Information for Clubs

Croquet England runs a series of excellent communications webinars, which are available to Members.

Your Club

For Croquet England application forms, see the downloads section.

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

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

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

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)
A Quick Guide - Club Details Overlay (Word)