Join Our Club! How Self Storage Can Be A Gamechanger for Clubs and Organisations

Sharing The Passion

There’s an old Swedish saying that goes’ “A shared joy is a doubled joy”.

Everyone’s got a passion of some sort. Art, crafts, sport – and to share that passion with others makes the experience of embracing it, and enjoying it, twice as fulfilling. That’s why it’s so much more fun to put brush-to-canvas at your weekly art class, or head off into the countryside to photograph the Northern Lights with a few fellow snappers and then compare shots back at base.

Hobby clubs really make life richer. However, hobbies also come with a requirement for equipment – canvases and paints, cameras and tripods, bowls equipment, tools and materials. 

Many people simply don’t have the space at home to store all of these items for themselves, or on behalf of their club. Lugging equipment with them to group each week can mean that members who are elderly, have a disability or who take public transport can also find participation difficult – so the requirement for all of this stuff becomes prohibitive to setting up, keeping going and – most importantly – enjoying what a club can bring.

Could self-storage be the solution? Providing a safe, monitored space to store everyone’s belongings could open new opportunities, free up storage in members’ homes and grant much-needed peace of mind for valuable and sentimental items that are so important to pursuing the activity in question.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the ways in which clubs and organisations can benefit from making use of self-storage. 

Sports Clubs

So you’d love to set up a football or hurling club for the local kids – but seriously, where are you going to keep huge nets of balls, bags of team vests and stacks of cones in your house? 

Or your Active Retired group has expressed an interest in an indoor bowls league – but those bowls can be heavy to carry, and many of your members don’t drive – and who’s going to take care of that 45ft x 6ft bowling mat every week after you’ve played? Plus, your community meeting room is used for twenty other clubs and activities during the week so it’s got to be kept empty. So what do you do? Abandon the plan?

Or consider your self-storage options. There’s guaranteed to be a self-storage facility near you. 

You’d be surprised how affordable self storage can be and for a small cost, absorbed into membership fees, you can store the kit and even grant a few volunteers access to the unit, so they can pick up and put away the kit as they pass , making those hours of fun – and stiff competition – an enjoyable reality for all ages. 

Art Clubs

If your art or craft club hasn’t got a permanent home where members can safely leave their bulky – and expensive – kit between gatherings, a self storage unit can be a fantastic solution to facilitating and freeing up creative spaces. 

Art and Crafts can require tons of equipment – easels and canvasses of all sizes, paints, brushes, tools, clay, pottery wheels – the list is endless!

Instead of taking up space in people’s homes, a nearby self-storage unit can mean everything is locked away safely and securely when it’s not in use. 

And that goes for clubs who are fortunate enough to have a designated space for their meetings too – a self storage unit means that the painting easels can be put away during pottery week, or that the paints that you’ve bulk bought in a sale can be kept, ready and waiting for portrait week. 

Budding photographers can safely store expensive equipment, knowing that there’s 24-hour monitored security, strictly controlled access and smart technology systems keeping a close eye on that pricey, delicate equipment – that’s a huge sigh of relief, even if you do have the space at home for it all. 

Units can be set up in a way that everything is accessible to one or more members for whenever they’re needed – shelving and storage cabinets can be used, and of course self storage units come in a variety of sizes whether you’re thinking Last Supper or thumbnail portrait. Regardless of your creative vision, self-storage can take some of the mental load off to let your imagination run free!

Charitable Organisations

Non-profit organisations do so much for their communities but even the most streamlined schemes will need storage. Event and fundraising supplies, marketing materials, signage, seasonal equipment along with reams of paperwork. Sometimes donations like clothes or toys need to be stored and sorted following a charity drive before they’re distributed. A self-storage unit is a fantastic way to manage this, providing a convenient, low cost and secure solution, long or short-term, which frees up time and space for good deeds when its required. When space and money are at a premium, but people are in need, self-storage can be the ideal way to sort it all out. 

Club Admin

Every club and organisation has their own set of rules and, despite how eco-friendly we want to be, there’s always going to be paperwork.  Admin documentation like Articles of Association, Memorandums of Association and files full of meeting minutes which can’t be destroyed have to be kept safe somewhere. And what about archive materials such as photographs, awards, certificates and correspondence? If your club or organisation has a long history, it’s important to keep all that in good condition. 

Temperature-control is a feature well worth checking out if you’re thinking of using a self-storage unit for your paperwork and memorabilia, keeping those historic documents and artefacts safe from the ravages of heat, damp and the threat of mould and mildew. 

And, very importantly, investing a little time in creating an organised archive system in the unit could be well worth it for the ease of generations of treasurers, secretaries and chairpeople to come!

Temporary Relocation

Your club or organisation might be lucky enough to have a home of its own – a permanent clubhouse or meeting space. Maybe you even have a bar or canteen, changing rooms or a gift shop! Even in this case, it’s well worth keeping self-storage in mind as a temporary solution should you plan on redecorating, or have to conduct repairs. You might even find yourself in a position where you can move to somewhere bigger and brighter! Self storage units come in all sizes, no matter what you’ve got to store plus contracts can be long or short-term, depending on your needs. Isn’t it worthwhile to consider safely moving everything to one place while you move or change? It could certainly prevent those all-important items going missing or getting broken while away from their usual home? 

Keep Going!

It’s such a pity if people can’t keep up with their hobbies because they have nowhere to store equipment. And it’s a real loss to communities everywhere if storage space presents too much of a barrier to setting up new clubs. People always need to be together, and we can really benefit from the input, support and company of others so make sure to factor self-storage into your club plans to get maximum enjoyment out of whatever it is you love, and the people you love to do it with. 

Unlock the freedom of extra space. Get in touch with Storage World today or get a quote online.