Lincoln & District Angling Association

Members can join in a few clicks and go fishing straight away, Bailiffs can verify memberships at their fingertips, the club can accept membership payments with ease.

Lincoln & District Angling Association was established in 1868 and is one of the UK’s longest-running fishing clubs. We aim to be the top Association in Lincolnshire, with the best venues and the best members. LDAA is committed to providing angling opportunities that cater for all, with a current portfolio of 9 venues.

We’re proud to welcome anglers from across Britain, particularly those in or close to Lincolnshire including Newark, Gainsborough, Grantham, Peterborough and Boston.

Before we implemented Clubmate, our membership process started with a screenshot of a receipt and the new member’s face and payment details, then we’d manually print a membership card, send an email to the new member thanking them for joining and a list of rules, followed by either dropping a batch of completed membership cards to a designated pick up site or posting them to our new member. Their details were then added to a spreadsheet so that we could keep a log of everyone.

In short, the time spent processing membership cards increased rapidly as member numbers increased, and we wanted to make the club more inclusive. All memberships were processed solely by our Membership Secretary and any checks, enquiries or problems had to go through the secretary alone.

Fortunately, Clubmate was recommended to the LDAA committee by the then Vice-Chairman, who was a bailiff at another angling club that had been using Clubmate successfully for some time. We organised a demo of the software and were quickly impressed by what the software could do.

We decided as a club to sign up, although we were slightly apprehensive due to our lack of IT knowledge; we were all a bit worried that we weren’t computer-savvy enough to be able to learn, use and understand Clubmate.