Information for Clubs
Other club resources include the Club Guide to Croquet England, Downloads and Forms, Club Croquet England subscription. Please contact the office for anything else.
Croquet England runs a series of excellent communications webinars, which are available to Members.
Your Club
- Croquet Matters: club development framework
- Forming a Club
- Townsend, Apps Heley, and Millennium Club Awards
Grants and Loans
- Lottery Grants
- Grant awarding bodies
- Guidance in the Application for a Grant or Loan from Croquet England
For Croquet England application forms, see the downloads section.
Club Management
- Download a model constitution suitable for Clubs or Federations affiliated to Croquet England. This model is compliant with the HMRC requirements for being a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC).
- Download a model constitution for clubs seeking to register with the Charity Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). This draft has been prepared using the Charity Commission's model constitution and incorporates the amendments required by the Commission for constitutions submitted previously by croquet clubs.
- Croquet England holds an insurance policy that offers insurance cover to Croquet England Affiliate Clubs.
- Fire Safety: The Law requires clubs to carry out a fire risk assessment.
- Advice on Data Protection.
- Policy and Advice on Welfare and Safeguarding
Advice on Recruitment and Retention of Club Members
- Association Croquet Regeneration Working Party report and recommended action for clubs.
- Target Croquet
- Growth and Recruitment in Croquet England - strategy recommendations
- Articles to help you with recruiting members
- Sharing lawns with other users
- Creating and using a Facebook presence
Lawns
- Croquet Lawns: Their Construction, Maintenance and Development - a booklet by Jeff Perris, retired Director of Consultancy Services at The Sports Turf Research Institute, Bingley.
- Laser Levelling
- Measuring Lawn Speed
Resources for Clubs
- Communications Training Resource provides a toolkit for working with the media, including making a plan, attracting interest, preparing for an interview, taking good photos, producing videos, social media and writing for your website, all designed to help with publicising your club. Updated April 2024.
- Download a Draft Press Release
- Access for All: Opening Doors. An excellent guide giving you ideas for how your club can improve physical access for people with disabilities or impairments, produced by The Activity Alliance.
- Two-page factsheet Croquet Explained (PDF 78kb), by Mark Homan & John Bevington
- Pegging down sheet (MS-DOC), or Pegging down sheet (PDF)
- Croquet England organises coaching courses
- Play Croquet Tri-fold Leaflets with space to add club details
Tri-fold Play Croquet leaflets (PDF Print Ready With Crop Marks)
Tri-fold Play Croquet leaflets (Standard PDF) - Play Croquet Tri-fold Leaflets
A Quick Guide (PDF Print Ready With Crop Marks)
A Quick Guide (Standard PDF)