Managing Your Juniors

The Juniors page (/me/juniors) is where guardians of under-18 players manage the profiles of the juniors they look after. A junior's profile belongs to you, the guardian, not to any specific club, so the same profile works across every club they play at. You don't have to be a family member: a parent, step-parent, kinship carer, or other legal guardian can all act as a guardian.

Note: You only need this page if you're a guardian responsible for a junior player. Adult players manage their own profiles via Your Profile.

Who Needs This

Use the Juniors page if you:

• Are a parent or legal guardian of a player under 18
• Have accepted a club invitation on behalf of a junior
• Want to add another junior before applying or accepting an invitation

Getting There

There are two ways in:

• Navigate to Juniors (under the Guardian section) from your /me sidebar.
• From your /me home, an Add a junior banner appears if you don't yet have any juniors on file. Tap it to jump straight to the Juniors page.

If you haven't added any juniors yet, the page invites you to add your first. Once you have at least one, the dashboard nudge disappears.

Adding a Junior

1. Click Add junior in the top right (or Add your first junior in the empty state)
2. Fill in the form:

Required fields:

• First name
• Last name
• Date of birth: used to calculate the junior's age and to match invitations sent for them. A junior must be under 18.
• Emergency contacts: at least one person the club can reach on the night, and up to three. Each is a name, a UK phone number, and their relationship to the child. Use Add contact to add a second or third, and the remove button on a contact to drop one. Add anyone who might drop off or collect, such as a grandparent or a family friend.

Optional fields:

• Display name: what the junior prefers to be called
• Gender and pronouns
• Playing hand (right or left)
• Ability level
• Years playing
• Medical notes: any information clubs should know in an emergency
• Bio: a short description
• Visibility: controls who can see their profile (clubs only, or private). Junior profiles are never public.

3. Click Add junior to save

The junior appears as a card on the Juniors page with their name, age, ability level, and dominant hand.

Editing a Junior's Profile

1. Click Edit on the junior's card to open their edit page
2. Update any field
3. Click Save changes

Changes apply across every club the junior belongs to, you don't need to update each club separately.

Note: If your junior was added before emergency contacts became a required field, you may see an Emergency contact missing card on your /me Action Centre. Open their edit page, add a contact under Emergency contacts, and save, the card clears automatically.

Removing a Junior

Click the Remove button on a junior's card. A confirmation dialog will appear:

If you are this junior's only guardian, their club memberships at every club will be removed. This cannot be undone.

If the junior has another guardian (e.g., the other parent also looks after them), only your guardian link is removed, the junior stays with their other guardian and their club memberships are unaffected.

Tip: If you only want to leave a single club rather than remove the junior entirely, do that from My Clubs instead.

How It Connects to Clubs

When a club invites a junior, the invitation is addressed to your email (the guardian's), not the junior's. Accepting walks you through the same full profile as registering a child to join: pick an existing child or add a new one, complete their profile including emergency contacts, and give any consents the club requires. The committee then reviews and confirms the membership, just like an online registration. You can then accept invitations from other clubs for the same junior without re-entering their details.

Viewing Your Junior's Playing Stats

Click a junior's card to open their own page. Alongside their guardians and club memberships, you'll find a Playing stats section with their club-night stats, per club they belong to:

• Games played, games won, win rate, and sessions played
• Recent form (their last games, win or loss)
• A short list of recent games with the date, opponents, and result

If your junior hasn't played a club-night game at a club yet, that club's section simply says stats will appear once they do. Only club-night games recorded on the peg board are counted, competition stats aren't available yet: the page shows a note that they'll appear once your junior plays in a competition.

Giving Consent for a Child to Enter a Competition

Before a child can be entered into a competition (a league, cup, or other event run by one of their clubs), a guardian must give consent for that specific competition. This is separate from the club consents above.

On a child's page, find the Competition consent section. It lists every competition currently open for entry at the child's clubs:

1. Use Give consent next to a competition to allow it.
2. Use Withdraw to take consent back. Withdrawing stops the club from making any new entry for the child in that competition, it does not withdraw an entry that already exists.

