Guides

Practical guides for running a great club or society

Committees, volunteers, membership, money, reporting, match days and websites — written for the people who keep community clubs and student societies going.

Starting a club · 12 min read · 24 July 2026

How to build a sports club website (step-by-step guide)

Everything a committee needs to build a club website members actually use — what to include, how to structure it, domains, costs, and a checklist you can work through in an afternoon.

Read the guide →

Comparisons · 6 min read · 26 Aug 2026

The best badminton club management software, compared honestly

Badminton clubs need court booking, club-night caps, visitor payments and a pennant season in one place — a combination most club software only half covers. Here is how the realistic options differ, what each is genuinely built for, and the questions to ask before you commit.

Comparisons · 6 min read · 26 Aug 2026

The best boxing club management software, compared honestly

Boxing clubs are timetable businesses with a compliance obligation — class capacity, medicals, gradings and coach accreditation matter more than membership records. Here is how the realistic software options differ and what to test before committing a season.

Comparisons · 6 min read · 26 Aug 2026

The best cycling club management software, compared honestly

Cycling clubs are calendar-and-compliance operations — ride schedules, rider grades, waivers and race levies — which is a different shape from the team-sport products most club software is built around. Here is how the realistic options differ and what to test before you commit.

Running the club · 8 min read · 8 Aug 2026

Club committee task management: how to stop action items dying between meetings

Every committee meeting produces a list of things people agreed to do, and every next meeting opens with discovering which of them nobody did. Here is a task system that survives volunteers — capturing actions properly, the one-list rule, chasing without nagging, and the handover that doesn't lose a year of memory.

Membership & money · 7 min read · 8 Aug 2026

Club membership types and tiers: how to structure family, junior, social and life memberships

Most clubs never design their membership categories — they inherit them, and add one more every time a situation doesn't fit. Here is how to structure types deliberately — the six categories that cover almost every club, the family question, what each type should include, and how to prune the list you already have.

Digital & communication · 8 min read · 8 Aug 2026

The club software demo checklist — what to test in twenty minutes

A demo is only as useful as the questions you bring to it. This is the committee's twenty-minute test plan for any club platform — the screens to open, the buttons to press, the exports to demand — plus the difference between a guided sales demo and an open one you can drive yourself.

Compliance & safety · 8 min read · 8 Aug 2026

Emergency contact and medical forms for clubs — what to collect, and what not to

Clubs need to know who to call and what matters medically when a member goes down at training — but every extra question you ask is data you must protect. Here is what a club genuinely needs to collect, the questions to stop asking, who should see medical information, and how to keep it current without re-typing the roster every season.

Digital & communication · 8 min read · 8 Aug 2026

How to choose club management software (without regretting it by round 3)

Most clubs choose software under time pressure, off a feature list, with the decision made by whoever volunteered to look into it. Here is a calmer way — start from the jobs your committee actually does, ask the questions that separate platforms, and never sign up to anything you have not driven yourself first.

Membership & money · 7 min read · 8 Aug 2026

How to display sponsors on your club website (so they renew next season)

The logo strip at the bottom of the home page is where sponsorships go to die. Here is how to present sponsors so the value is real and renewals get easier — placement by tier, the sponsor page that sells for you, logo hygiene, and the screenshots that turn into next year's renewal email.

Digital & communication · 8 min read · 8 Aug 2026

How to report a bug in your club software (and what a good process looks like)

Something broke on registration night and a volunteer is staring at it. What happens next depends on two things — whether the report is written so an engineer can act on it, and whether the vendor has a process worth reporting into. Here is how to do your half well, and how to judge theirs.

Season & match day · 7 min read · 8 Aug 2026

How to sell tickets for a club event (presentation night, quiz night, season launch)

Ticketed events fund clubs and fill clubrooms, but the ticketing itself is where the volunteer hours vanish — cash floats, door lists, "I paid Deb at training". Here is how to run event tickets properly — pricing, selling online from your own site, early-bird tactics, the door list, and refunds without drama.

Comparisons · 8 min read · 8 Aug 2026

How to switch club management software without losing your data (or your volunteers)

Clubs stay on software they dislike for years because switching feels riskier than suffering. It isn't — if you run the move in the right order. Here is the full migration playbook — what to export, when to switch, how to move the members, the money and the website, and the traps that actually catch clubs.

