All schools at this point are coming around to having it's own website. Many of those encourage their teachers to upload information regularly about their classes about due dates and reviews for upcoming tests. Some of these schools publish a list of the available clubs. Districts like mine allow clubs to have a website. If that is possible, go for it! You might even be the only club out of the other clubs with a website, but it doesn't matter. Some sponsors run the site themselves or they can let a student update the site.
If you are in a conservative district, I would recommend that you run the site yourself. Try to have a conversation with your principal letting them know about the site and the information posted. I have discovered that my principal appreciates when they are aware of information published before a community member complains. This allows them to be already prepared to respond. I would not follow the ask for forgiveness later advice on something like this.
The students can also have a say and suggest things to add. A few pages to include in the website would be a basic explanation of the club, some statistics on why the club is useful for student, local resources like PFLAG (family support group) or counseling resources associated with the school.
Lastly, I would be careful about adding options like allowing random readers to post comments. All it would take is one negative comment to wreck the kids' self esteem. Unless you wish to monitor a site regularly on top of the work you already do for your classes, then don't add these features or make certain that you'd be able to approve of a comment before it's published.
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