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Growing community bookings facility

Smart solutions to grow your venue without the admin overload

This is a must read for anyone looking at how they can make it easier for the local community to find and book their venue. Packed with practical tips, inspiration and stories for how to grow your bookings and decrease the repetitive admin that many centres struggle with on a daily basis. 

In this guide:

  • Learn about the opportunities we have for venues and how to create better customer journeys to find your spaces, you can unlock so many other benefits for staff, volunteers and communities.

  • Be part of a marketplace and learn how you can be part of a growing 'Airbnb' style marketplace of affordable, local community venues.

  • You can hear from innovative venues who are pioneering new ways to share spaces with communities. Learn how they have increased utilisation of facilities by 50% and reduced repetitive admin.

  • Learn how your venue can get started in weeks with no IT. A quick start guide for how to test and learn to measure the results for your community.

 

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This guide is for you if...

  • You work as a bookings administrator at a community venue
  • You are the GM of a community venue or facility
  • You are a committee member of a trust that manages a community facility
  • You are a custodian of a hall or venue

The following statements apply to your venue...

  • Your communities are continually struggling to find your local venue.

  • It's tough to get accurate data to report bookings, income and other key stats for your board or council.

  • Your team are drowning in admin of managing payments and bookings

  • The processes for booking  your community facilities are time consuming or paper based and cause frustration and errors.

  • You're looking for inspiration from what other venues are doing.

  • You want to understand how facilities like rural halls, sports clubs, churches and maraes can be made more available for the public to use.

Find expert guides, tools, templates and more on topics that's relevant for your venue or spaces

Revenue, Finance and Funding
Revenue, Finance & Funding
Bookings and payments processes
Bookings & Payments Processes
Staff and volunteers
Staff & Volunteers
Community Activation and Engagement
Community Activation & Engagement
Managing hirer relationships
Managing Hirer Relationships
Promoting Your Venue
Promoting Your Venue
Placemaking and neighbourhoods
Placemaking & Neighbourhoods
Stories From Community Venues
Stories From Community Venues
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Want to make managing bookings easier 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.

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Our community of partners

This guide was produced from our work helping a number of organisations to share their spaces. Thanks for Co-creating SpacetoCo with us and sharing your experiences. 

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