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Running and using a club, including junior clubs
112 articles in this category
Using your club
Understanding Your Membership Status
Learn about the different membership statuses and what they mean for your club access
4 min readMembersUpdated 2026-05-10
Teams and Rosters
View your team assignments, understand team rosters, and connect with your teammates
4 min readMembersUpdated 2026-06-15
Club Announcements
Stay up to date with news from clubs you follow or belong to
6 min readMembersUpdated 2026-06-08
Club Resources
Access club documents, guides, and shared resources available to members
4 min readMembersUpdated 2026-05-10
My Clubs
See every club you belong to, every application you've submitted, and every invitation waiting for a response
4 min readMembersUpdated 2026-07-22
Booking a session ahead of time
Reserve your spot at a capacity-limited club night or one-off event. Member bookings are free; visitor bookings may need a guest fee paid in advance.
4 min readMembersUpdated 2026-07-07
Leaving a Club
How to remove your membership from a single club without affecting your other clubs
3 min readMembersUpdated 2026-05-06
Running your club (committee)
The club Action Centre
One page for everything that needs a decision or an action from your committee: your actions plus live club status.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-05
Find Players
Search players in your area who've opted in to being found by clubs, and send them an invitation in a couple of taps
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-10
The Documents vault
Store minutes, policies, rules, forms and posters in one place, with version history, visibility controls and automatic review reminders.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-10
Managing Finances
Learn how to track payments, manage payment requests, log visitor fees, generate reports, and run the treasurer's report
12 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-04-23
Publishing Open Sessions to Find-a-Game
Publish a club-hosted open session on Find a Game to recruit drop-in players, with the club's age policy applied automatically
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-15
Pre-book sessions with capacity, waitlist and pre-pay
Set a hard cap on an event, let members book in advance, optionally take payment up front, and watch the peg-board fill from confirmed bookings.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-23
Committee tasks and governance obligations
Run the committee, not just the badminton. Assign tasks, group them into projects, and keep on top of recurring duties like affiliation, insurance and the AGM.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-09
Inviting a guest to a session
Approve a visitor's visit request onto a capacity session as an invitation they confirm or decline, choose the fee, and track booked, invited and waitlisted guests in the event's Bookings panel.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-09
Taking payments: Stripe, GoCardless and beyond
Connect your own Stripe and GoCardless accounts, set sensible defaults per payment type, issue refunds, and understand why Badminton Clubhouse never sees your money.
7 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-23
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Analytics Overview
Access reports and insights about your club including attendance, player stats, and custom member breakdowns
1 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-02-22
Attendance Report
Track club session attendance over time with summary statistics, charts, and member-level engagement reporting
6 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-22
Insights: Badminton England-aligned metrics
Cross-tenant participation, engagement, junior pathway, EDI, and geographic coverage. The numbers BE and Sport England fund against.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-17
Player Stats
Track player statistics, win rates, partnerships, and session history from club sessions
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-02-26
Report Builder
Build custom reports to break down your membership by gender, status, level, team, tag, or custom fields
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-02-22
Event Attendance Reports
See who attended every kind of event from the attendance registers, per event and per person, with CSV export
2 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-20
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Managing the Club Calendar
Learn how to create, edit, and manage events on the club calendar
17 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-22
Running an Event: Team and Register
Build a team to run your event, set DBS and training requirements per role, and take the attendance register on the day
11 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-08-01
The Event Launchpad: Starting an Event
Open an event from the dashboard and kick it off in one tap: start a peg board, take the register, or manage the team, depending on the event
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-08-02
Inviting Members to Events
Send event invitations to individual members or by tag, and track responses
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-04-13
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Running Club Sessions
Learn how to manage live badminton sessions with the peg board and court management system
15 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-18
Club Session Analytics
Player statistics and game history from club sessions have moved to the Analytics section
1 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-02-22
Running Club Night on Your Phone
Mobile-first peg-board guide, work the queue, courts, and bookings from the door with one hand
7 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-09
The Junior Register at Club Night
Run a safe junior session, the supervision gate, medical flags, guardian contact, and collection sign-out
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-16
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Communications Overview
Learn how to communicate with your club members through email and announcements
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-01-26
Email Templates
Learn how to create and manage email templates for consistent club communications
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-02-01
Push Notification Templates
Customise the short messages that appear on members' devices when the club sends notifications.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-04-23
Email Audit Status (sent / failed / queued)
Understand what each status means in the per-club email history and audit log
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-06
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Competitions overview
Understand the competition model: organisers, entry modes, formats, and how tier capabilities map onto what your competition can do.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-05
Managing association seasons
Define the seasons your association runs, with registration deadlines, transfer windows, and a public key dates page.
