
Learn how to help people create communities in local spaces with this practical guide and pathways to reimagine how we find and use community facilities.
Most local boards and district councils will be familiar with the issue of connecting their communities with affordable facilities. Popular spaces are booked out at peak times whereas others seem invisible.
- In this guide we provide tangible ideas and opportunities for councils to support their citizens in finding and using neighbourhood facilities - for both council managed and community lead spaces.
- Learn how by creating better customer journeys to find spaces, you can unlock so many other benefits for staff, volunteers and communities.
- How any council can enable a network of different types of facilities that can be easily found and booked by locals.
- Hear from innovative councils who are pioneering new ways to share spaces with communities. Learn how they have increased utilisation of facilities by 50% and reduced repetitive admin.
- How your council 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're an elected member of Local Government or Council employee and want to make it easier for local facilities to be found and booked
- You work in Community Development and want to support organisations to do more locally
- You work or volunteer for a Regional Sports Trust and you want to make sports clubs and facilities more accessible to communities
Or if the following statements apply to your district...
- Your communities are continually struggling to find local facilities
- It's tough to get accurate data on community facility use to understand what rate payers actually need
- There is a mixture of council owned and council-led facilities, reserves and sports grounds that suffer from peaks and troughs in usage
- The processes for booking community facilities are time consuming or paper-based and cause frustration and errors
- You're looking for economic development ideas for local businesses
- You want to understand how facilities like rural halls, sports clubs, churches and maraes can be made more available for public use
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Bookings & Payments Processes

Staff & Volunteers

Community Activation & Engagement

Managing Hirer Relationships

Promoting Your Venue

Placemaking & Neighbourhoods

Stories From Community Venues
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