Free diagnostic

The UK Club Communication Health Check

Members not coming to club nights? Numbers dropping at events? RSVPs ghosting? Most committees blame the members, but the cause is almost always somewhere in how the club communicates. Twelve quick questions, a score out of 30, and a clear view of where the leaks are and which fixes would actually get members through the door.

Free 90-second diagnostic

How healthy is your club's communication?

Twelve quick questions across the six pillars that decide whether your members actually hear what the committee needs them to hear. You'll get a score out of 30, a per-pillar breakdown, and a clear view of where the biggest lift is. No email required to see your score.

  • Important notices
  • Event promotion
  • Member engagement
  • New member onboarding
  • Payment link clarity
  • Committee record keeping

The six pillars

What we measure, and why each pillar matters

The health check is built around the six things that, in our experience working with UK committees, decide whether a club's communication actually works or quietly falls apart.

01

Important notices

Can the committee get a must-read message to every member, and prove afterwards that they have seen it? AGM calls, rule changes, safeguarding updates, and licensing notices all sit here. Clubs that score badly on this pillar usually find out the hard way, when a decision is challenged because nobody can show who knew what.

02

Event promotion

How members find out what is on, and how reliably the committee collects RSVPs and headcount before the day. Strong clubs send push notifications to phones, capture confirmed attendance, and send reminders. Weak clubs rely on one WhatsApp message that scrolls past in an hour.

03

Member engagement

How regularly members hear from the club between meetings, and whether the committee can see which members are drifting before they quietly disappear. Most lost members do not resign: they just stop turning up. Visibility on engagement decay is the difference between catching them and losing them.

04

New member onboarding

How quickly and cleanly a new member goes from interested to fully signed up, with the right contact details, age confirmation, and terms acceptance captured. Strong onboarding pays off for the next decade of that member's relationship. Weak onboarding shows up as messy data, ghost rows, and committee time spent chasing.

05

Payment link clarity

How members pay subs, match fees, event tickets, and trip deposits, and whether the Treasurer can see who has paid without reconstructing the picture from a notebook. Friction here directly costs cashflow: members who cannot pay in two taps from their phone often do not pay at all.

06

Committee record keeping

Where AGM minutes, the constitution, accounts, and committee documents live, and how easily members can find them when they ask. Strong clubs put everything members touch in one place with version history. Weak clubs rely on the Secretary's laptop and a shared drive nobody remembers the password for.

FAQ

Common questions

Why aren't our members coming to the club anymore?

In our experience working with UK committees, falling attendance is rarely about the club itself: it's almost always about communication. Members don't know what's on, find out too late to plan, miss the reminder, or feel like the message wasn't really for them. The fix has three parts: a single channel members trust (so messages stop getting lost in a 200-message WhatsApp), reminders that land at the right time (morning of, a couple of hours before), and targeting so members only get the posts that actually apply to them. This health check scores you on exactly that, and the per-pillar breakdown shows where to start.

How do we get more members to actually turn up to events?

Three things move the needle on turnout, in order of impact: (1) make it easy to RSVP in one tap, so you have a real number not a guess; (2) send a reminder the morning of and a couple of hours before, automatically, so it doesn't depend on whether the Secretary remembers; (3) post the event with enough notice that members can plan around it. None of this is glamorous, but clubs that fix these three almost always see attendance climb without changing the events themselves. The health check measures whether you currently do these three.

How do we stop members from quietly drifting away?

Most lost members don't resign: they just stop turning up. The committee usually only notices six months later. The fix is visibility. If you can see which members haven't engaged in 30 days (no event RSVPs, no post reads, no payments), you can send them a friendly nudge with what's coming up before they're gone for good. Most clubs have no way to see this and lose members they could have kept with one timely message. The health check's Member Engagement pillar scores you on whether you can currently see drift.

How long does the health check take?

About 90 seconds. There are 12 questions across 6 pillars (2 questions per pillar) and you do not need any data in front of you to answer them.

Do I need to give an email address to see my score?

No. Your score and per-pillar breakdown are shown instantly when you finish. Entering an email is optional and only used if you want a copy of the result sent to you (and the relevant Comnly walkthrough).

Is this just a sales pitch for Comnly?

It's an honest diagnostic. The result page shows your per-pillar breakdown with the lowest-scoring pillars first. Where Comnly genuinely helps with a weak pillar, we link to the feature page so you can decide for yourself. If you already score well on a pillar, we say so.

Who is this designed for?

Committee members of UK clubs and associations: sports clubs, social clubs, working men's clubs, alumni groups, Masonic lodges, Rotary clubs, and similar member-run organisations. If you are a Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, or someone trying to fix how your club communicates, this is for you.

What does it cost?

The health check is free. Comnly itself is £39.99/month for the whole club, or £399/year. Your first three months are £29.99/month as an introductory rate. There is no per-member fee.

How is the score calculated?

Each pillar has two questions. The headline question is worth up to 3 points and the supplemental question is worth up to 2 points, giving a maximum of 5 per pillar. Six pillars at 5 points each gives a maximum total of 30. Bands are 0-10 (high risk of missed communication), 11-20 (functional but fragmented), and 21-30 (strong, but could be centralised).

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