaces more visible, the bookings process can be time consuming and then there is all the finance hassle of managing bonds and payments to deal with. 

Every church has the potential to be a hub for community

We want to make it easy for any church to start sharing their space with their community, increase their revenue and remove the painful repetitive admin of managing enquiries and bookings.

SpacetoCo worked with churches in Auckland to design a bookings system that is simple, friendly and works for internal, casual and regular users of the church. But more than that, we also created a marketplace for people to find affordable community spaces. This means your church can be more visible to people who need spaces.  We can help any church reduce the admin of taking bookings, so your team or volunteers can spend their time on activities that better grow the churches mission and purpose. 

 
We've provided the following guides and resources to help churches do more with their spaces....
 

Sacred Places, Community Spaces

 
Our guide with inspiration and practical tips for how to help your church spaces grow their bookings and reach in your local community. Includes ideas for how to make your space more visible, success stories and the benefits of sharing church spaces.
 
 
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promote church

Looking for free training for how to promote your church venue?

SpacetoCo has a free online course for churches to learn how to promote their venue online. No graphic or techy skills required. Find out more on the course information page

 
Learn more about the online skills course

Looking at ways to increase revenue streams for your church?

Read our online guide for 12 ways churches can generate more income for their causes. 
 
Download the guide
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Thinking of sharing your church space but not sure what to charge?

Checkout our pricing guide to help you get started with deciding how much to charge for your church space based on your location, your facilities and the services you offer. 

Get the pricing guide
Space pricing guide

We worked with St Luke's Remuera to help increase their bookings and bring new people and communities into the church

I still get a buzz when I see my pending bookings all lined up for me to accept in my dashboard.
Having all the invoices and payments automated is saving us time each month

Day PamelaPamela Day, Administrator, St Luke's Presbyterian Church, Auckland

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St Lukes,Remuera

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

SpacetoCo is the best bookings software to help you take bookings online, ditch repetitive admin and grow your bookings!

Venues like yours are seeing 10-30% growth in income and getting hours of time back to focus on the work you want to do. Instead of back & forth emails & chasing invoices....

See for yourself how much easier life could be...

 

Learn more

Explore our free guides, resources and training for community venues...

From Clubs to Hubs Guide
Free digital marketing course for community venues
How to move to an online booking system for community venues
Free fees and charges course for community venues
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Grow bookings

Grow Your Bookings

Growing your bookings should not be difficult. You have amazing amenities and a community hungry to access spaces. Is your process holding you back?

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Use Your Spaces Better

Matching the right people to use your shared spaces is key. Whether it's casual, regular or seasonal hire, you want bookings that are risk-free to enable the community.

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Delight Existing Hirers

You have amazing groups who have been coming along to use your spaces for years, but are processes eating up their time too? Learn how to keep your existing customers happy.