Spencers Wood Village Hall: a website the committee can run

Spencers Wood Village Hall is the heart of the village: weekly classes and clubs, a monthly market, a repair café, and a hall that local people and groups hire for parties and meetings. It's run by a committee of volunteers, so the website has to be something they can look after themselves, without calling me every time a class changes its time.

What was needed

• "What's on this week", without anyone updating it by hand. Activities run on patterns like "Monday and Thursday evenings" or "the first Sunday of the month", and the site needed to show the next session for each one.
• The market and repair café given pages of their own, with photos.
• Hall hire made clear: the spaces, the terms, and a simple way to ask about a booking.
• An admin that volunteers can use to change activities and pages, upload photos, and add news.

What I built

• Activities with their next session worked out automatically. Volunteers type the day and time the way they'd say it ("1st Sunday of month", "7:30 PM - 9:00 PM"), and the site works out when the next one is, in UK time, so the home page always shows what's coming up.
• A small admin for activities, pages and photos. A new page can be added without touching the code.
• Pages for the market, the repair café, hall information and hire, with an enquiry form that goes straight to the right people.
• Fast, phone-friendly pages that search engines understand, on modern hosting that needs very little looking after.

The result

The new site is far more modern in its design and looks current, and I think that lifts it above other village hall websites. It's also much easier to see when events and activities are on, whether that's today, tomorrow or next week.