If a child has more than one guardian, any of you giving consent is enough, the committee only needs one guardian's consent on file.

Entering a Child in a Competition

Once consent is given, an individual competition can be entered two ways:

• You enter the child yourself: on the competition's public page, use the Enter panel and choose the child from the Entering as list instead of yourself. You'll be asked to confirm consent inline if you haven't already given it on the Juniors page.
• The club enters the child: the committee can register the child directly once consent is on file. You'll see the entry appear on your side without doing anything further.

Either way, the child's entries then appear on My competitions under My entries, alongside your own, each badged with the child's name. From there you can Withdraw the child's entry while entries are still open; any fee paid is handled the same way as your own entries.

Pair entries for juniors are currently arranged by the club rather than guardian-initiated, so you won't see a "Entering as" option for pair competitions yet.

Submitting and confirming a child's results

Once a child's fixture has been played, you submit and confirm the result the same way you would for your own: open the fixture and tap Submit result, or Verify result if the other side has already submitted. There's no separate step for a junior's fixture, you act on the child's behalf automatically because you're their guardian. See Submitting a singles or pairs result for the full walkthrough.

Notifications about a child's fixtures (a result submitted, a fixture change requested, a box period opening, a ladder challenge) come to you and are labelled "For <child's first name>" so you can tell them apart from your own.

Registering a Child to Join a Club

Some clubs let you register a child to join without waiting for an invitation. On the club's public page you'll see a Register a child to join button when the club welcomes juniors and has opened online registration. Tapping it opens a short guided wizard:

1. Your details. Confirm your name and phone number. The club uses these to reach you, and we keep them on your account so you only enter them once.
2. Children. Pick an existing child on your account, or Add a new child. You can add more than one child in the same registration.
3. Each child's profile. For each child you fill in the full profile (name, date of birth, playing information, medical notes, and emergency contacts). When adding emergency contacts here, tap Use my details to add yourself as a contact in one step, then Add contact for anyone else who might drop off or collect. In the same step you choose the membership they're joining on and tick any consents the club requires. If you can't tick every consent yet, you can still register, the membership just stays pending until they're all given.
4. Review and send. Check each child, agree to the club's privacy notice and terms of membership, then Send registration.

The committee reviews every registration and confirms the child's place. You only enter the child's details once, and they stay on your account for next time. You can only register children you are the guardian of.

While the committee reviews a registration, the child's page shows the club with an Awaiting committee review note and the date you submitted, so you can see it's in progress. Every active guardian of the child sees the same pending registration, so a co-guardian won't accidentally register the same child twice.

Giving and Managing Club Consents

Some clubs ask guardians to give one or more consents before a child can take part, for example:

• Photography and media: permission to include the child in photos or video.
• Participation in activities: permission for the child to take part in club activities.
• Emergency medical treatment: permission for the club to arrange emergency treatment if needed.

You can tick these when you enrol or register a child. If you enrol without giving them all, the child still joins but their membership shows as Pending until every required consent is given. Pending simply means the club is waiting on consents, it doesn't remove the child from the club.

To give or change consents at any time:

1. Go to Juniors (under the Guardian section) from your /me sidebar.
2. Find the child's card. Any club that requires consents shows a Club consents panel.
3. Use Give consent to grant one, or Withdraw to remove one. Withdrawing asks you to confirm, because it may pause the child's participation and the club can see the change.

Once every required consent for a club is given, a pending membership becomes active automatically. You'll also see an Awaiting consents prompt on the club card in My Clubs while any are still outstanding.

Booking a Taster Visit for a Child

If a club runs bookable sessions and welcomes juniors, you can book a child a taster visit from the session on the club's page.

1. Open a bookable session and find Bring a child.
2. Choose which child to bring.
3. Tick the box to confirm you consent to the child attending as a visitor.
4. Select Book a child in (or Request a place, if the club reviews requests first).

Your consent is recorded against the child for the club, so you won't have to confirm it every time. On the night, the child can only be brought onto court when the session is covered by a suitably checked adult, this is handled by the club and keeps every junior safe.

