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Bournemouth Jazz Club: a home for members' presentations

A jazz appreciation society's website: monthly meetings explained for newcomers, and every presentation, newsletter and review kept in one place.

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Case study

Client
Bournemouth & District Jazz Appreciation Society
Sector
Music society
The challenge
The society's members prepare a presentation for every meeting, and send a newsletter after each one, but there was nowhere to keep them, and nothing to tell newcomers what an evening is like.
What I did
Web design and development, Content management
The outcome
The society had never had a website. Now it uploads its own newsletters through Sanity Studio and shares them with members.
Visit Bournemouth & District Jazz Appreciation Society’s website

The Bournemouth & District Jazz Appreciation Society meets on the second Wednesday of each month at Kinson Community Centre. It isn't a gig night: at each meeting three members each present 35 minutes of recorded jazz, anything from early Dixieland to modern jazz, with a break for tea and coffee. It has around 25 active members, and new visitors are welcome to come along for a free first evening.

What was needed

  • A clear welcome for newcomers: what happens at a meeting, where and when it is, and what it costs.
  • Somewhere to keep the presentations. Every meeting produces three, and members wanted to be able to look back at them.
  • The monthly newsletter, and members' album reviews, published alongside them.
  • A simple way to get in touch.

What I built

  • A single, phone-friendly page that explains the evening in plain terms, from the venue and times to the £4 entry that includes refreshments.
  • A library of over 75 presentations, with the newsletters and members' "My first album" reviews, each a PDF, in one place and easy to browse.
  • A contact form with spam protection, so newcomers can ask a question before their first visit.

The result

The society had never had a website. Now it has a modern one, and it uploads its own newsletters through Sanity Studio to share with members.

Some of the tools behind it need a refresh, so I'll be building the next version soon. I refresh my clients' sites every three years or so, but only when they need it.