7 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-13
Creating a competition
Step-by-step guide to the create-competition wizard: pick what you're running, then follow the steps for that kind.
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-10
Entering teams into competitions
Send a team entry request to a competition organiser, approve or reject requests as an organiser, and pay entry fees to confirm.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-14
Creating a league
Step-by-step guide to spinning up a multi-team league competition with stages, divisions, and rules.
9 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-03
Managing divisions
Add, order, and configure divisions within a league stage, including promotion and relegation counts.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-20
Adjudicating a contested match
How to review and adjudicate a contested match-card: read the contest reason, re-enter the score, write your decision, and optionally apply a penalty.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-04
Importing fixtures from a CSV
Bulk-import a season of fixtures from a spreadsheet using the CSV import dialog on the Fixtures tab.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-20
Setting handicaps for a competition
How to assign signed handicaps to entrants, seal or open them, re-rate a value, and read raw vs net results once matches are played.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-05
Locking the roster for a competition
How to lock in the players eligible for a team's entry into a competition, so match-card validation has a stable per-competition roster.
3 min readCommittee, MembersUpdated 2026-05-20
Penalty rules
How penalty points work, how to apply them from the Adjudication tab, and how to rescind a penalty you applied in error.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-04
Running a self-arranged competition
Set fixtures to self-arranged so opponents fix their own date, chase them automatically, resolve walkover claims, and assign competition officers.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-05
Grouping competitions into a series and running a finals night
How to create a competition series, attach sections, take one combined entry fee, and assign the section finals to a shared finals night.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-01
Registering players for an association season
How associations view the registered player pool, and how club admins register their members into an open season.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-16
Player transfers, team entry fees, and the season hub
How to process player transfer requests between clubs, set per-team competition entry fees, and use the association season hub to monitor club and player payment status.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-16
Creating a knockout competition
Set the seeding order, generate the draw, and understand how the public draw page displays it.
7 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-04
Self-serve entries and entry flags
How members enter singles and doubles competitions themselves, the warn flags you see on the entries list, and the committee late-entry escape hatch.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-10
Put your competition on the venue TV
Open a full-screen, auto-refreshing display of a public competition on a hall TV or projector, and curate which panels it rotates through.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-12
Creating a round robin
Set the Structure step, assign entrants to the group, and generate the all-play-all fixtures.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-08
Running a box league
Deal entrants into boxes, generate each box's self-arranged fixtures, and publish the public box grid.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-08
Running a challenge ladder
Set the challenge range and response window, seed the starting order, and see how positions settle themselves.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-08
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GDPR Right to Erasure (Art. 17): committee playbook
How to fulfil a right-to-erasure request on behalf of a member as the club's DPO function.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-25
Fulfilling a Subject Access Request (GDPR Art. 15)
How a club committee user (typically the secretary acting as DPO) fulfils a UK GDPR Article 15 SAR on behalf of a member who can't operate the self-serve flow.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-10
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Member Management Overview
Learn how to view, manage, and organize your club members
9 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-11
Importing Members from CSV
Learn how to bulk import members using a CSV spreadsheet file, including custom field data
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-02-18
Filtering and Searching Members
Learn how to find and filter members using search and advanced filters
6 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-15
Exporting Members to CSV
Learn how to export member data to CSV, including custom fields
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-15
Invitations
Send and manage invitations to members, admins, service providers, programmes, and other tenants
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-11
Visitors
Track non-members who attend your club, walk-ins, regulars, taster sessions, and one-off visitors.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-08-03
Merging duplicate visitors
Combine two visitor records that represent the same person, without losing attendance or payment history.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-23
Visit requests
Review and decide on requests from players and guardians who want to attend a session at your club.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-08
BE Affiliation Enforcement
Understand the BE affiliation threshold, enforcement modes, and how to mark a visitor as affiliated after they pay.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-23
Junior Walk-Ins (Under-18 Visitors)
How the Under-18 toggle works, the guardian consent flow, and what the platform requires before a child can play.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-08-03
Safeguarding hub
DBS verification, incident management, training currency, and the club compliance score
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-20
Running a Junior Section
How to declare your club's safeguarding posture and enable junior membership so you can enrol under-18 members.