Membership & money · 7 min read · 8 Aug 2026

How to track who has paid club fees (without a spreadsheet and a headache)

Every club has a version of the same awkward list — members who are playing, voting and borrowing kit while their fees sit unpaid. Here is how to keep a truthful who-has-paid picture all season — what a financial member actually is, the one-list method, and how to stop the tracking being a volunteer's whole job.

Digital & communication · 6 min read · 31 July 2026

Editing your club website with an AI assistant: a practical walkthrough

How AI website editing actually works for a club — the propose-review-apply loop, what a built-in site assistant can change (theme, navigation, pages, forms), how draft-only editing protects your public site, and the jobs where a human in the editor is still faster.

Digital & communication · 6 min read · 31 July 2026

Using AI to draft club newsletters and news (without losing your voice)

A working method for AI-drafted club communications — the facts-in, draft-out workflow, prompts that keep your club's voice, the review habits that catch AI mistakes before members see them, and why the send button should always belong to a person.

Running the club · 6 min read · 31 July 2026

AI for sports clubs: what it can actually do for your committee

A practical, hype-free guide to using AI in a volunteer-run club — what an AI assistant genuinely helps with (admin questions, drafting comms, building web pages), what it should never be allowed to do on its own, and how to set it up so a person always presses the final button.

Compliance & safety · 7 min read · 31 July 2026

The AI safety and privacy checklist for club committees

General information for committees adopting AI tools — the questions to ask any vendor about member data, the approval and audit rules that keep humans accountable, a simple club AI policy you can adapt, and the red flags that should stop a rollout.

Digital & communication · 7 min read · 31 July 2026

How to connect an AI assistant to your club data (safely)

A step-by-step guide to plugging an AI assistant like Claude into your club platform over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — what a connection token is, how scopes and expiry keep it safe, what the assistant can and cannot do once connected, and the questions to ask before you connect anything to member data.

Membership & money · 8 min read · 31 July 2026

Who pays for a club website? Sponsors, councils and community funding

Your club doesn't have to fund its own website. A practical guide to the people who will — local sponsors, councils, Community Bank branches and ClubGRANTS — with the exact ask for each, and an honest note on what grants won't cover.

Reports & analytics · 6 min read · 26 July 2026

Club AGM report template and running order

What has to be reported at a club annual general meeting, in what order, with a template for each report and the numbers to have ready before somebody asks from the floor.

Reports & analytics · 6 min read · 26 July 2026

Club attendance tracking — what to record and what it tells you

Attendance is the earliest warning a club gets about a member who is about to leave. Here is what to record at training, sessions and match day, how to capture it without slowing anyone down, and what the numbers actually predict.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

The monthly club committee report pack (a template that ends the guesswork)

A committee report template that turns the monthly meeting from a round of guesses into a decision-making session — the eight reports to include, who owns each one, and how to make the pack arrive before the meeting.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

Club financial reports explained (for committee members who are not accountants)

What each club financial report actually shows, how to read one in two minutes, and the four questions a committee member should ask about any set of numbers put in front of them.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

The 12 club KPIs worth tracking (and the ones that waste your time)

A practical club KPI dashboard — twelve measures that actually predict whether a club is healthy, how to define each one so it cannot be argued with, and the vanity metrics to leave out.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

The club member census — how to count your club properly

Every season your association, council or funding body asks how many members you have. This is how to produce a defensible count, what participation statistics they actually want, and how to stop the annual count taking a fortnight.

Reports & analytics · 9 min read · 26 July 2026

Club treasurer report template (with the numbers that matter)

A complete treasurer's report template for a club committee meeting — the five figures every report needs, the wording that stops arguments, and how to produce it in ten minutes instead of a weekend.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

GST and BAS for sports clubs — a plain-English orientation

General information on how GST and the business activity statement affect Australian community clubs — registration thresholds, what club income is typically taxable, and the records that make the quarterly BAS a ten-minute job.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

How to calculate your club's member retention rate (worked example)

The three retention formulas clubs actually use, worked through with real numbers, plus the definition traps that make two committee members compute different answers from the same roster.

Running the club · 21 min read · 26 July 2026

How to run a game development club

A game dev club exists to finish things, not to start them. How to build a calendar around shipping — jams that produce playable builds, skills nights that fix your team imbalance, showcases, and a written policy on who owns what.

Running the club · 18 min read · 26 July 2026

How to run a motocross club

Motocross is the most compliance-heavy club in community sport — a permit with conditions, a track that needs machinery every week, and neighbours who can close you down. Here is how to run track prep, practice days, noise management and the records that keep your permit.

