2023/2024 Hire Form - Euroa Community Cinema
Please complete and submit this form.
Hire Form - Euroa Community Cinema The Euroa Community Cinema is a Strathbogie Shire Council managed program which is overseen by an operating committee made up of council staff and local volunteers. The cinema can be hired by members of the public and community groups to host a wide variety of events such as fundraisers, forums or concerts.

What to consider when requesting to hire the cinema:
• Events cannot be held during normal cinema operating hours
(Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoons or the first Friday evening of the month)
• The cinema has the capacity to seat 187 + 5 designated wheelchair spaces
• The fees for hiring the cinema hall are listed below. If you would like the Strathbogie Shire Council to consider waiving the fee, this request needs to be made through our Event Grants. Please ensure you read the Event Grants Guidelines to check eligibility.
• As the Euroa Community Cinema is a commercial cinema, there is a fee incurred for the rights to screen a movie, even if this movie is a DVD. This cost cannot be waived. These fees are set by film companies and usually calculated on takings, for example, a common term of hire is 35% of takings, with a minimum of $300. This means the fee would be $300 unless 35% of your takings are over $300 – if your takings were $1000 then the fee would be $350. The Euroa Community Cinema has no control over this fee, but an estimated fee can be provided when a movie is selected.
• The request to hire the cinema will be discussed with the operating committee, which meets bimonthly, therefore it is best to get your request in early.
• Please check the Euroa Community Cinema’s upcoming movies. We recommend you choose a movie that hasn’t already been screened at the cinema, but if you would like a movie that is scheduled to be played at the cinema, your fundraiser must be after the public screening.

What is required prior to the event?
• Advise us if the kiosk is to be open for your event. The kiosk is staffed by Cinema volunteers with all profits going back to the Euroa Community Cinema. This will be subject to Volunteer availability. Alternatively, tables can be set up in the foyer for your own kiosk items to be sold but you will need to seek advice from the Envrionmental Health Officer whether a permit is required.
• Please consider how tickets will be sold – prior to the event and/or at the door. Generally fundraisers do better when tickets are sold prior to the event.

What is required at the event?
• The hirer is required to report the number of patrons attending the movie and the takings made, as this is used to calculate fees and for auditing purposes
• The hirer is expected to arrive at the event at least 30 minutes prior to the movie start time to meet the projectionist
• The hirer will be responsible for operating the ticket box including providing a money float
• The hirer is responsible for managing event
• The hirer is responsible for advertising of the event
• The hirer is responsible for cleaning up after the event

Please submit your complete application 2 months prior to event. Once received, the Cinema Coordinator will contact you to let you know if the cinema is available and to advise of the progress of your application.
Your Contact Details
The Event


This will be dependent on Euroa Community Cinema Volunteer availability.





Movie Details Only complete if movie is to be screened at you event
eg. At the door/Prior to event/Online
Additional information
Fees

Cinema Half Day/Evening (Bond is $350) (Value:$250)

Use of Entire Stage *non-refundable fee to cover the cost involved in moving speakers, raising and lowering the screens and to clean stage before and after event. (Value:$50)

Cleaning (required if serving food) (Value:$133.10)

Total:           -

Fees cannot be waived for the following:
-Educational institutions
- Religious organisations or institutions
- Political organisations
- Commercial, profit-making organisations
- State or federal government agencies
- Groups who have an overdue acquittal from a previous funding application

if yes, you must upload a letter addressed to Strathbogie Shire Council CEO requesting the waiving of fees and reasons why you would like them waived. Please see below list of ineligible to request bed waived. Please note cost of movie and cleaning cannot be waived.

