For hobby, craft and special-interest clubs
For every club built around a shared passion.
Chess clubs, photo societies, car and motorcycle clubs, model engineers, gardening groups, woodworkers and makers — ClubHelix handles your members, events, workshops, shop and newsletter on one platform.
Updated 10 Aug 2026
Why committees of hobby clubs come to us
The same problems show up in every committee meeting. ClubHelix is built to retire each one for good.
- Memberships renewed via PayPal links emailed once a year.
- Workshop sign-ups in a Google Form with no waitlist.
- Newsletter sent via the chairperson's personal Gmail.
- No public site that does justice to the community you've built.
- Event entry fees collected in cash with no record.
What ClubHelix does for hobby clubs
The platform mapped onto the moments your year actually runs on.
Annual memberships
Self-serve renewal with full, associate, family, junior and concession categories — Stripe Connect for payment, automatic reminders before lapse, and a clean list of who's paid.
Workshops and meetings
Regular meetings and workshops as recurring events with capacity caps and waitlists. Personalised ICS feed per member — venue changes push in seconds.
Annual show or exhibition
Native ticketing for annual shows, exhibitions, swap meets or open days — assigned slots, partner tickets, dietary, all on your own site with no third-party fees.
Club shop
Club shop for merchandise, member-only gear, second-hand member listings or curated supplies — with size and variant tracking.
Member newsletter
Monthly newsletter broadcast to members or the wider mailing list. Send from your own clubname@yourclub.org on Pro and Enterprise, with subscriber preference centre.
Special-interest groups and chat
Give each interest group its own chat channel the club controls — moderated, with membership managed by the committee rather than whoever happens to own the group-chat admin seat.
Member directory and projects
Members publish project pages, photo galleries or workshop reports through the same editor that runs the club site — with consent controls and a clean public profile.
The AGM
Small groups still have to report: how many financial members, what the subs brought in, what the events cost and what the balance looks like. The committee pack is the whole AGM annexure, run once a year in about a minute.
What is a hobby club website builder?
A hobby club website builder puts a chess club, photography society, car club or gardening group on the same online footing as any large organisation: a public site that does justice to the community you've built, with club management software for hobby clubs working underneath it. In ClubHelix that means self-serve membership sign-up and renewal, meetings and workshops on one shared calendar, a newsletter that no longer leaves from the chairperson's personal inbox, a club shop for gear and supplies, and a page editor to publish the lot — one login and one member record, instead of a payment link emailed once a year and a workshop sign-up form with no waitlist.
Renewals, workshop nights and the annual show
Annual membership is the quiet engine of a hobby club, and it should run itself. Members renew online in full, associate, family, junior or concession categories, pay by card through Stripe Connect, and receive automatic reminders before they lapse — leaving the secretary a clean list of who's paid instead of a chase-up round. Regular meetings and workshops run as recurring events with capacity caps and waitlists, and every member gets a personalised calendar feed, so a venue change pushes to their diary in seconds rather than dying in an unread email.
The big weekend — the annual show, exhibition, open day or swap meet — sells tickets natively on your own site, with assigned slots, partner tickets and dietary fields, and no third-party ticketing fees. Entry money arrives as a payment record, not cash with no record of who paid it.
The shop, the chat and the monthly newsletter
The club shop covers merchandise and member-only gear through to curated supplies and club-managed second-hand listings from members, with sizes and variants tracked. Each special-interest group inside the club can have its own chat channel — moderated, with membership controlled by the committee rather than by whoever happens to hold the group-chat admin seat. The monthly newsletter goes out as a broadcast to members or the wider mailing list — from your own club address on Pro and Enterprise via a custom sender — with a preference centre so readers choose what they hear about.
A hobby club website that shows the work
Whatever your members make — prints, engines, quilts, endgames, gardens — the site should show it. The page editor builds galleries, meeting pages and project write-ups without anyone learning to code, and members can publish their own project pages, photo galleries and workshop reports through the same editor that runs the club site, with consent controls and a clean public profile. Start from the template gallery and have something live in an evening, or click around the live demo first to see what your visitors would get.
Free hobby club software to start
Every club starts on the free plan — a public site and core admin at no cost, with no time limit. When you're ready for more, paid plans carry a 14-day free trial, bill on a 28-day cycle and can be cancelled any time; current tiers are on the pricing page. Membership and shop money settles directly into the club's own Stripe account — ClubHelix never holds your funds — and the platform fee is never surcharged to your members.
Moving an established club across
Hobby and special-interest clubs run on ClubHelix in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland and South Africa, with payments settling in your local currency through your own account.
Most clubs arrive with a membership spreadsheet, a renewal link and a decade of photographs. Import the members, set up this year's renewal, and let the next workshop be the first one with a proper waitlist. If you're weighing it up, talk to us — and if you're starting something brand new, our guide to starting a book club walks through getting a small interest group off the ground.
Features in your plan
Every plan starts free and includes the whole platform below — browse all features or compare plans.
Canvas page editor
A no-code, drag-and-drop club website editor. Your page, exactly as it publishes — click a section to edit it, drag to reorder, add new ones right where you want them.
Self-registration
Club membership software that handles the joining for you: online registration and season sign-ups on your own branded site, with email verification and optional admin approval.
Events
A club events calendar with one-off and recurring events — and ticket sales built in, so you never send members off to an external ticketing site.
Forms & surveys
Build custom forms with conditional fields, and manage every response from one shared inbox.
Broadcasts
Send a message to everyone, a role, or a custom segment of members.
Donations
One-off and recurring donations with a fee-cover option, donor messages, and a ledger of their own.
Club shop
Run a club shop or team store: take uniform, kit and spirit wear orders online with variants, carts and order management — with GST handled properly on every sale.
Mobile app
A club app of your own — install-to-home-screen with your branding, push notifications and digital membership cards, no app store required.
Frequently asked questions
The questions hobby club committees ask before signing up.
- No — the free tier gets a single club online with a public site and a small starting roster. Most clubs move to Standard once they load their members, and also for custom domains, more storage or a custom sender.
- Yes. An association sits one tier above member clubs, with cascading branding, a cross-club directory and centralised reporting.
- Yes. Each workshop is a paid event with capacity, waitlist and a refund window. Stripe Connect handles the payment, and the attendee list is visible to the coordinator in real time.
- You can run a club-curated shop with member-listed items, where the club takes a small commission and the listing rolls off when the item sells. Full peer-to-peer marketplace is out of scope.
Is ClubHelix overkill for a small hobby club?
Can we run an umbrella association of hobby clubs?
Do you support paid workshops with waitlists?
Can we sell second-hand member listings via the shop?
More clubs like yours
ClubHelix isn't a single-sport tool — browse other club types we support out of the box.
Bring your hobby club online in under 30 minutes.
Start on the free plan, then take a 14-day free trial of paid features when you're ready — nothing to pay today, cancel any time before the trial ends.