The Clubmate journey began in 2016 when our founder Owen attempted to join his local fishing club.
He encountered a far more challenging process than necessary. There were paper forms to download, passport photos to print, stamps and envelopes
to buy, and he even had to order a cheque book from the bank to write a cheque.
After gathering all the required documents and sending them off in the post, the waiting began. And it continued. And continued.
After several weeks passed, he reached out to the committee only to discover that his membership application hadn’t arrived due to an incorrect postal
address on the website! So he had to start all over again.
What should have been a simple 5-minute online task ended up taking more than two months, causing a great deal of extra work, stress, and hassle for
both the member and the committee. It also meant Owen couldn’t go fishing until his second application was processed!
With a career focused on helping businesses with their digital transformation, Owen delved deeper and realized that volunteers in almost every fishing
club faced the same challenges: outdated and inefficient processes that left them with little time for fishing and resulted in anglers waiting weeks for
their memberships.
To address these problems and enable more people to enjoy fishing more frequently, Owen launched Clubmate, the first online management system
exclusively dedicated to serving fishing clubs and fisheries.
Since then, Clubmate has expanded to serve over 275 clubs and fisheries, facilitating access to fishing for over 75,000 anglers, and processing more
than £7,000,000 worth of memberships and tickets annually.
Fishing club volunteers and fishery staff now utilise the software to streamline daily tasks, freeing up more time for what truly matters – like going
fishing!