Club email in a personal inbox
Fixtures, safeguarding correspondence and subs chasing all sit in someone's personal account, and walk out the door when they step down.
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Digitalising cricket clubs.On and off the pitch.
We take grassroots cricket clubs from paper fixture lists and shared Hotmail accounts to a secure, connected, fully digital operation, powered by Microsoft 365 and built around how clubs actually run.
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- Hampshire and nationwide
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Ampfield & North Baddesley Cricket Club
A Hampshire club with two grounds, junior and senior sections, a busy pavilion and a genuinely remote outfield. We rebuilt their entire digital operation from the ground up, and we would like to do the same for your club.
See the full stackThe club we rebuilt
- Two grounds
- Junior and senior sections
- A busy pavilion
- A genuinely remote outfield
- Moved from personal inboxes and WhatsApp threads to Microsoft 365
Most clubs are running on goodwill and WhatsApp
Volunteer-run clubs do extraordinary things with almost no infrastructure. But the admin overhead is brutal, and it usually lands on two or three people.
Nobody can find anything
The constitution on a laptop, the accounts on a memory stick, last year's registration forms in a WhatsApp thread that has since been cleared.
Committee meetings that never quorate
Getting eight volunteers into a pavilion on a Tuesday in February is harder than winning the league.
A website two seasons out of date
Scores updated by hand, if at all. Play-Cricket says one thing, the site says another, and parents believe neither.
No usable connectivity at the ground
Rural sites with one bar of 4G. No streaming, no live scoring, no card payments behind the bar.
Data handling that would not survive a question
Junior details on personal phones, no access control, no retention policy, and real safeguarding and GDPR exposure.
What a digitalised cricket club looks like
Every one of these is live at ANBCC today. We can deploy the same stack at your club, or cherry-pick the parts you need.
Proper club email
Exchange Online gives every role a real club address that stays with the club, not the person.
- Role-based mailboxes: chair@, juniors@, treasurer@
- Shared mailboxes, so handovers take minutes
- Full archive and retention
- Anti-phishing and spoofing protection
Committee on Teams
Stop cancelling meetings because half the committee cannot make the pavilion.
- Meetings with recordings and automatic notes
- Channels per section: seniors, juniors, ground, bar
- Constitution and policies under version control
- Works on any phone
Microsoft Forms
Every bit of data capture that currently happens on paper or in a group chat.
- Junior registration and medical consent
- Availability, match fees and subs
- Ground and pitch inspection reports
- Feeds into SharePoint and Power BI
Play-Cricket integration
A custom-built integration with the Play-Cricket API, so your website updates itself.
- Fixtures, results and tables pulled automatically
- Live in-play scores during matches
- Team sheets and player statistics
- One source of truth, always in sync
Frogbox streaming
Your live stream should not live on someone else's platform with someone else's adverts.
- Frogbox feed relayed through YouTube
- Embedded on your own website
- Scoreboard overlay alongside the stream
- Simultaneous relay to Facebook Live
Appspace signage
Make the screens inside the pavilion earn their keep on match days.
- Live scoreboard on clubhouse screens
- Sponsor rotation, a sellable club asset
- Bar menus, fixtures, events and notices
- Scheduled content, no volunteer required
ClubApp: the club app we built for the Amps
The club used to run on WhatsApp polls, online forms and a lot of chasing. We built them ClubApp: availability in one tap, captains picking every side from one pool, match-day details, club chat, fees, the duty rota and nets booking, all in one place and built around how a cricket club actually works.
- One-tap availability, with parents answering for juniors
- Every Saturday side picked from one shared pool
- Club chat with safeguarding built in
- Fees, card payments, the duty rota and nets
200Mbps at a ground in the middle of nowhere
Rural cricket clubs are almost always the last address on the exchange. Most sit on ADSL, a 4G dongle or nothing at all, which rules out streaming, live scoring, card payments and digital signage before you start.
We design and manage connectivity for remote sites, including Starlink-based solutions where a fixed line simply is not viable. It is delivered as a fully managed service: hardware, install, monitoring and support, on one monthly bill.
On top of that we build a proper network, with segregated WiFi for members, guests, juniors and back-of-house systems, so your card terminal and your CCTV are not sharing a network with 200 spectators.
- 200Mbpsdelivered to a remote Hampshire ground
- 4 networksmembers, guests, payments and systems kept apart
- 24/7proactive monitoring and managed support
- One billhardware, install, monitoring and support, paid monthly
Secure and compliant, not just digital
Cricket clubs hold sensitive data on children. That brings safeguarding obligations and UK GDPR duties that most volunteer committees have never been resourced to meet properly.
We build the compliance in from day one: identity, access control, retention, and a clear audit trail of who can see what. Not a policy document in a drawer, but controls that enforce themselves.
Licensing can cost less than you think. Microsoft 365 Business Basic is free for eligible not-for-profit organisations, and premium plans are discounted. Not every club qualifies, so we check your club’s eligibility and handle the application as part of onboarding.
- 1 loginfor every volunteer, across every system
- MFAenforced on every account, no exceptions
- FreeMicrosoft 365 Business Basic for eligible not-for-profit clubs, with discounted premium plans
- Audit traila clear record of who can see what
Built to withstand scrutiny
If your league, your county board or a parent asks how junior data is handled, you should have a straight answer.
Identity and access
Entra ID with multi-factor authentication, conditional access and role-based permissions. Access is removed the day someone leaves the committee.
Data protection
Sensitivity labelling, retention policies and data loss prevention on junior and medical information. Nothing lives on a personal phone.
Threat protection
Microsoft Defender across email and endpoints, with domain-level anti-spoofing so nobody can impersonate your treasurer.
Continuity
Everything backed up, everything recoverable. A lost laptop or a departing volunteer is an inconvenience, not a crisis.
Start anywhere. Grow from there.
No club needs all of this on day one. Most start with email and the website, then build out season by season.
Foundation
Get the basics right
The essentials every club should have before anything else.
- Microsoft 365 tenant setup and non-profit licensing
- Club domain and role-based email
- Teams for committee and sections
- MFA and baseline security configuration
- Volunteer onboarding and training
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Digital Club
Everything in Foundation, plus
The club's public face and match-day systems.
- Club website in your club's own look
- ClubApp for availability, teams, fees and the rota
- Play-Cricket API integration
- Microsoft Forms for registration and subs
- SlotKeeper booking for nets and facilities
- Ongoing managed support
Connected Ground
Full stack: everything in Digital Club, plus
The physical infrastructure at your site.
- Managed connectivity, including Starlink
- Segregated WiFi network design and install
- Appspace digital signage in the pavilion
- Frogbox stream relay to YouTube
- Sponsor rotation and content management
Want to know more about online booking for nets and facilities? See SlotKeeper.
We went from a shared email address and a website nobody could update, to live scores on the clubhouse screens and a committee that actually meets.
Let's talk about your club
A free, no-obligation review of how your club runs today and what could be better. We will be honest about what is worth doing and what is not, and we know the difference, because we sit on a committee too.
Book a free club reviewPrefer email?
Write to us directly at sales@sparksystems.co.uk.
- Free and no obligation
- Honest about what is worth doing
- Clubs across Hampshire and nationwide
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