Websites for clubs, societies and associations.
// membership · renewals · members areas · committees · shows · newsletters
// free first draft · sites from £600 · hosting £25/mo
Every association I have worked with has the same story. Somebody built the site years ago, that person moved on, and now the secretary keeps a spreadsheet of members, chases renewals by post, and emails the newsletter one address at a time. It works, right up until the person holding it together steps down.
What I build is the version that survives a change of committee. Members join and renew online and the money lands in the association's account, the members area holds the documents and the directory, and the public pages tell the story to everyone else. Nobody needs to be technical to run it. From £600 for the public side, with membership and renewals quoted on top of what they actually involve.
What an association site has to do
Take renewals without the secretary
Members join and renew online, pay by card, and get their receipt automatically. The reminder goes out on time whether or not anyone remembers to send it, and the list of who has paid is always current.
Keep a members area worth logging into
Minutes, constitutions, forms, the flock book or the register, the member directory, and whatever else currently lives in an inbox. Behind a login, searchable, and added to by whoever holds the role rather than by me.
Hand over cleanly
The next secretary inherits a login and a one-page note, not a mystery. Everything lives in a repository the association owns, so any developer could pick it up, and I am not a single point of failure for a volunteer organisation.
Tell the outside world what you are
Most people who land on an association site are not members. They are looking for a show date, a breed, a right of way, a contact for the committee. Those pages carry the public story and the ones that get found in a search.
Cost what a small association can carry
These are subscription-funded bodies, not businesses. Hosting is one predictable monthly figure with nothing bolted on, and changes are billed by the half hour, so a quiet year costs almost nothing.
// what one looks like
Built for businesses like yours.
Sites built for clubs, societies and associations around here. Yours would start the same way: a chat, whatever you've already got, and a working draft within days.
// questions
The questions clubs, societies and associations ask first.
- Our committee changes every couple of years. Who looks after it then?
- That is the case I design for. Renewals and the members area run themselves, content changes come to me by email, and the whole thing sits in a repository the association owns. The Greyface Dartmoor society and the Harford and Ugborough Commoners have both been through changes of officer without anything breaking.
- Can members pay their subscription online?
- Yes, by card, straight into the association account, with the receipt and the record handled for you. It is the single change that saves the most volunteer time, and it usually pays for itself in the first renewal round.
- We have years of documents and back issues. Where do those go?
- Into the members area, sorted the way the association thinks about them rather than the way a filing system does. Send them however they are, including a folder of scans, and I will do the sorting. That is the job I would rather you did not spend a committee meeting on.
Wherever you are: the towns I work in, and everywhere in between.