This free Google Docs template helps a club, society or studio send a members' newsletter that people actually read. It is organised as one issue: a news page with four short briefs, an at-a-glance page of headline numbers, a dated list of key events, a spotlight story and a fixed send schedule. Each page leads with one clear point, so members can scan the issue in about two minutes.

The sample is a spring issue for Millrace Studio, a fictional members' club, with results, fixtures, committee news and a talk track for presenting the issue at the members' evening. Its names, figures and dates are invented. Replace the masthead, the lead story and the dates with your own, then send the issue on the same weekday each time so members come to expect it.