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The Platform
Built for
UK Angling Clubs
Fishery websites, memberships, QR permits, coaching, match fixtures and holiday bookings — all in one place. Free if you don't charge.
Up and running in three steps
Create your club site
Add your logo, colours and pages. Your fishery or club gets a clean, SEO-ready website instantly — no developers needed.
See all featuresAdd sessions & tickets
List coaching blocks, permits and holiday bookings. Stripe payments and QR codes for lakeside bailiff validation, built in.
How ticketing worksGrow your club
Publish match reports, venue info and guides. Built-in schema markup means new members find you on Google without any extra effort.
Read SEO guidesA complete fishery website built for angling
Your club gets a custom-domain website with venue pages, match fixtures, club news, coaching schedules and a full page builder — all SEO-optimised from the moment you publish.
- Custom domain & full branding control
- Venue pages with maps, photos & species lists
- Match fixtures, leaderboards & peg draws
- Blog, news and guide publishing
- Schema markup, sitemaps & Open Graph built in


Sell permits online.
Validate lakeside with QR.
Day, night and season permits sold online via Stripe, paid directly to your club. Every ticket gets a unique QR code — bailiffs validate instantly from any smartphone. No paper, no spreadsheets.
- Day, night & season permits
- Stripe payments direct to your account
- QR codes for instant bailiff validation
- Fishing holiday & lodge bookings
- Ticket swap marketplace for members
Junior coaching and safeguarding,
handled properly
Block bookings with age filters, parent consent forms, medical notes and QR attendance registers. Every session is audit-ready for grant reporting and safeguarding requirements.
- Parent-managed junior accounts
- Digital consent forms & medical notes
- QR attendance registers per session
- CastForLife coaching programme integration
- Course completion & certificate tracking
Your club gets its own AI fishing assistant
Every Clubnest fishery comes with a built-in AI assistant that knows your waters, your species, and your rules. Members can ask for fishing advice, get venue recommendations, report fish health issues, and more — straight from your club site.
- ✓ Venue and peg recommendations based on species and conditions
- ✓ Draft social media posts, match announcements and newsletters
- ✓ Fish health guidance and Environment Agency reporting
- ✓ Tackle and bait suggestions for your specific waters
More than just
club management
We build the full stack for UK anglers — tools that work together, all owned by us.
AnglingAI
LIVEAI-powered fishing assistant. Species ID, venue advice, fish health and tackle tips — built into every Clubnest site and live at anglingai.co.uk.
CastForLife
OURSOur angling coaching and wellbeing platform. Structured courses, progress tracking and certification — integrated directly into your Clubnest site.
Clubnest App
iOS & AndroidSpecies ID, UK angling maps, catch logging, tide times and weather — angling tools in your pocket, on any device.
Built for every type of
angling organisation
Commercial Fisheries
Day tickets, QR bailiff tools, venue pages and lake-by-lake management.
Fishing Holidays
Lodge and cabin bookings with seasonal rates, deposits and Stripe payments.
Junior Clubs
Parent accounts, consent forms, safeguarding registers and age-filtered sessions.
Match Clubs
Peg draws, digital weigh-ins, auto-ranking leaderboards and series management.
Why clubs leave spreadsheets behind
Excel and WhatsApp groups work until they don't. Here's what Clubnest replaces.
Safeguarding & compliance
Consent forms, medical notes and audit trails in one secure place — not scattered across email threads and WhatsApp groups.
Growth & visibility
SEO-ready pages rank on Google. New members find your fishery, fixtures and venues without you lifting a finger.
Automation
Renewals, reminders, payments and registers run themselves — giving your volunteers time back for actual fishing.
Trusted by clubs who love
fishing, not admin
“Clubnest made managing our junior coaching super easy. Attendance is logged with QR in seconds, consent and medical notes are all in one place, and parents get instant confirmations. We spend less time on admin and more time helping kids fish.”
