March 20, 2019
BookingsPlus online lettings software, designed specifically for schools, will help reduce the time spent on your lettings administration whilst helping you maximise your venue income. Leaving you with more time to focus on the core function of running your school. With BookingsPlus you have all you need at your fingertips to ensure your lettings run […]
February 25, 2019
Social media is an invaluable resource to help promote your facilities, drive more traffic to your site and increase enquires as a result. There are only a few simple steps required to begin growing your online presence so please read on for our top tips to advertise your venue online. 1. Create Create a page […]
January 3, 2019
Haverstock School in Camden was built by Kajima and the community access is currently managed by Kajima Community. Over the duration of the 13 year collaboration, Kajima has worked with the school to establish a successful, long term partnership, defined by close cooperation and a clear understanding of shared values. A central aim of the […]
December 5, 2018
Samantha Nixon heads up our marketing team and specialises in promoting the hire of school facilities and their activity timetables to local communities. Here, Sam offers five of her top tips to ensure your school stands out from the rest! Website – ensure you have a very obvious ‘Community Hire’ section on your school website […]
December 5, 2018
Gill Bradley, Founder, Crystal Cats Line Dancing What is the nature of the club you run? I run Crystal Cats Line Dancing. I started my club exactly fourteen years ago with the aim of offering a friendly, lively dance class, and we’re still going strong today! How long have you been hiring school facilities? We […]
December 5, 2018
BookingsPlus is our bespoke online lettings software, designed specifically for schools to help them maximise the use of their facilities out of hours. In 2018, as we celebrate BookingsPlus’s 5th birthday, Development Manager, Jo Doull, takes a look back at why and how the online lettings software was born and what its aims are for […]
December 5, 2018
Penny Gordon, Managing Director, Waterbabies Durham & Darlington What is the nature of the club you run? I run Waterbabies, the number one leading baby swim school in the world. We teach 20 different Chapters for young swimmers, all the way from tiny babies and toddlers to children of around five years’ old. All of […]
December 5, 2018
Durham Trinity School is to use Kajima Community’s BookingsGuru lettings administration and marketing services to facilitate the hiring of its facilities for community use. The School’s sports hall, Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), swimming pool, sports field, cookery room, meeting rooms and classrooms will all be available for hire before and after school hours, at […]
December 5, 2018
We are pleased to announce David Stubbs as our new Training & Customer Service Manager. David’s role will see him train and support new and existing clients in how to use our online lettings software, BookingsPlus. David comes from a software and training background, having graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Staffordshire University […]
December 5, 2018
Last week we announced Amersham School and their community partners The Pauline Quirke Academy as the winners of our inaugural Open Your Space Awards. The school are to be awarded a cash prize of £8,000 in recognition of their partnership with the local performing arts academy. SLS Managing Director and Judge of this years awards, […]
November 21, 2018
We’re pleased to announce the winner of our Open Your Space Awards for 2018. The inaugural award recognises strong partnerships between schools and their local community. Buckinghamshire based Amersham School, has been awarded the £8,000 cash prize, in recognition of the school’s purposeful and strategic engagement with its local community. The Open Your Space Award aims […]
November 8, 2018
Built to make your lettings simple to manage, BookingsPlus, offers a host of benefits enabling you to take control of your income, debtors and financial reporting. Find out more about: Payments made easy Simple and speedy invoicing Easy reporting Eliminating debtors As well as all this BookingsPlus offers a built in marketing website to promote […]
November 8, 2018
Our Open Your Space Awards entry period for 2018 is now closed. The awards, which aim to recognise lasting partnerships between schools and their local communities, received over 100 nominations from schools, hirers, users and members of the community involving grassroots sports clubs through to community events for over 500 people. We’ll be announcing our award winners […]
October 15, 2018
We’ve added a few new and exciting features to BookingsPlus that will help you streamline your lettings administration even further. Flag any concerns about particular clients to your colleagues, have the option to pre-populate more than two prices on each of your spaces and insert additional fields in to your client report. Click here to find out […]
July 18, 2018
The run up to the summer months have been busy at BookingsPlus HQ, getting our software GDPR ready for our customers. Click here to read about our GDPR compliant updates, find out what’s in store for the remainder of 2018 and to enter our Open Your Space Awards, giving your school the opportunity to win […]
June 28, 2018
BookingsPlus has partnered with Australian firm RealeSpace to offer lettings solutions to schools and community venues, down-under. RealeSpace was established in 2017 by a group of young professionals with a background in educational services, sports, property and event management. The company is driven by the aim of assisting schools and other community organisations, in Australia […]
June 25, 2018
Our latest leaflet is out now. If you’re a secondary school Business Manager your copy should be with you, or arriving very soon! If you’ve not yet received your copy, why not take a closer look at some of the features and benefits of our complete online lettings software: Free upgrades & developments Ongoing after-sales […]
May 15, 2018
Kajima Community have developed BookingsPlus to assist schools in hiring out their facilities to the local community. The system is online and has been developed specifically for the educational market. It has been developed by us, in the UK, using agile methodologies. It is a cloud based, highly scalable SaaS platform. We have recently won a new […]
May 9, 2018
We are pleased to announce the launch of our inaugural Open Your Space Awards – acknowledging strong partnerships between schools and their local community. The Award aims to recognise those schools who are opening their doors to the local community, bringing benefits to the school, their partners and those who participate. The school that most […]
May 1, 2018
We know that school lettings can be profitable – we’ve been managing them ourselves for over 15 years. We also know that spreading the word about your fantastic facilities and generating new business can be time consuming. That’s why we designed BookingsPlus, the secret to becoming a lettings genius! BookingsPlus will help you generate new […]