General

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This section of the Knowledge Base is all about what you have to buy! This is the area to tell us who you buy your services, supplies and equipment from; how good are they? Who would you recommend? Who would you suggest others were careful about? What questions does someone need to ask of their supplier? How much are you paying? Are there any tricks or things that can put you 'in the know' when dealing with suppliers?

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This section of the Knowledge Base is all about getting you hall known, used and viable! This area is most likely to interest those outgoing people who are happiest organising events to raise funds or who have clever ways of attracting new users to their hall. Tell us what fundraising events worked for you, or what ones were a waste of time and effort to stop others making the same mistake. Tell us about the way you make you events a success or ways you market and promote your hall to ensure it is always in use.

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This section of the Knowledge Base is for those practical people who get on and do the jobs that need doing! In this area tell us how you deal with the day to day issues of keeping your hall operational, from bookings to cleaning, from plumbing to electrics, from stages to storage, from volunteers to vandals! What have you done that has worked for you (or perhaps went in to the shape of a very well developed pear!)? Tell us about your practical solutions ...

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This section of the Knowledge Base is all about procedural issues and the ever increasing burdens of legal requirement.

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This section of the Knowledge Base is all about money! This area is most likely to interest hall treasurers and we hope it will add to good practice in record keeping, audit, cash handling systems, banking and investment options, insurance, sources of capital funding, Charity Commission requirements, computer bookkeeping programmes, uses for spreadsheets, setting hire charges, budgeting, depreciation calculations, and much more ...

See minutes of the Associations committee meetings, add your comments, ideas or suggestions on the topics being discussed and get involved 'remotely' with the way your Association is run and what it is doing.

ANSWERS PLEASE:

This 'forum' facility enables you to ask your colleagues in other halls for information, advice, opinions, whatever. To add a new question click on the menu option to 'Pose new question' in the Networking Section... Answers Please. in the lh column. ; then type in a heading and the information you are seeking and then remember to click Save.

You can also use this facility to share information with others if you wish.