Stornoway Angling Association

Provided a centralised place to store member information, detailed reporting that committee members can access, clean club website that members can use to renew and make additional purchases, increased revenue through ticket sales.

The Stornoway Angling Association (SAA) was formed in 1931.

Our waters offer some top-class wild brown trout, sea trout & salmon fishing in the Western Isles. 

Membership is open to local & visiting anglers with access to some superb fishing at a very reasonable cost. This includes salmon and sea trout fishing on the River Creed, Loch Langabhat and trout fishing on over a dozen lochs located within 10 miles of Stornoway.

Before we got started with Clubmate, running our club involved a lot of manual work. Membership payments and documents were sent in through the post and there was a lot of back-and-forth file sharing between committee members because we didn’t have one centralised place to store information. 

As you can imagine, this made it difficult to get organised and report on club data at committee meetings. It also meant that running the club was taking a lot of our volunteers’ spare time.

At that time, our membership offering was limited to the amount of admin work that we could take on. We wanted to provide a full range of membership services complete with ticket purchasing and boat bookings, so it was crucial to have a system that could support those aspects of our club along with general member management.

The main thing that stood out for us was how easy it is to use, both for our committee and our members. Switching to running our club online was going to take some getting used to, but having a simple and intuitive interface made the transition relatively seamless.

Clubmate’s communication feature was also incredibly useful because it allowed us to send emails to our members directly from the database, which saved us hours of time and allowed us to cut back on postage costs too. We can keep in touch far more frequently now.