One mistake we can make when trying to improve church venue hire is assuming that becoming more professional means becoming more complicated. A parish hall hiring for a few hundred pounds and a historic city church hosting corporate events worth several thousand...
How do you price a church building? It sounds straightforward until you actually try to answer it. The church down the road might charge £50 an hour. A nearby community hall might charge £500 a day. A smaller hotel might charge several thousand. None of those figures...
There’s a conversation I keep having lately. It starts with curiosity and a sense that venue hire could be part of the answer. ‘We’d love to open up the space more. Bring the community in. And let’s be honest — the extra income would really help.’But then comes the...
When a church tells me there isn’t enough demand for its space, I’m usually sceptical. That doesn’t mean every church has a huge untapped market waiting outside its doors. But people still need places to gather. The UK events industry is worth more than £60 billion,...
Last week, I wrote about the four things I think churches need to consider when starting venue hire: Potential, Parameters, Process and Presence. This week, I want to make that practical. These aren’t questions you necessarily need to have perfect answers to. They’re...
If you are thinking about hiring out your church premises, it is tempting to start with the obvious things. How much should we charge? Where should we advertise? Do we need a booking system? Should we put the church hall on a venue directory? Those questions matter....