Booking a Session Place for a Child

Once a child is a member of a club, you can book them onto that club's capacity-limited sessions. This works whether or not you're a member of the club yourself: members see Myself plus their children in the picker, while a guardian who isn't a member sees just their children.

1. Open the session (from the club's events or My calendar).
2. In the booking panel, check the booked count badge (for example 8/12 booked), then use the Book for dropdown to choose who to book.
3. Select Book (or Join waitlist if the session is full).

To book more than one child, pick the next child and book again. The dropdown keeps the children in your care listed so you can move through them quickly, and each booking shows a confirmation naming the child.

You can cancel a child's place the same way: pick the child in Book for, then Cancel booking. Booking confirmations, waitlist updates, and cancellations for the child are sent to you, the guardian.

Responding to and RSVPing to Events for a Child

Events at a child's club appear on your calendar. Each event shows once, with badges naming where the children in your care stand: Invited (Millie) for a pending invitation, Going (Millie + Bobby) once they're confirmed. A person filter sits above the calendar: Everyone, Me, plus a pill per child (named with their display name), so you can see just that child's events.

Tapping the row opens the event page. The club's name and badge sit at the top (tap them to visit the club's site), followed by the full details (date, time, venue, host, and any notes) and a Respond for your juniors section listing every junior you look after at that club with their current status. You don't need to be a member of the club yourself to open the event or respond for a child, this works the same way at a juniors-only club where you were never a member. If you're a member of the club too, your own attendance is a separate You row above the juniors' section.

The response section also shows how many people are attending, and the limit when the event has one (for example 14/20 attending). When an event is full, an Event full badge appears and you can no longer add a child (though you can still take one off or decline an invitation).

• For an invitation, use Accept or Decline next to each child.
• For an open event (one the club has opened to anyone who can see it), use Attend next to each eligible child to add them, or Leave to take them off.
• If the event charges a fee, the amount is shown on each child's row before you respond. Accepting or joining raises the payment request against you (labelled for the child); declining or leaving an unpaid one cancels the fee automatically. A fee you've already paid is never auto-refunded, ask the committee if you think a refund is due.

Any eligibility rules (for example, an event restricted to a particular team or tag) apply to a child, not to you: a child not on an invitation-only guest list shows Not invited yet, and a child who doesn't match a team or tag restriction shows Not eligible. Your calendar only lists a club's events when they're open to anyone, or when one of the children in your care is invited to, eligible for, or already on them; committee-only and other restricted events you have no part in simply don't appear. Places at capacity-limited sessions are booked from the Book for picker instead, see Booking a Session Place for a Child above.

Once a child is confirmed, their events are marked Going on your calendar (named per child, e.g. Going (Millie)), and appear in the Next up card on your home page. See Seeing Which Events You're Going To.

Signing a Child Out

If a child is checked into an event's register as present, you can sign them out yourself from your own device instead of waiting for whoever is taking the register. Open the event from your calendar and find the child's row: tap Sign out next to their name, confirm in the dialog, and they're recorded as collected and signed out immediately.

This only appears while the child is present and not yet collected. Once they've been signed out, whether by you or by the register taker, the row simply shows they've been signed out and when. On the club's side, committee register takers see your name with a (guardian) label in the child's collection record, so they can tell it was a self-service sign-out.

A Child's Data and Privacy

Open a child's page from the Juniors list and find the Data and privacy section to exercise their data protection rights as their guardian:

• Request a copy of their data: email privacy@badmintonclubhouse.com with the child's full name and the email address on your account. We respond within one calendar month. A self-serve download for juniors is coming soon.
• Request deletion of their profile: this schedules the profile for deletion after a 30-day cooling-off period. Records the club is legally required to keep (for example safeguarding records) are retained, and deletion can't proceed while a welfare review is active for the child.

For the platform-wide detail, see Your data and Deleting your account.

Related Articles

• Your Profile
• Your player area
• How to Apply for Membership
• Leaving a Club
• Paying for a child's fees
• Using the Club Calendar
• Entering a competition
• Submitting a singles or pairs result