One of the means through which our Corps continues to connect with our community, and manages to supplement our income, is through the hire of our facilities to various groups during the week. Both our Seacombe and Glenelg centres have spaces that we can hire out to groups.
We are pretty fussy. Groups need to be compatible with our mission, have their own insurance and be flexible enough to allow for the needs of our Corps to come first. An example of this was in recent negotiations to move one such group to allow our Wednesday service use of the main hall at Seacombe Gardens.
We are also pretty careful with the rates we charge. Because of our legal situation we cannot be commercial hirers or providers of commercial rental spaces. The auditors check regularly to ensure that we are not placing ourselves at legal or financial risk - this means that Lynette often does a comparitive check to ensure our rates are in the right ball park.
I know of late that there have been enquiries about our rates from some members. Lynette can provide exact amounts for you, if you desire. However, the way that they are determined is fairly simple: we charge 'outside' groups a little less than 50% of retail rental for the space they use. Salvation Army uses get a 25% discount off of that low rate. Corps members recieve a 50% discount (on the already 50% rate). This means that our own members can have use of our facilities (power, water, urns, toilet paper, sound system etc) for less than a quarter of what it would cost for the same facility and equipment elsewhere.
Oh... and in case it comes up... we do not charge for funerals or weddings.
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