— Ray, Summerhayes Juniors
“Parents love how easy it is to book their kids onto sessions. Payments, reminders and digital tickets are automatic, and we can message everyone from one dashboard. It’s made us look so much more professional.”
— Kay, SYAC
“Clubnest helped us move everything online — tickets, coaching and memberships. The registers and edit history give us full traceability for safeguarding and grant reporting. Game changer for volunteers.”
— Dave, HAA
Clubnest is
FREE.
If your club runs free events, Clubnest costs nothing. If you take payments, we charge a 5% fee — and 2.5% of that goes directly back into grassroots angling.
Frequently asked questions
Most clubs are live in under 15 minutes. Register, upload your logo and publish your first pages.
Not if your events are free. If you take payments, we charge 5% (with 2.5% going to grassroots). No monthly fees.
Yes. Family accounts let one guardian manage multiple juniors and bookings.
Stripe processes all payments directly to your club's account. Clubnest never holds your funds.
Yes. Each ticket/permit has a unique QR code for instant lakeside validation.
Absolutely — with digital weigh-ins, peg draws and auto-ranking across series.
Extremely. Schema markup, canonicals, sitemaps and fast pages are built-in.
Yes — create venue pages with maps, photos, rules, access and booking links.
Email and live chat support, plus setup guides and onboarding help.
You do. Content, members and booking data belong to your club.
Clubnest is all three. It includes a fishery website builder for your public site, fishing club management software for day-to-day operations, and an angling membership system for sign-ups, renewals and payments — all connected.
Yes. Commercial fisheries use Clubnest to sell day, night and season permits online with QR codes for bailiff validation. You can create venue pages for each lake with maps, species lists, rules and booking links.
Yes. Fisheries with lodges, cabins or camping can set up holiday units with seasonal rates, deposit management (fixed, percentage or full), availability control and Stripe payments.
Absolutely. Syndicates benefit from waiting lists, private member dashboards, night permits, catch records and secure communications. No more managing your syndicate through WhatsApp groups.
Yes. The ticket swap marketplace lets members exchange permits between clubs and waters — a unique feature for associations and syndicates with multiple venues.
Yes. The built-in learning management system supports multi-step courses with quizzes, certificates and enrolment tracking — ideal for coaching qualifications, CastForLife programmes and angling education.
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Latest Guides for Angling Clubs
Step-by-step guides on coaching, match setup, QR permits, safeguarding and SEO — written for UK club administrators.
Guide
Unlock the secrets of your fishery with data. Discover how to collect, analyse and share catch reports with your members, and improve your club's management and decision-making.
Guide
Safeguard your club's waters from poaching and anti-social behaviour. Understand your legal options, bailiff powers and evidence gathering. Learn when to involve the authorities.
Guide
Boost your club's online presence without breaking the bank. Learn how to create a mobile-friendly website that attracts new members and ranks high on Google.
Clubs getting results with Clubnest
Real stories from UK clubs, fisheries and associations.
Case Study
In under a year, Summerhayes Juniors has boosted retention by 10%, grown organic search traffic by 40%, and secured new partnerships using Clubnest’s professional website, guides, and inventory tools.
Case Study
In less than a year, Somerset Youth Angling Club has used Clubnest to register over 150 parents and juniors, streamline safeguarding, simplify bookings, and grow website traffic by more than 500%. Discover how one grassroots club is using Clubnest to scale junior angling across Somerset.
Case Study
Since moving to Clubnest, The Gambling Angler has shipped better guides faster, made every page easier to find, and converted readers into booked sessions with a frictionless checkout. This is the playbook: the content architecture, publishing workflow and booking system that work together to grow search traffic and confirmed trips.
We'd love to hear from you
Questions about running your club on Clubnest? Send us a message.
Ready to modernise your
fishery or club?
No tech headaches. No paper forms. Just fishing, coaching and community — online. Whether you run a fishery, syndicate, holiday venue or angling club.