Sports en Français is a small but mighty provincial sport organization dedicated to delivering French-language sport programming in Winnipeg, Manitoba. With a tight-knit team, every hour counts, which is why finding the right tools to support their operations isn’t just a convenience; it’s a necessity.
Over the past two years, Sports en Français has made Activity Messenger central to its registration, communication, newsletter, and contract signing processes.
As Executive Director Chantal Young puts it: « Jokingly, we say Activity Messenger is our third team member, because it makes us way more efficient. It saves us a FULL DAY of work every week. »
Running sports programs with a small team means every administrative task carries extra weight. For Sports en Français, managing registrations, participant communications, newsletters, and contracts across multiple tools wasn’t just inefficient; it was pulling the team away from their core mission of delivering French-language sport programming.
With limited bandwidth, the cost of clunky admin processes wasn’t measured in dollars. It was measured in time that could have been spent on their community. Knowing this, Chantal and her team looked for a solution that could help them achieve everything in one unified software. That’s when they found Activity Messenger.
The shift to Activity Messenger’s automatically updated registration lists has entirely eliminated a frustrating manual workflow. Rather than cycling through repeated downloads and reconciliations, the team now has a live view of participant data at all times.
The result? A full day saved every week.
« We used to have to download Excel sheets, and every time there were new participants, we had to download again. Now just having an automatically updated list — just being way more efficient — has saved us like a day a week. »
Beyond registration, Sports en Français uses Activity Messenger to handle participant communications, their monthly newsletter, and contract signing, consolidating what might otherwise require several different platforms into a single tool that their team can easily manage.
With Activity Messenger, creating their newsletter has transformed from time-consuming to quick and intuitive:
The result is a modern, eye-catching design that reflects the organization and its mission without requiring a dedicated designer.
The process is even simpler than it sounds. Watch Olivier walk through creating and sending a newsletter with Activity Messenger and Canva:
Plus, keeping participants informed is no longer a separate task. The Sports en Français team can send targeted email and SMS messages directly from their Activity Messenger dashboard:
Reaching the right participants at the right time is just a few clicks away. Watch how bulk SMS works in Activity Messenger, whether it’s a camp, a program, or a specific age group:
« We were wasting a lot of time, but we’ve been able to get that time back and offer more programming. »
When a small team can save hours of manual admin work every week, that energy can go somewhere meaningful. For Sports en Français, it goes directly into developing new programs, reaching more families, and deepening their impact in the Francophone community.
Every user-friendly registration form, every newsletter that goes out in a few clicks, and every contract that’s digitally signed equals more time dedicated to their mission.
For a small organization with a big mandate, Activity Messenger has become more than a software subscription — it’s a core part of how Sports en Français operates and grows.
As they continue expanding their French-language programming, having a reliable, all-in-one tool means their team can stay focused on their community rather than their admin.
