Village Halls - Running your Hall - Making Most of your Hall

The uses of a hall are wide and varied, and while the main use will continue to be a place where local clubs and organisations meet, other uses will emerge to meet demands. It is important for the management committee to keep an open mind and take an active role in promoting the hall for as many purposes as possible.

These pages cover many of the things a management committee needs to take account of to make best use of the hall and create a sustainable income.

Making Most of your Hall Categories

Bookings and Hiring
It's important that a hall is used as fully as possible, and to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to use the hall bookings need to be dealt with efficiently. These pages cover bookings and hiring agreements to protect both parties.

Publicity
Good publicity is the key to getting your hall well used, can increase interest in the hall, lead to more volunteers and create a thriving building. These pages cover the main ways of doing this from notice boards and signs to writing press releases.

Hall Activities
A well used hall will have a wide range of organisations and activities using the facilitities. It would not be possible to cover them all on this website but these pages provide information on some the main considerations to take into account when providing for sport, arts, IT etc.

Trading and Service Delivery
In order to enhance income levels and provide services in rural areas, halls are increasingly developing a range of activity that is outwith their traditional role. Examples are Post Offices, heritage centres, shops, libraries, hairdressers and doctors surgeries. These pages look at some of the things to take into account when considering such activity.