Supporting Your Organisation

ClubHub is the public gateway into the Community Exchange ecosystem, helping independent organisations become more visible, discover new opportunities, build trusted relationships and collaborate whilst remaining completely independent.

Organisations participating in Community Exchange may choose to use Agoria, an optional Content Management System (CMS) and community management platform that provides practical tools for websites, memberships, events and communications. Equally, organisations may continue to use their own existing websites, management systems and online services whilst participating fully in Community Exchange.

Whether you are a small volunteer-led group, a community association, a sports club, a charity, a business or a larger community network, Agoria helps reduce administration whilst allowing organisations to remain in control of their own information, activities and identity.

Core Capabilities

Agoria provides a flexible set of tools that can be configured to meet the needs of many different types of organisation. Typical capabilities include:

• Creating and managing your own website
• Publishing news and information
• Organising events and activities
• Membership administration
• Online membership renewals and payments
• Role-based administration and delegated responsibilities
• Group and sub-group management
• Member communications and mailing lists
• Shared calendars and activity planning
• Document and information publishing
• Supporting networks of groups and sub-groups

Because every organisation is different, Agoria can be configured to suit local requirements whilst remaining connected to the wider Community Exchange ecosystem.

Growing with Your Organisation

Community Exchange recognises that organisations naturally evolve over time.

A local club may develop specialist sections, project teams or new activities. Community organisations may establish partnerships with other groups, whilst larger organisations may create regional or national networks.

The flexible Community Exchange structure allows organisations to grow naturally without changing their identity or governance. Agoria supports this growth through flexible group management, allowing organisations to create additional groups and sub-groups as their activities develop. This flexibility enables organisations to respond to changing needs without restructuring their entire online presence.

Open by Design

Community Exchange has been designed as an open ecosystem rather than a closed platform. Rather than seeking to replace existing websites and systems, Community Exchange helps connect them through a shared community framework.

Organisations are free to:

• maintain their own websites;
• use Agoria or alternative software;
• link to existing online resources;
• manage their own content and information;
• decide how much of their activity they wish to manage within Community Exchange.

Community Exchange provides the shared framework that enables organisations to discover one another, build trusted relationships and collaborate more effectively, whilst leaving each organisation free to retain ownership of its own identity, systems and content.

This combination of independence, flexibility and collaboration helps organisations strengthen both their own communities and the wider Community Capital of the networks in which they participate.