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-22
Managing coaches
Review coach deployments at your club, end deployments when coaches leave, and endorse coach qualifications and CPD.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-22
Managing national programmes
Track Badminton England funded programmes, invite participants, record attendance, and export outcome reports for funders.
3 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-18
Endorsing service providers as a club
Use the Service providers admin page to invite providers or endorse existing ones by @handle. Endorsements affect public sort order and add a badge to the provider's profile.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-26
Affiliation invitation and request emails
Who gets notified when a club is invited to an association or county, and when a club requests to join one.
1 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-22
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Notification Health Dashboard (platform admin)
Queue depth, P95 latency, success rate, and push-template fallback alarm for the unified notification pipeline
2 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-06
Reviewing guardian-removal escalations (Platform Admin)
Internal Badminton Clubhouse staff guide to reviewing court-order or legal-basis escalations to revoke a guardian's relationship with a junior.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-04
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Managing Seasons
Create and manage club seasons to organise teams, matches, and events by time period
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-03-01
Rolling a season over
Build next season from a completed season's final tables: promote and relegate teams, edit the grid, and confirm to create next season in draft.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-06
Confirming your club for next season
What your club sees after an association rolls a season over, and how confirming your entry finalises your carried-over player registrations.
2 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-06
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Club Settings Overview
Learn how to configure your club settings, memberships, roles, and tags
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-04-22
Memberships
Learn how to create and manage memberships for your club
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-20
Managing Venues
Learn how to set up and manage venues, schedules, closures, and what3words locations
6 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-04-21
Event Types
Configure event categories with colors and default durations for your club calendar
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-18
Your Public Page
Control how non-members see your club, your shareable public URL, the cover image and story, FAQs, social links, and the Find-a-Club search listing
6 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-08-01
Finance Settings
Configure your club's bank details, payment instructions, visitor fees, fixture fees, and payment reminder settings
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-04-22
Plans and Packages
How your club's size Plan and feature Package work together, and where to see what your club currently has
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-09
Roles & Permissions
Understand system roles, create your own custom roles, and control what each committee member can do
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-21
Deleting Your Club
How to permanently delete your club and all associated data from Badminton Clubhouse
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-02-01
Managing Player Skill Levels
Set up and assign skill levels to help balance games during club sessions
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-01-30
Adding admins (including non-playing ones)
Add an existing member as admin or invite someone new by email, with one or more roles
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-05-11
Preview Switcher (Staff Tool)
How Badminton Clubhouse staff use the Preview switcher to simulate any size plan, package, member tier, or role for testing
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-09
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Junior clubs
Running a junior club on Badminton Clubhouse
Everything you need to know about admitting junior members: the safeguarding-first approach, the three club postures, and how the platform adapts to support a junior section.
7 min readPublic, CommitteeUpdated 2026-07-04
Setting up your junior club
How to declare your club's safeguarding scope, meet the two preconditions, and unlock the junior section on Badminton Clubhouse.
7 min readPublic, CommitteeUpdated 2026-08-01
Junior memberships and fees
How to create age-tiered junior membership types, set junior pricing, and enforce age eligibility on Badminton Clubhouse.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-20
Safeguarding and adult oversight
DBS checks, safeguarding training, the current-adult rule for junior sessions, and how to view your club's compliance status on Badminton Clubhouse.
4 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-06-20
Enrolling and managing juniors
How to invite a junior through their guardian, use the junior register, record consents, manage multiple guardians, and promote a junior to an adult account at 18.
8 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-12
Running junior sessions
How to check juniors into club sessions, handle under-18 walk-ins, apply the current-adult rule, and record a handover at sign-out on Badminton Clubhouse.
5 min readCommitteeUpdated 2026-07-16