Membership & money · 18 min read · 26 July 2026

How to set up donations for your club

Most clubs add a donate button, wait, and conclude that their community will not give. The button was never the problem — the ask was. Here is how to write an ask people can picture, where to put it, what records to keep, and how to turn a first gift into a standing one.

Reports & analytics · 6 min read · 26 July 2026

Reporting to your association or governing body without losing a weekend

Affiliation returns, participation counts and compliance declarations arrive every season with short deadlines. Here is what governing bodies actually ask for, how to prepare once and answer many times, and what a club is entitled to push back on.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

Sports club annual report template (that members will actually read)

A complete annual report structure for a community sports club — the sections, the numbers, the photographs, and how to produce it from records you already have instead of a fortnight of writing.

Reports & analytics · 7 min read · 26 July 2026

Tracking volunteer hours for grant applications

Funding bodies increasingly ask for volunteer hours and value them as in-kind contribution. Here is a light-touch way to capture them that volunteers will actually tolerate, and how to present the total credibly.

Membership & money · 20 min read · 25 July 2026

How to run a club gala dinner

A gala dinner is the only club fundraiser that can lose money spectacularly, because you commit to the costs months before anyone buys a seat. Here is the break-even maths to do before you sign the venue contract, how to sell tables rather than seats, and a run sheet that keeps the night moving.

Running the club · 19 min read · 25 July 2026

How to run a fighting game community

A weekly local is an arithmetic problem wearing a hoodie — entrants, setups and a bracket that has to finish before the venue closes. How to run weeklies, own your kit, negotiate a venue deal and moderate a scene people actually come back to.

Running the club · 20 min read · 25 July 2026

How to run a mountain bike club

A mountain bike club's real product is trail — dirt it builds, maintains and almost never owns. This covers land-manager agreements and the dig crew, ride grading and ride leaders, shuttle days and enduros, and the trail fund that pays for all of it.

Running the club · 18 min read · 24 July 2026

How to run a BMX club

A BMX club is one weekly event repeated forty times. This is the operating manual — the race-night run sheet, motos and gate marshals, grading and plates, the working bees that keep the track rideable, and the canteen that quietly pays for the lights.

Membership & money · 20 min read · 24 July 2026

How to run a club golf day fundraiser

A golf day is a sales event wearing a polo shirt. Get the field size, the team price and the hole sponsorship right and it is the most dependable corporate fundraiser in club sport — plus the best sponsor-recruiting day in your calendar.

Running the club · 19 min read · 24 July 2026

How to run a sim racing club

A sim racing league lives or dies on whether its results are trusted. How to build a season that finishes, run race control on the night, judge incidents with a process that survives a title fight, and publish standings nobody can argue with.

Membership & money · 20 min read · 23 July 2026

How to run a club auction night

An auction night is the highest-yield evening a club can run and the easiest one to bungle in public. Here is how to source lots that will actually bid, set reserves that protect the people who donated them, run the bidding, and get every lot paid for before the lights come on.

Running the club · 25 min read · 23 July 2026

How to run a retro gaming club

A retro gaming club is a collection with a membership attached. How to catalogue, insure and move shared hardware, run a repair bench that is actually safe, and turn public retro events into members who stay.

Running the club · 22 min read · 23 July 2026

How to run a skateboarding club

Skate clubs live at a park they do not own, with no gate, no keys and no captive audience. Here is how to turn a scene into a club — the land-manager relationship, coaching and consent, jams that fund the year, and membership that suits a drop-in sport.

Running the club · 21 min read · 22 July 2026

How to run a climbing club

Most climbing clubs own no wall and no crag, which makes them a buying club, a competency register and a trip organiser all at once. Here is how to negotiate a gym partnership, keep belay sign-offs current, and run outdoor meets that come home in one piece.

Membership & money · 20 min read · 22 July 2026

How to run a club crowdfunding campaign

Crowdfunding only works when the ask is specific, the deadline is real, and a chunk of the total is already pledged before anyone outside the committee hears about it. Here is how to pick a fundable project, set the target, run the pre-launch, and deliver what you promised.

Running the club · 16 min read · 22 July 2026

How to run a mahjong club

Four to a table, several living rule traditions, and a room where some players learned from a grandmother and some from an app. A practical guide to house rules, tile sets and storage, session sign-ups and teaching nights that fill your tables.

Running the club · 17 min read · 21 July 2026

How to run a bridge club

Directors, movements, results and masterpoints — plus the partner problem and a renewal plan for a membership that gets a year older every year. A practical guide to running a bridge club whose tables stay full.

