Hockey Moms & Dads turned hockey registrars have remained loyal to the concept of Community by still requiring a community league membership to participate in EMHA hockey. Joining the bandwagon this year is the Knight of Columbus who procured over $10,000 in membership sales.

Many of these memberships come from folks who might not normally purchase a community league membership so this is a great service the registrars offer our leagues. It is also a labour of love which requires a great deal of extra administrative work on their part and EFCL’s. 

The administration at EFCL has been busy tallying submissions, writing cheques, and accounting for this large amount of transactions. What was immediately recognizable is that we needed a system which would reduce the work load for all parties involved. After meetings and much discussion we decided to move forward with a new way to manage the memberships sold through hockey, rather than lose this great source of members. We wanted to improve the turn around of information and accuracy of membership prices and appropriate league. This combined with moving forward into the age of online accessibility, we will offer the following:

· Purchasers of memberships enter their address to find their appropriate league

· They then may contact the league personally or go ahead and select their type of membership, Family, Single, Senior etc. And proceed to order & submit payment.

· An email confirmation is sent to them as a temporary membership with a verifiable number for them to go ahead and register for hockey

· A corresponding email is sent to the community league that provides the new membership information

· The community league is then responsible to issue the new membership card and skate tags, and invite their new member to a meeting or to volunteer. 

· EFCL will reduce banking & administrative costs by remitting the funds to the leagues in an organized fashion every month or two on dates arranged ahead of time.

This process will not replace traditional membership campaigns, rather it assists hockey registrars to complete their growing registration tasks more easily, and continues to provide leagues with a new reservoir of funds and volunteers.