Your Constitution · 8 min read
Why your club should adopt the Model Rules
They are free, the government maintains them, and they protect your committee more than a custom constitution ever will.
Read the guide →Come & TryA structured way in for people curious about croquet, and a steady pipeline of new members for clubs.
The front door most new members walk through.
A structured way in for people curious about croquet, and a steady pipeline of new members for clubs.
All of Come & Try →
myCroquetThe membership system — one login, not two systems: club secretaries manage their own members directly.
One login, not two systems.
Club secretaries manage their own members directly, and CAQ reviews every change.
All of myCroquet →
Club Operation
Everything else running a club takes.
The constitution, the committee, volunteers, money, the grounds, insurance, safety and events — the day-to-day of running a club, in one place.
Your ConstitutionThe Model Rules, why they exist, and how they protect the people who run your club.The CommitteePresident, secretary, treasurer and members — what each role must do by law, and what is just custom.Money & GrantsFinancial records, the treasurer's obligations, audit tiers, and finding grant money.- Working With ChildrenBlue Cards — who needs one, who does not, and how a club stays on the right side of it.
- VolunteersFinding them, keeping them, and the protection the law already gives them.
- Grounds & FacilitiesLawns, equipment, buildings — keeping the place playable.
- InsuranceWhat the member policy covers, what it does not, and what to do when you need to claim.
- Safety & RiskRisk assessment, incidents, and the paperwork that protects you.
- Running EventsTournaments, open days and social days — planning and paperwork.
- AIHow CAQ uses AI, why everything it writes carries a name, and what that has to do with a viral video of a quokka.
CroquetClaude's Work
What's being built behind the scenes.
Come & Try, myCroquet, news, grants, club records — a running, honest record of the work being done for Queensland croquet, written plainly and answering the question that matters: does this help your club?
Getting new players inMyCroquet's launch modules get their post-review polishFaster member lists, one-click approvals, and a new state-wide Come & Try chart — four requested fixes, built and tested by 25 July 2026.
Getting new players inCome & Try gets a club-facing display and a Command Centre for organisersOne screen for the whole Come & Try funnel, including the text messages, built and proven against real Wide Bay data.
Getting new players inGold Coast Tweed Come & Try rollout reaches seven clubsThe Wide Bay coordinator rollout extended to Gold Coast Tweed, using each club's real contacts.
Records and adminA public MyCroquet wiki, one page per moduleEvery part of myCroquet explained in plain English, generated straight from the real system so it stays current.
Money and grantsGrants system gets a rebuild, a weekly watcher, and club alertsA weekly automatic check for new funding rounds, with every alert still going through Wade's approval first.
Records and adminDirectory-unlocked club websites — a free site for finishing your profileComplete your club's myCroquet profile and unlock a free website on your own domain, built from the same data.
News and getting the word outHOOPLA news site audit adds a public newsletter signup and a clearer CAQ linkA newsletter signup panel, fixed CAQ links, and a fix for a hidden loading slowdown.
Behind the scenesClub Hub goes from a bare forum to a real site for club volunteersThe old 42-member forum is now a full guide to running a club, with the forum still inside it.See all 31Every entry, grouped by topic →From the forum
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The clubs talk to each other on Club Hub's forum. If it is a practical problem, it has usually come up before.
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