Brynmill & District Angling Club

Increased income & membership numbers by 50%, significantly reduced the amount of manual labour involved in signing up new members, members can now join & pay online as well as in tackle shops.

Brynmill Angling Club was formed just after the 1st World War and was granted its first lease on Brynmill Park Lake in 1927. They run two Coarse Fisheries in the Swansea Enterprise Park that caters for Pleasure, Specimen and Match anglers. The Fendrod Lake occupies an area of 13 acres and has a good head of Carp up to just over 30 pounds in weight, Bream into double figures, and smaller Roach, Rudd and Perch. The Half Round Ponds occupies a half-acre site behind Dobbies Garden Centre is a mixed fishery with Roach, Rudd, Carp, Tench Perch and Crucian Carp.

The Club has spent thousands of hours and pounds on improving and developing these fisheries and now provides coarse fishing for Pleasure, Match & Carp anglers.

We sold permits at two local tackle shops; supplying them with the membership forms and a camera to take photos for the ID cards. Every few months I’d go to each shop and collect copies of the permit forms and move the ID card photos from the camera to my laptop at home. Then, I’d create a monthly spreadsheet with the new members’ details which would then be sent to the printers with their photos for the ID cards to be printed and shipped to each member. At the time, we had an average of 300 members per year, so It was a time-consuming, expensive process for us.

Our members didn’t have one central place that they could go to for information. We had a club website, but it was very basic and outdated so it was barely used. 

Any membership fees were paid in cash, so on top of organising memberships and getting ID cards printed & shipped, we had to take the cash to the bank each month. The amount of time we were spending on admin simply wasn’t practical – we needed an end-to-end solution that solved all of our problems.

memberships compared to our usual method of paper forms and spreadsheets. They even offered a website building service, so we could update everything at the same time and use it as a fresh start for the operations side of the club.

The only barrier I faced was getting the cost approved by our committee, but when we took into account the printing costs and logistics of how we were running the club before, there wasn’t much of a disparity in price anyway.