GRMA - GAA Membership Card programme providing benefits

[givehimaball]

Someone sent me along an email with a link to this thing.

It's a rewards program for members of GAA clubs, that is going to be active from the start of January, but you can register/sign up now.

grma.gaa.ie/

This is the about page.

A bit vague about what the rewards are but better than nothing I suppose.

grma (go raibh maith agat) is the new GAA Membership Card programme providing benefits and rewards to you, as a GAA member. It is a ‘thank you’ or ‘go raibh maith agat’ for your involvement in your GAA club, engagement in GAA activities and attendance at games.

Registration for the programme is now open with benefits available from January 2017. When you sign up, you will receive your Membership Card early next year enabling you to avail of partner discounts, special offers and earn points for going to games. Points can be redeemed by individual members or pooled for redemption by GAA clubs.

You will need a GAA membership number to join grma and receive a Membership Card. Please request your membership number at your club when you renew your subscription for 2017.

New club members will not have a GAA membership number until their club has registered them on the GAA Games Management System. The club will be able to provide a membership number once this registration step has been completed.

Membership Cards will only be distributed to members who have signed up to grma online. The programme is only available to adult members (over 18’s).

Visit our FAQ page if you have any further queries or contact the grma team.

[Jigz84]

Yea, very scatty and vague about the partners involved.

[Attacking Wing Back]

Absolutely no detail on the site. The rewards could only be free cups of tea etc. I presume this site / card is being used as a marketing vehicle for the GAA sponsorship partners. You can expect endless emails to your inbox.

Its a good way for a company to get access to the large database of GAA members. I presume Data Protection excludes them from using the actual GAA member database but, with this 'new' database they can target certain sectors.

[jackiel]

I signed up for it as a test case for our club, easy to register but you must know your membership number. There's nothing giving any indication of who the partners are or what the rewards are so I cant see many people rushing to sign up.
Initially I thought they'd tie it into the Registration System but it appears not which is good from a Data Protection standpoint. Time will tell if there's any real benefit to it but no harm if I get something extra for my €60 a year membership fee.