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Feature · Event planning

Event planning

Prepare the club event's venue, capacity and timing before an independent decision on the current revision.

OverviewOpen Events
Running Club Management · Event planning

Open Events

Events

New
Record numberSubjectCounterpartyStarts atEnds atCapacity
EVN-93629Open evn-367VNS-692211 Oct17 Oct200
EVN-71639Open evn-775VNS-579404 Oct11 Oct320
EVN-34501Open evn-241VNS-290213 Oct19 Oct650
EVN-48130Open evn-654VNS-576405 Oct09 Oct600
EVN-59441Open evn-333VNS-498717 Oct25 Oct560
6 of 6 records
Open evn-367Events · EVN-93629
Open
CounterpartyVNS-6922
Starts at11 Oct
Ends at17 Oct
Capacity200
Example screen with sample data

What you can do

Give the club a clear event to approve

Event Coordinator prepares the race, club run or training event with an accountable owner and a venue belonging to the club organization. The event carries its planned start, end and capacity. Those details give volunteers a common operating plan and give Independent Reviewer a specific revision to examine before approval.

Approval and opening are separate steps. An Approved event has passed the event decision; an Open event is eligible for reservation requests subject to remaining capacity. Agree who opens the event and what the team checks at that handoff so that a volunteer does not mistake approval for permission to start taking places.

How the work is organized

  • Venue preparation. Admin maintains the venue’s contact, address and eligibility note within the club organization. Event Coordinator uses that information when choosing the course or facility for the event and raises unresolved location questions before review.
  • Event ownership. The coordinator sets the subject, organizer details and planned interval, then confirms the capacity unit. The assigned owner gives the team a clear person to contact when the plan changes.
  • Revision approval. Independent Reviewer approves the authorized event revision through the guarded action. It checks organization scope, the expected revision and the permitted transition, then records the outcome in an operation receipt.

What to agree during setup

Agree how the club names events, which time zone applies and what a capacity unit represents. A reservation quantity must use the same basis as the event capacity. Confirm who maintains venue eligibility and how an event owner requests a change after the plan has entered review.

Establish the handoff between approval and opening. Decide who confirms the current plan before the event becomes Open, and how volunteers identify the correct event when similar runs occur on successive dates. Keep the venue contact and the club’s internal responsibility clear before reserving places.

Check the handoff on an actual case

Rehearse a Sunday club run at an eligible venue. Event Coordinator enters the planned interval and capacity, identifies the owner and submits the current plan for review. Independent Reviewer checks the venue and revision, then approves the event through the guarded action. Inspect the resulting receipt with the coordinator.

Next, change the planned start in a separate rehearsal request while retaining the earlier expected revision. Confirm that the stale request cannot silently approve the changed plan. Repeat the original operation key and check its recorded outcome before sending another request. Finish by having Admissions Steward identify the event only after the authorized opening handoff has made it Open.

What your team sees

  • Draft and Review Events — Event plans awaiting preparation or review, with venue, interval, capacity and revision context.
  • Active Venues — Location details and eligibility notes for the coordinator’s planning discussion.
  • Event Schedule — Approved and Open events alongside their planned start and end.

Follow the work through

Use plan and approve an event, then reserve and admit. Agree the operating responsibilities during implementation.

What it keeps track of

Data model
Events
Races, club runs and training events with capacity and lifecycle.
Venues
Course and facility locations used by club events.
Organizations
Running club organizations that own events, venues and members.
Team members
Club staff and volunteers with their platform identity and role.
Review decisions
Independent reviewer decisions on an exact event revision.
Operation receipts
Durable receipts for every guarded operation attempt.

Who uses it

Permissions
Event Coordinator
, Independent Reviewer, Admin, Auditor.
The coordinator prepares the plan, the reviewer decides the revision and the administrator maintains venue and membership details.

Set up Running Club Management your way.

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

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