Hi Jen, starting an offical club can be a lot of work and includes a lot of paper work, rules, regulations, insurance and needs some dedicated members to keep it all running.
Best to start a group with a free google or yahoo web site and a facebook group page, then if you can find enough commited people you might be able to form a registered club.
Here's a link to our Mackay groups web page, its a pretty casual group but is a great contact place for our local astro enthusiasts (we managed to get around 20 people and 7 scopes to meet out of town last sat night)
http://tropicalstargazers.webs.com/
Rick