Running the club · 21 min read · 21 July 2026

How to run an archery club

Range layout and shooting-line discipline, a range officer roster that does not depend on one person, beginner courses that actually convert into members, loan equipment that comes back, and an indoor season worth planning for.

Membership & money · 18 min read · 21 July 2026

How to win back lapsed club members

The people who did not renew are the cheapest members your club will ever recruit — but only if you work out why each of them left before you write a word. Reason codes, a sequence that does not lead with a discount, and the exit survey that stops the next round.

Comparisons · 17 min read · 20 July 2026

Club newsletter vs social media — where does news belong?

Social reaches the interested, email reaches the enrolled, and your website is what both should point back to. Here is the reach and half-life of each channel, a publish-once workflow that stops you writing everything three times, and the archive problem a feed quietly creates.

Running the club · 19 min read · 20 July 2026

How to run a chess club

Ratings, Swiss pairings, time controls, arbiters and a junior program that eventually produces your next committee. A practical guide to running a chess club that fills its boards on a weeknight and is still standing in five years.

Membership & money · 18 min read · 20 July 2026

How to run a membership drive

A membership drive is not a burst of posting — it is a four-week operation with a named owner for each week. Here is the plan, the offers that convert, the channels worth a volunteer's time, and the follow-up that turns enquiries into paid members.

Membership & money · 21 min read · 19 July 2026

How to price family memberships

A family cap wins households and quietly reshapes your revenue. Here is how to choose between a cap and a sibling ladder, size the discount against your own roster, define family in a way that survives modern households, and run it without hand-editing invoices.

Running the club · 19 min read · 19 July 2026

How to run a trading card game club

Weekly events, Swiss pairings, prize support and a trading culture that stays safe for juniors. A practical guide to running a TCG club that fills its tables week after week without burning out the person who organises it.

Comparisons · 22 min read · 19 July 2026

Spreadsheet fixtures vs competition software

A draw held in a spreadsheet works beautifully until the week a round is washed out, a team withdraws and someone disputes the ladder. Here is exactly where manual fixtures break, how byes and forfeits should recalculate, and where results need to end up to be seen.

Season & match day · 10 min read · 19 July 2026

The wet weather communication plan every club needs

A decision tree for calling off training and games, a channel escalation ladder that actually reaches everyone, and copy-paste template messages — so a washout never turns into a hundred phone calls.

Membership & money · 19 min read · 18 July 2026

How to run a membership renewal campaign

A dated six-touch renewal sequence, the three segments that need different messages, and how to measure renewal rate properly so you can find the leak instead of guessing at it.

Running the club · 19 min read · 18 July 2026

How to run a tabletop roleplaying game club

A roleplaying club's capacity is not its room, its budget or its membership list — it is the number of people willing to run a game. How to form tables, run sign-up rounds, handle session zero properly, and recruit game masters who stay.

Comparisons · 21 min read · 18 July 2026

Printed membership cards vs digital passes

Plastic cards feel like belonging and cost a print run plus every replacement, every reprint and every hour spent handing them out. Digital passes update themselves. Here is the real cost per member, what actually gets verified at the gate, and how to keep the ceremony without the plastic.

Running the club · 18 min read · 17 July 2026

Club volunteer induction and training

A thirty-minute induction agenda that works for any club role, a register that tracks who has been screened and trained, and the refresher and upskilling path that turns a Saturday helper into next year's committee.

Running the club · 21 min read · 17 July 2026

How to run a tabletop wargaming club

Wargaming clubs are asset-heavy in a way almost no other hobby club is — terrain, mats, boards and crates that live in somebody's garage until they do not. How to build, store and insure your table stock, and run leagues and tournaments around it.

Societies & campus clubs · 45 min read · 17 July 2026

How to run a university music society

Choirs, orchestras, bands and a cappella groups all hit the same walls — rehearsal rooms, instrument hire, sheet music, subs and a concert that has to cover its own hall fee. How music societies plan a year that ends in the black.

Comparisons · 17 min read · 17 July 2026

Season pass vs single-event tickets

A season pass is not really a ticket product — it is a financing product. Here is the break-even maths that sets the price, how the cash lands across the year, the pass-holder perks that cost nothing, and how to sell both without turning your gate into a queue.

Running the club · 18 min read · 16 July 2026

How to run a board game club

The bottleneck in a board game club is never tables — it is people willing to teach. How to build and lend a club library, greet newcomers properly, and run session sign-ups so the room fills without anyone standing in the doorway.

