We have been using Beacon for 2 ½ years now and it has made a huge difference to the work of the Membership Secretary. Before Beacon we had a spreadsheet for member’s details.

When a new member joined we had to enter the same information several times into various documents, now the information only has to be entered once. If we wanted to email all our members, the same email had to be sent five times because we could only have fifty addresses in a group. Now all members can be emailed with a few clicks.

We are hoping to use the online payment process within Beacon for our renewals this year which should mean a lot less work for the Membership Secretary and the Treasurer.

Quite a few of our Group Co-ordinators now use Beacon to keep track of their group members. They can easily see if someone is not a member or if a member has forgotten to pay their subscription. They can also email the members of their group without having to enter their emails addresses into their own email provider.

Another major advantage of Beacon is the ease with which the role of Membership Secretary can be passed on to someone else. Even someone with limited computer skills.