1. Running Club Management
  2. Who it's for
  3. Community running clubs
Who it's for

Community running clubs

Community running clubs can start with a familiar venue and a recurring run. Event Coordinator prepares the event and its capacity, Independent Reviewer decides the current plan, and Admissions Steward records reserved places and actual arrivals separately. Operations Overview gives the team a common view of attendance and unresolved operating questions.

How Running Club Management is set up for you

Volunteer handoff

Keep the event owner and venue contact clear before opening reservations. Volunteers should identify the correct event by its subject, date and location before making a request.

Attendance discipline

A reserved place records intent to attend. The gate action records actual arrival once against the authorized reservation line, giving the coordinator a dependable basis for the closing discussion.

Exception ownership

Retain operation receipts so a volunteer can inspect an uncertain request. Assign a revision, admission or payment question to the responsible role before repeating an action.

Community running clubs can start with a familiar venue and a recurring run. Event Coordinator prepares the event and its capacity, Independent Reviewer decides the current plan, and Admissions Steward records reserved places and actual arrivals separately. Operations Overview gives the team a common view of attendance and unresolved operating questions.

Choose a club run at an eligible venue and agree how capacity and reservation quantity are counted. Prepare the event, obtain approval and complete the opening handoff. Reserve a place and have a different volunteer identify the reservation at arrival. Repeat the admission request in the rehearsal and inspect the recorded outcome.

Then cancel unused scope in a separate case and explain why a retained reservation record does not by itself authorize admission. Ask Auditor to follow the event revision and receipts while the coordinator distinguishes actual attendance from the reservation list.

Expand to more club events after volunteers can complete the handoff without reconstructing earlier actions from messages. Follow [plan and approve](/running-club-management/processes/plan-and-approve) and [reserve and admit](/running-club-management/processes/reserve-and-admit) for the pilot cycle.

Features to start with

Roles on the team

Admin
Maintains club organizations, venue eligibility and staff account membership without event or result approval authority.
Event Coordinator
Prepares owned event drafts and uses guarded opening, close, cancellation and correction actions for authorized event scope.
Admissions Steward
Reserves places and records arrival through guarded admission actions for the assigned event.
Independent Reviewer
Independently decides event and race-result scope and reviews compensating actions without unrestricted evidence editing.
Auditor
Reads authorized event, attendance, result and operation evidence without changing the recorded outcomes.

Set up Running Club Management your way.

Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.

How to get started