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 →
Find your topic
Everything running a club takes, in one of four places.
Regulatory and governance, the lawns and gear, growing the club, and what's being built behind the scenes — each one a whole page of its own.
Running the ClubThe constitution, the committee, money, insurance and Blue Cards — are we doing this properly?Lawns & GearLawns, equipment and buildings — how do we keep the place playable?
Growing the ClubCome & Try, events and marketing that works for croquet — how do we get more people?Behind the ScenesWhat's being built for CAQ and clubs, and how AI is used and labelled — who made this and is it real?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 37Every entry, grouped by topic →From the forum
Someone else has already asked this.
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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CroquetClaude's Work
What’s being worked on this week.
A day-by-day record, in plain terms, of what’s changing for CAQ and clubs. Written up when it’s worth telling you, quiet on the days it isn’t.
- Fri, 14 AugMember records now sync automatically each night from RevSport, so our membership data stays current without manual updates, and we caught a bug before it could cause problems in production.
- Tue, 11 AugClub Hub's middle pages now display correctly with all layout faults fixed, and clubs can now submit their own event times directly instead of waiting for manual approval, which should get entries live within hours instead of days.
- Sat, 8 AugClub Hub's mobile buttons now work properly after we fixed a bug that was causing brief outages, and we've documented some tricky setup gotchas to help future volunteers avoid the same issues.