Rural and membership organisations.
Boffins Ridge is a UK consultancy that works with two kinds of small organisation: countryside businesses and membership organisations such as trade associations. Sector knowledge is how we understand the problem before we talk about software.
Through decades of experience we have gravitated towards small businesses in the countryside and membership organisations. From the big picture to the small details, we have learnt how each sector actually runs, in the office, on the yard, and in a small secretariat.
The same CRM or booking product can be a good fit in one place and a poor one in another. A trade association with a few high-value member companies does not need the same join-and-renew path as a riding club. A farm shop taking seasonal bookings does not need the same diary as a year-round estate. We start from that difference.
Rural
Practical and pragmatic advice and systems for countryside businesses.
Explore ruralMembership organisations
Business and technology for industry membership organisations like trade associations.
Explore membershipRural and countryside organisations
Rural clients include clubs, venues, farms, estates and land-based operators. Typical work is memberships, bookings, permits, records and public-facing sites that still work when the team is outside and the signal is thin.
The useful question is rarely “which platform?”. It is who takes the booking, who keeps the list, what happens when someone does not turn up, and which records have to survive a change of volunteer or a wet Saturday.
Explore rural work for riding, shooting, fishing, farms and estates.
Membership organisations
Membership clients are usually industry bodies and trade associations: a small office speaking for a sector, with member companies, renewals, private resources, conferences and press. Off-the-shelf association software often assumes a large consumer club. That is not this work.
We help with the member CRM, applications and eligibility, subscription invoicing, the member area, events, and the secretariat workflows that keep a small team from holding everything in inboxes and spreadsheets.
Explore membership work covering CRM, renewals, member areas, events and secretariat.
What we do in both
In both sectors we do the same kinds of job: make the offer and the process clear, then put the right amount of technology underneath. That can be a written recommendation, a roadmap with budget, a system we design and build, or retained time each month.
We will not lock you into a proprietary platform. Where a product already fits, we say so. Where it does not, we design something the team can run. Technology is only worth implementing if it makes the organisation more efficient.
Starting prices for advice, roadmaps and builds are on the pricing page. Common questions are answered on the FAQ.
Not sure which sector you sit in?
Describe the organisation. We will tell you how we would start.