Services for Australian Rural & Remote Allied Health

SARRAH represents allied health professionals working in some of the most remote parts of Australia — physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, and others delivering care where most metropolitan services don't reach. The membership body's website was running on Drupal with CiviCRM handling memberships and donations. Drupal was the part that had become a problem; CiviCRM was the part nobody could afford to lose.

CiviCRM holds years of member records, donation history, event registrations, and communications data — the operational heart of the organisation. A clean break from CiviCRM was off the table. The migration brief therefore split into two pieces: retire Drupal in favour of a CMS that was easier to maintain (Joomla), and re-integrate CiviCRM into the new platform without disturbing the database underneath.

The build delivered both halves. The Joomla front end carries a new visual direction across the public site and the members-only content area, with proper content gating so that members get access to the resources their subscription pays for and the rest of the site stays open to the broader rural and remote health community. Underneath, CiviCRM continues to handle memberships, donations, and the operational side — same data, same workflows, no transition pain for the people relying on it.