Information for Clubs
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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
See also National Croquet Day
- 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
- The office will supply these A4 size posters in printed form to clubs on request. Each of the posters is also available here for download, either in PDF or JPG format. You are free to download and print the posters - just add your club details in the white space (electronically or by hand).
Poster 1
Poster 2 - 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.
Using this website
