How to start a social club?

How to start a social club?

A social club characterizes a group of individuals with a common or mutual interest in a particular activity, objective, cause, occupation, or even a topic; regularly meets in a specific environment, venue, or social space; and involves initiating events or social activities. Some examples of clubs include sports clubs, cultural clubs, interest clubs, hobby clubs, service clubs, lifestyle clubs, etc.

In this blog post, let’s understand why social clubs exist, what makes them successful, and how to start or create a social club.

Why do social clubs exist and what are the benefits?

Firstly, joining a social club enables you to develop knowledge and expertise in a particular activity or domain. Second, it helps each other grow by sharing past experiences, mistakes, and learnings. Third, it promotes teamwork and paves the way for creating new, specialized community groups with certain goals, plans, and actions for the welfare of the associated communities.

What is important for the success of a social club? 

For a social club to be successful, it needs strong focus, effective teamwork, an organized group, and consistent efforts. However, the one thing that revolves around all these four factors and that positively influences is communication. Hence, if you ask us, “What makes a successful social club?”, our answer would be effective team communication. A well-connected and coordinated team or a group can focus on the goals, make efforts, and materialize things as planned. 

How do I start a small social club?

The best way to create and manage a club or its activities is by creating a social club online with the help of a communication app. Here is a step-by-step approach to starting a social club. 

Step 1 

The first step covers the prerequisites including contemplating the social cause, topic, or interest for which the social group or club ought to be created and finding mutually interested people to add as club members. 

Step 2

After deciding on the type of social club you are about to create, simply download and install a communication mobile app. Even a free team communication app would suffice as it covers the maximum features and functionalities that social club activities need assistance with.  

Step 3

Once you install the application, start creating a club with a unique name, term, description, logo, and banner. In the case of already existing clubs, you can add your social handles or website links if any. 

Step 4

Now that the club is created online on any social club app or communication app of your choice, start setting up the leadership team including the director, secretary, president, vice president, owner, etc. 

 

Group communication apps like Actavivo allow you to customize (Add, modify, or delete) the roles based on the club type or the community. Also, it has an option to add ‘Parents’ which allows only specific members to post updates, messages, and events on the group and gives access to read the DMs from individual members.

Step 5

The next step is to add members to the newly created club. Either you can manually add members or choose from your phone contacts. As mentioned earlier, some apps generate QR codes to make it easy for you to share the invite with hundreds of people you know. In this way, you can easily pull people from your local groups who have the same interest in the club. 

Step 6

After adding the club members, you can create groups with a few members who work on a particular goal or event. Honestly, no communication app restricts the number of groups you can create under a club or its term. Moreover, you can make use of the club management features like group chat, post, photo share, upload documents, etc.

 

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