Built by volunteers who were sick of spreadsheets.
HomeGround is the club-management software Belconnen Ramblers built for its own committee — team lists, notices and the season's moving parts, in one place — and it's now being prepared for other clubs across Canberra and beyond.
See HomeGroundWhy we built it
Belconnen Ramblers is a volunteer-run club of over 350 players in Belconnen, founded in 1971. Nothing on the market fitted a club our size, so we built the thing we needed and used it ourselves for a full season before telling anyone.
HomeGround started as one club's internal system — built to fix real problems for a real committee running real Saturday mornings, season after season. It's now available to other clubs. It's still built by people who've sat on a committee at 7am doing team lists before work, not sold by people who've only ever sat in a sales meeting.
— Chris Wattam, President, Belconnen Ramblers
Interested for your club?
HomeGround is being prepared for other sports clubs across Canberra and beyond. See what it looks like for a club like yours, or get in touch with us directly if you'd rather talk it through with someone who uses it every week.
Team lists you can actually trust
Squads and player numbers are set once and published in one place, so a coordinator, coach and parent are always looking at the same version — not four copies of a spreadsheet.
Notices that don't disappear into a group chat
Committee announcements and fill-in requests reach the families who need them, and stay findable afterwards instead of scrolling away in forty unread messages.
Compliance tracked, not chased
Every coach and volunteer's Working With Children Check is tracked and followed up before it lapses, not discovered mid-season.
Fees that collect themselves
Set a payment plan once and let it run, rather than noticing a failed direct debit three months later and having to chase a family for it.
A handover that survives a committee change
When a volunteer steps down, the club's records stay with the club — not in a personal inbox or a laptop nobody else can find.