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 →
They are free, the government maintains them, and they protect your committee more than a custom constitution ever will.
Read the guide →A structured way in for people curious about croquet, and a steady pipeline of new members for clubs.
All of Come & Try →Club secretaries manage their own members directly, and CAQ reviews every change.
All of myCroquet →Club Operation
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.Working With ChildrenBlue Cards — who needs one, who does not, and how a club stays on the right side of it.The CommitteePresident, secretary, treasurer and members — what each role must do by law, and what is just custom.VolunteersFinding them, keeping them, and the protection the law already gives them.Money & GrantsFinancial records, the treasurer's obligations, audit tiers, and finding grant money.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.CroquetClaude's Work
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.Records and adminThree new flags give members a say over how their data is usedUnsubscribing from the newsletter no longer risks missing an AGM notice or a renewal reminder.Behind the scenesA silent bug that was eating members' forum comments, found and fixedA mobile timing quirk could make a real post vanish with no error shown. It's fixed.Members and membershipsMembership module rolls out club-scoped and CAQ-wide accessmyCroquet's membership area now knows the difference between a member, a club officer, and a CAQ officer.Getting new players inClub Hub grows articles and video, forum folded inside itClub Hub was designed to be more than a forum — the guides you're reading now are the result.Behind the scenesAn Events System built to replace RevSport's booking areaClub-run event bookings inside myCroquet, with a free interested tier and CAQ approval kept in place.Getting new players inCome & Try club guide rebuilt against the real, live productScreenshots and steps recaptured against the live system, with two real product gaps flagged and fixed.Members and membershipsBamford Team Trainer — clubs donate spare computer time to a croquet AIA distributed trainer lets any club's computer help train Bamford, with donated time converting directly into a stronger player.Behind the scenesClubHub #39 answered — do small Queensland croquet clubs need a paid audit?A forum question turned into a short, properly referenced report on when a club actually needs a paid audit.Getting new players inA sign-up form for Come & Try volunteer hostsPutting your hand up to host a Come & Try session is now a form, not an email back and forth.
Members and membershipsClub Mailer lets a club email its own members directlyEveryone, hand-picked members, or a saved group — a new myCroquet tool for club-only email, separate from HOOPLA.
Members and membershipsA Historical Photos module for club trophies and honour boardsPhotograph an old print or honour board on your phone and myCroquet straightens, crops and drafts a description, ready for you to check and publish.Behind the scenesA privacy fix: club officers' mobile numbers were being published openlyA routine check on 30 July 2026 found 38 coordinators' mobile numbers sitting on a public page. Fixed the same day.Records and admincroquetqld.org moves to a new registrar without breaking email or linksThe domain moved off RevSport on 4 August 2026 — email, the website and every CAQ subdomain kept working through the switch.From the forum
The clubs talk to each other on Club Hub's forum. If it is a practical problem, it has usually come up before.
Go to the forum →Being written now
These sections have a place and an outline but nothing worth reading yet. They will appear above, in full, as each one is finished.