ActivityForum A powerful solution for community groups and clubs Provides them with a shared base to build their membership for any number of activities. Examples are social clubs,sport clubs, neighbourhood communities, holiday and travel, hobbies and interests, adventure and challenge, leisure facilities,housing associations, professional bodies manages membership subscriptions automatically,  e-mail or label printing, events management and promotion, share the committee workload, enjoy peace of mind with system resilience provided by Objective Internet Hosting services. 

ActivityForum is the ideal tool to run any membership group from 50 to 50,000 members. The design of the system is constantly updated as a result of customer feed back and new technology available on the web The systen is scaleable as you grow the system grows with you. You can break down the member groups into smaller special interest groups. You can create any number of fee types for your membership subscriptions.  

The management of each special interest group can be delegated to those members that organise it. New members can see at a glance the activities available. Building Community ActivityForum is designed to support the natural growth of online and offline communities, through a range of linked facilities.  Social contact is an important ingredient in the building of these relationships

ActivityForum is an enabler to maintaining these contacts, through it's built in web pages, forums, news and event management.  With this easy to use tool they can both achieve a higher level of member retention without passing on increased workloads to their staff and volunteers. 

ActivityForum gives the community's organisers the tools to organise their activities quickly and effectively. Leaving them more time to do what they are good at. 

Membership Management

 Existing ActivityForum users include many sports clubs who use it to maintain their membership lists and promote their sports and social activities to a wider audience.

Sports clubs often have a membership fee due at the start of a season, or fees due when matches are played.  Professional organisations with annual subscriptions use ActivityForum to collect subscriptions annually either at specified times or on the anniversary of joining. 

ActivityForum is flexible and copes easily with different payment schemes. Payments are handled automatically with the due dates being managed by the system  Making sure the subscriptions are paid and reminding the late payers is the key to the continuing survival of membership groups. 

A professional body that now uses ActivityForum had not maintained their membership list for two years, they were moving into their third year of poor list management when they called us for help.  We were able to help them to clean up their list to the extent they collected a backlog of membership fees and then renewals for a two year period over 3 months.  Their membership is delighted their professional body is back in action and in robust financial health. 

Event Management

 ActivityForum has helped and supported a number of groups in deprived areas that in turn received financial support from local authorities, central government and charities.  These groups rely on seed funding from these sources, for long-term survival. They not only have to raise money from member subscriptions but also income from events.  The built in event booking facility also allows attendance at events to be tracked and reported to supporting organisations.

Payment Processing

 You have an option of a number of payment providers these will collect the subscriptions due and pay the amount directly into your bank account. Payment Processing also supports an automatic renewal on the next payment date.  For registered charities ActivityForum provides the Gift Aid function supporting Gift Aid claims from the Inland Revenue.