Clubaroo The Story

The idea for Clubaroo first came about when my eleven-year-old daughter was looking for music lessons; we couldn’t find any locally using search engines and, in the end, we finally found a class through local recommendation.

Previously, I had the same problem finding a veterans football team I could join.

There had to be a better way!

Over the coming months, I carried out extensive research into leisure activities and where they advertise their information. I found that there are thousands of amazing clubs, classes and hobbies in every county, but they had a real problem recruiting new members and participants.

It was clear that there needed to be a new resource to bring both clubs and people together. So, the concept was born. At this point, we hadn’t come up with a name, and after much deliberation over a few days, my daughter just came out of nowhere with Clubaroo. We knew straight away that it was the perfect name for our new enterprise.

We then needed to identify what clubs we’d cover. It was a real shock seeing how many amazing clubs, classes and hobbies were out there and how we could help to connect people with them. There are of course all your standard activities such as football or swimming, but there are also great activities you may not have considered or even heard of such as bell ringing and pickleball.

It was vital that Clubaroo offered them all. The other challenge we faced was identifying the users of the site and ensuring that there were clubs for every age group, every gender and every ability.

This was really important to us as we wanted to offer a service that would truly work for everybody.

It’s totally free to use Clubaroo and it’s also free for clubs to advertise (this includes full contact information including weblink, description about their club and up to 3 images). We also regularly promote clubs on our social media platforms.

Over the last few months, we have built the website, started adding clubs and have started telling people that we are here and ready to get them out there trying new things.

If you or anyone you know wants to try something new locally or if you’d like to advertise your club then visit us at: www.clubaroo.co.uk.