Running the club · 19 min read · 16 July 2026

How to organise a club tour or away trip

Costing and deposits, rooming lists, supervision ratios, medical forms and the emergency plan — how to organise a club tour or away trip that people talk about for years for the right reasons.

Comparisons · 19 min read · 16 July 2026

Membership tiers vs one flat fee — how to price

Tiers capture more revenue and cost you clarity. A flat fee is honest and leaves money on the table. Here is the arithmetic on the same member base, what each extra category really costs in volunteer hours, and a three-tier default that suits most clubs.

Comparisons · 20 min read · 15 July 2026

The best apps for sports clubs in 2026, by category

An honest, category-by-category guide to the essential apps for club committees — all-in-one club platforms, team comms, membership tools, design, accounting and rostering — with real products compared fairly, current as at July 2026, and advice on building a stack that volunteers can actually run.

Season & match day · 10 min read · 15 July 2026

How to livestream local sport — cheap setups that actually work for clubs

A practical guide to livestreaming club sport on a volunteer budget — phone-and-tripod setups that work, what to spend money on (and what to skip), choosing a streaming platform, and embedding the stream on your club website.

Running the club · 20 min read · 15 July 2026

How to run a club committee election

Nominations, eligibility, ballot methods and a clean handover — a step-by-step process for running a club committee election that stands up even when the result is close and the losing side is unhappy.

Season & match day · 24 min read · 15 July 2026

How to run a LAN party

A LAN is not a games night with extra chairs — it is a small events-production job with a load budget, a network build and a seat map. How to plan power, tickets, seating and an overnight duty of care so the night runs clean.

Societies & campus clubs · 38 min read · 15 July 2026

How to run a professional or learned society

Professional and learned societies sit between a club and an institution — paid memberships, chapters, a conference, a journal, CPD records and a council that meets quarterly. How a volunteer-run society handles all of it without a secretariat.

Comparisons · 19 min read · 15 July 2026

Raffle vs auction — which fundraiser suits your club?

A raffle sells to a crowd you never have to gather. An auction sells to a room you do. Here is how the two compare on revenue per volunteer hour, on the local relationships each one builds or burns, and on the compliance questions to settle before you print a single ticket.

Comparisons · 23 min read · 14 July 2026

Club shop vs a third-party merch store

Print-on-demand takes the stock risk off your hands and most of the margin with it. Running your own shop reverses both. Here is the maths on 100 hoodies each way, the sell-through number where the answer flips, how to order a size curve that does not leave you with a box of smalls, and why bundling merch into registration outsells any storefront.

Running the club · 16 min read · 14 July 2026

How to run a club bar

General guidance on the compliance, stock and rostering realities of pouring drinks at a community club — the licensing questions to put to your regulator, the margin that actually funds the club, and cash handling that protects your volunteers.

Running the club · 19 min read · 14 July 2026

How to run a gaming club

A gaming club has to satisfy console players, PC players and tabletop players in one room, in one three-hour window. Here is how to program the night, sort out venue, power and the equipment library, and write a code of conduct your volunteers will actually enforce.

Running the club · 17 min read · 13 July 2026

How to manage club uniform orders without losing money

Pre-order windows, sizing samples, minimum runs and the box of unsold smalls that haunts every uniform coordinator. A repeatable process for taking uniform orders, collecting the money before you commit, and clearing what is left.

Societies & campus clubs · 41 min read · 13 July 2026

How to run an alumni association

Alumni associations run on goodwill and a contact list that decays 20% a year. How to keep records current, run reunions people travel for, offer memberships worth paying for, and raise money without becoming the university's fundraising arm.

Running the club · 19 min read · 13 July 2026

How to run an esports club

An esports club is a sports club whose ground is a server. Here is how to handle tryouts and multi-title rosters, run an online season with ladders and a forfeit policy that holds, and take player welfare seriously without killing the fun.

Comparisons · 23 min read · 13 July 2026

Native app vs web app for clubs — the honest trade-off

A store app is not a purchase, it is a subscription to obligations — developer accounts, review submissions, operating-system updates and privacy declarations that never stop arriving. Here is the four-year cost, what an installable web app can and cannot match, and how push notifications really compare.

Running the club · 16 min read · 12 July 2026

Crisis communication for clubs

A serious incident, an allegation or a sudden closure — the first two hours decide how the next two months go. A holding-statement template, an authorised-spokesperson rule, the order you tell people, and the things clubs say that make it worse.