Terms and Conditions

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Euroa Community Cinema Hire Terms and Conditions Euroa Community Cinema Hire Terms and Conditions
The Euroa Community Cinema is a Strathbogie Shire Council managed program which is overseen by an operating committee made up of council staff and local volunteers.
The cinema can be hired by members of the public and community groups to host a wide variety of events such as fundraisers, forums or concerts. What to consider when requesting to hire the cinema:
• Events cannot be held during normal cinema operating hours (Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoons or the first Friday evening of the month) unless agreed to by the operating committee
• The cinema has the capacity to seat 187 seats + 5 designate wheelchair seats
• The fees for hiring the cinema hall are listed below. If you would like the Strathbogie Shire Council to consider waiving the fee you will need to put a request to the CEO in writing. More information can be found in the Euroa Community Cinema Hire Form.
• As the Euroa Community Cinema is a commercial cinema, there is a fee incurred for the rights to screen a movie, even if this movie is a DVD. This cost cannot be waived. These fees are set by film companies and usually calculated on takings, for example, a common term of hire is 35% of takings, with a minimum of $300. This means the fee would be $300 unless 35% of your takings are over $300 – if your takings were $1000 then the fee would be $350. The Euroa Community Cinema has no control over this fee, but an estimated fee can be provided when a movie is selected.
• The request to hire the cinema will be discussed with the operating committee, which meets bimonthly, therefore it is best to get your request in early.
• Please check the Euroa Community Cinema’s upcoming movies. We recommend you choose a movie that hasn’t already been screened at the cinema, but if you would like a movie that is scheduled to be played at the cinema, your fundraiser must be after the public screening.
What is required prior to the event?
• Advise us if the kiosk is to be open for your event. The kiosk is staffed by Cinema volunteers with all profits going back to the Euroa Community Cinema and will be dependent on Euroa Community Cinema Volunteer availability. Alternatively, tables can be set up in the foyer for your own kiosk items to be sold but you will need to seek advice from the Environmental Health Officer whether a permit is required.
• Please consider how tickets will be sold – prior to the event and/or at the door. Generally fundraisers do better when tickets are sold prior to the event.
• Advertising is the responsibility of the hirer.
What is required at the event?
• The hirer is required to report the number of patrons attending the movie and the takings made, as this is used to calculate fees and for auditing purposes
• The hirer is expected to arrive at the event at least 30 minutes prior to the movie start time to meet the projectionist
• The hirer will be responsible for operating the ticket box including providing a money float
• The hirer is responsible for cleaning up after the event. If you are serving food or drinks at your event you will be required to pay an additional cleaning fee.
Please submit your complete application 2 months prior to event. Once received, the Cinema Coordinator will contact you to let you know if the cinema is available and to advise of the progress of your application.
Conditions of Hire
The Council grants the hire of the Cinema Hall building subject to the following conditions:-
1. APPLICATION The right to use the facility is subject to Council receiving an application form signed by the proposed hirer undertaking to comply with these conditions. If the proposed hirer is a Club, the application must include the personal undertaking by the President and Secretary of the Club.
3. HIRE FEES Hire fees shall be in accordance with the Strathbogie Shire Council Fee’s and Charges and will be payable upon receipt.
4. PREPARTION FOR FUNCTIONS A charge will not normally be made for use of the facility in relation to preparation for functions, however, Council may impose a charge at its discretion under certain circumstances.
5. CANCELLATION OF BOOKING Cancellation of a booking for the hire of the premises should be made to Council as soon as possible.
6. INSURANCE All hirer’s of the Euroa Community Cinema must have a minimum of $20milion Public Liability Insurance.
8. ACTS AND REGULATIONS The hirer shall conform to the requirements of the Health Act, Local Government Act, any Local Laws/By-laws or Regulations made thereunder and shall be liable for any breach of such Acts, Local Laws/By-Laws or Regulations. All other Statutory rules, provisions and regulations of the Commonwealth of Australia or State of Victoria being in force at the time must be complied with by the user and notices given to the relevant officers.
9. OBSTRUCTIONS The hirer shall comply in every respect with regulations under the Health Act and Victorian Building Regulations with regard to Public Buildings for the prevention of overcrowding and obstruction of gangways, passages, corridors, or of any part of the building.
10. PERMISSION TO OCCUPY
(a) The hirer shall only be entitled to the use of the particular part or parts of the building hired on the date set out in the Schedule to the application and Council reserves the right to permit any other portion of the building to be hired for any other purpose at the same time.
