Want to hold an event in Lismore?

Lismore has a proud reputation as a first rate location to host events, with quality infrastructure and facilities. Long regarded as a City of Sport, Lismore also hosts regular business and cultural events.

The  Events Team has experience managing events that bring significant economic benefit for event owners and the region — click here to download a Sporting Benefits Fact Sheet. The Team oversees a range of highly successful events for Lismore. We work with event owners on the viability, inception, implementation and evaluation of major events.

The Events Team

  • Provides an advisory role and support to event owners
  • Determines the level of Council approval required for your event – DA required or not
  • Venue identification and suitability – Click here to see our Venue Guides (Albert Park Baseball and Softball Complex, Memorial Pool and Oakes Oval/Crozier Field)
  • Provides an event co-ordination and administrative role
  • Generates marketing and profile for events
  • Plugs events into regional tourism services and our user-friendly accommodation booking system
  • Secures and devises travel packages that benefit delegates and visiting partners
  • Links to event suppliers and support services
  • Financial support for qualifying events
  • Evaluates events including economic impact assessments on the regional economy, delegate satisfaction surveys and effects on the community


Sometimes we can provide financial assistance for important things that often get overlooked, such as sanitation, traffic management and security.

Here you can see a Calendar of Events for the Lismore Council Area.

Before you decide where to host your next event ‘Think Lismore’.  Call the Events Team on (02) 6626 2000 or email info@investinlismore.com.au