Running the club · 20 min read · 12 July 2026

How to run a parkour club

Parkour clubs are judged before they are understood. Here is how to build coaching progressions and risk-graded sessions, negotiate training in public space, and handle waivers, minors and parent expectations without losing what makes the sport good.

Comparisons · 24 min read · 12 July 2026

SMS vs email for club updates — what to send where

Cost per message is the wrong way to pick a channel. The right question is what it costs the club when a member misses the message. Here is a triage table for every kind of club update, the consent rules that differ by channel, and why push notifications are the middle ground most committees never switch on.

Running the club · 19 min read · 11 July 2026

How to run a club across multiple venues

Two grounds, three halls or a merged club — running one club in several places quietly eats more committee time than anything else. How to split ownership site by site, publish venue information people actually trust, and keep keys, gear and rosters straight.

Societies & campus clubs · 26 min read · 11 July 2026

How to run a postgraduate society

A postgraduate cohort has no shared year, no shared timetable and very little spare week. How to build a society for research students, coursework masters, parents and people with full-time jobs — programming, representation, welfare, and a handover that never happens all at once.

Running the club · 20 min read · 11 July 2026

How to run an open water swimming club

Open water clubs live or die on the head count. Here is how to run sign-on, buddy groups, water safety craft, the conditions call and a full event swim — plus the records that protect your committee when something goes wrong.

Comparisons · 24 min read · 11 July 2026

One-off website build vs a subscription club platform

A custom build looks like the cheap option in year one and the expensive one in year four. Here is the three-year ledger both ways, who is responsible for patching and backups once the invoice is paid, and how to make sure the club owns its content whichever way the vote goes.

Comparisons · 21 min read · 10 July 2026

DIY vs done-for-you club website — which route fits your committee?

Both routes end with a site the club owns. They differ in who spends the hours, how long the club waits for something live, and whether anyone is still updating it in eighteen months. Here is the honest hours ledger for each, plus the hybrid most committees actually want.

Running the club · 22 min read · 10 July 2026

How to prevent volunteer burnout at your club

Burnout is a design problem, not a character problem — too few people holding roles nobody ever wrote down. Here are the four warning signs, how to split a hero role into three doable ones, and the term limits and deputies that keep good people for a decade.

Running the club · 20 min read · 10 July 2026

How to run a walking football club

A sport defined by a negative rule, run for people who want to keep playing rather than keep up. Session run sheets, refereeing the no-running rule without ruining the mood, recruiting through health services, and the warm-up that keeps calves intact.

Societies & campus clubs · 40 min read · 10 July 2026

How to run an international student society

International student societies do the work a university brochure promises — the airport pickup, the first-week friendships, the festival that fills a hall. How to run one across languages, time zones and a membership that changes completely every year.

Membership & money · 11 min read · 9 July 2026

Club budget template: budgeting and treasurer reports for sports clubs

A copy-ready sports club budget template with income and expense categories, a monthly treasurer report outline, and the habits that keep a volunteer treasurer sane — cash reserves, reconciliation and handover.

Running the club · 19 min read · 9 July 2026

How to run an all-abilities sports club

Inclusion is an operating model, not a policy paragraph. How to audit access across venue, transport, information and cost, build individual participation plans and support ratios that hold up, and fund an inclusive program past its first grant.

Running the club · 20 min read · 9 July 2026

How to run online committee meetings well

Online committee meetings can be shorter and better attended than the ones in the clubroom — or a slow-motion disaster. The difference is process. Quorum and valid voting, a timed agenda, hybrid setups that work, and what to do about recordings.

Comparisons · 19 min read · 9 July 2026

Volunteer sign-up sheet vs rostering — when to graduate

A shared sign-up sheet is honestly good software, right up until about thirty shifts a season. Past that it stops reflecting reality and nobody notices until a shift goes unfilled. Here is how to count where your club sits, what actually changes when you cross the line, and how to move without losing the volunteers you have.

Comparisons · 21 min read · 8 July 2026

External ticketing site vs ticketing built into your club site

Sending buyers off-site costs you the booking fee, the attendee list and the chance to turn a ticket buyer into a member. Here is how to read a fee structure properly, what happens to the data after the event, and how the door actually runs on the night.

Showing the 96 newest of 387 guides — pick a category above to see the other 291.

Put the admin on autopilot

ClubHelix is the club website builder with membership, payments, events and competitions built in.

Start free