(b) The right conferred on the hirer shall be a permission to occupy and shall not be construed as a tenancy. Nothing contained in these conditions shall confer on a regular hirer the right to exclusive possession and Council may, at its discretion, allow other individuals and groups to have casual use of the premises.
11. ASSIGNMENT Hirers that are granted permission to use the facility shall not assign the right of use to any other person, organisation or body.
12. ADULT SUPERVISION Hirers under the age of 21 years must have the application form referred to in Clause 1 completed by an adult who will be supervising the function. The person completing the application form and whose signature appears on the same is subject to these terms and conditions.
13. GAMBLING No Game of Chance at which either directly or indirectly money is passed as a prize shall take place in any part of the premises, with the exception that this clause shall not prevent the hirer using the premises for games of Bingo or equivalent, providing relevant permits have been obtained.
14. POLICE The hirer shall, when so directed by Council, arrange for police attendance.
15. DETERMINATION If the hirer commits, permits or allows any breach or default in the performance and observance of any of these conditions, the Council may terminate the permission to use the premises and the hirer shall immediately vacate the premises, hire fees will still be required in full.
16. THEFT Neither the Council nor its servants shall be liable for any loss or damage sustained by the hirer or any other person, firm or corporation entrusting to or supplying any article or item to the hirer for reason of any such article or thing being lost, damaged or stolen. The hirer hereby indemnifies the Council against any claim by any such person, firm or corporation in respect of such article or thing. Wesley Hall & Community Cinema Conditions of Hire - Occasional Hirers
17. REFUSAL TO GRANT HIRE It shall be at the discretion of the Council to refuse to grant the hire of the facility in any case and, not withstanding that permission to hire the premises may have been granted or that these conditions may have been accepted and signed and the fees and deposit paid, the Council shall have the power to cancel such permission and direct the return of the fees and deposit so paid. The hirer hereby agrees, in such case, to accept the same and shall be held to have consented to such cancellation and to have no claim at law or in equity for any loss or damage in consequence thereof.
18. GOOD ORDER
(a) The hirer shall be responsible for the full observance of these conditions and for the maintenance and preservation of good order in the building throughout the whole duration of the period of use.
(b) No spitting, obscene or insulting language or disorderly behaviour or damage to property shall be permitted in any part of the building.
19. CLEANLINESS The hirer is responsible for leaving the premises in a clean and tidy state and shall remove all rubbish, refuse and waste matter immediately following the function and dispose of it in the bins provided. If food is served a cleaning fee will be charged as per Strathbogie Shire Council Fees and Charges. Any cost incurred by Council in cleaning the premises resulting from the condition in which the hirer left the premises shall be recoverable from the hirer.
20. DAMAGES
(a) The floors, walls, blinds or any other part of the building or any fittings or furniture shall not be broken, pierced by nails or screws or in any other way damaged.
(b) The hirer shall accept full financial responsibility for damage to Council property except for normal wear and tear.
21. SIGNAGE No notice, sign, advertisement, scenery, fitting or decorations of any kind shall be erected on the building or attached or affixed to the walls or any other portion of the building, fittings or furniture, without prior consent of the Council.
22. SMOKING Smoking is not permitted in the building.
23. LIQUOR The sale of Liquor on the premises is forbidden unless the hirer obtains a permit from the Liquor Control Commission and the permit is produced to the Council, who shall make an endorsement on the Schedule to the application.
24. SUBJECT OF ENTERTAINMENT The Council may require the hirer to submit for approval details of the proposed use of the premises.
26. DISPUTES In the event of any dispute of difference arising as to the interpretation of these conditions, or of any matter or thing contained therein, the decision of the Council thereon shall be final and conclusive.
27. PERFORMING RIGHTS In the case of a dramatic or other performance or concert, the hirer shall not produce, or permit to be produced or performed, any dramatic or musical work in infringement of the copyright or performing right of any owner of such right or rights, and the hirer agrees to indemnify the Council against any claim for breach of copyright or any other action herewith.
28. USE OF KITCHEN Professional Caterers and Community Groups must provide a copy of their Food Act Registration or copy of Statement of Trade lodged with Foodtrader at least 5 days prior to function. All users of the kitchen must ensure that all aspects of their Food Safety Plans are adhered to including regular temperature monitoring and appropriate record keeping. All appliances, bench tops and floors must be thoroughly cleaned after use. Any cost incurred by Council in cleaning the kitchen resulting from the condition in which the hirer left the kitchen shall be recoverable from the hirer.
29. SAFETY REGULATIONS Upon arrival, all user groups must take note of all Fire Exits, Fire Extinguishers and Emergency Procedures provided within the facility so that they are fully informed in the event of an emergency. Council’s after hours telephone number is 5795 0000.