Great Start to the Year for Clubs & Societies
Tuesday 11 Nov 2008
It’s been another busy start to the year for Clubs & Societies as memberships have already passed 8,000 representing our most successful start to a College year ever!
Imperial’s largest Freshers’ Fair took place on the Tuesday of Freshers’ Week and since then our Clubs & Societies have been signing up new members at an amazing rate. Memberships are already up 16% on last year with 8,404 sold as of Monday 10 November. This time last year we had sold 7,198 and the year before that 5,405!
Most pleasing however is that almost three-quarters of memberships have been purchased online from imperialcollegeunion.org. Purchasing Club & Society memberships online benefits the Clubs & Societies Officers as well as the Union by immeasurably speeding up the time it takes to process every new membership. We are looking to even further streamline this process in the future by improving the payment process for potential new members.
Club & Society product sales have also increased as a result of the first full year of our online suite of tools for Club & Society Officers. Workbench enables the officers to manage the sales of their products quickly and easily. The take up of this has been much greater than we could have expected. As a result around £45,000 of online sales can be attributed to non-membership products made available by Clubs & Societies through Workbench.
Thanks again must go to all the Club & Society Officers for their hard work which goes into running all off these Clubs & Societies. And also to all the members that have already joined this year. Remember you can have a look at all the available Clubs & Societies (over 300!) online here or in our Clubs & Societies Handbook 2008/09 
here (3.5 MB).
