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Case study · The live pilot
BCC Baglan Cricket ClubCricket · South Wales · est. 1952

How Baglan CC runs the whole club — and finds its funding — with Pavilion

Baglan is the South Wales cricket club Pavilion is built hand-in-hand with. Not a demo, not a screenshot — a real volunteer-run club using every part of the platform, every weekend of the season.

1952Established
100%Volunteer-run
Every weekendIn live use
baglan-site.vercel.app
Baglan Cricket Club · est. 1952
The Boars
FixturesSquadTablesNewsJoin
Latest results · auto-updated
Baglan 1st XIvs Skewen · homeWon
Baglan 2nd XIvs Cwmavon · awaySat
Baglan 1st XIvs Briton Ferry · homeSat
This week's XI
JDJ. Davies (c)
RWR. Williams
TMT. Morgan
+8and eight more
The challenge

A club run on goodwill, group chats
and a tired spreadsheet

Like thousands of grassroots clubs, Baglan is run entirely by volunteers who already have day jobs. The admin lived in too many places — and the funding that could change the club went unclaimed because nobody had the time to look.

Spreadsheets everywhere

Subs in one sheet, fixtures in another, availability in a WhatsApp thread. The treasurer chased payments by memory, and nobody had the full picture in one place.

Funding left on the table

There are grants for clubs exactly like Baglan — but finding them meant hours trawling council and Sport Wales pages. So, like most clubs, they simply missed them.

A website nobody could update

The old site was frozen in time — last season's fixtures, an out-of-date committee list — because keeping it current meant work no volunteer had spare hours for.

What they use

Pavilion, end to end —
the same platform every club gets

Baglan isn't on a special version. They use exactly what's live for everyone, which is the point: it's tested for real, by a real committee, before it ever reaches you.

Find the funding first

Grant checker & tracker

It starts with money. Baglan answered a few questions in the free grant checker and saw funding across all four UK nations ranked for their club — then worked the live ones through the tracker, with the AI drafter helping write the applications.

  • Matched against 97 grants across England, Scotland, Wales & NI
  • A pipeline of live opportunities, tracked to deadline
  • AI drafts the application so a volunteer doesn't start from blank
Explore grants & funding
app.getpavilion.co.uk
Funding pipeline
Baglan Cricket Club
CricketBaglan · est. 1952
9
Tracked
3
Drafting
4
Nations
97
Checked
Be Active Wales FundSport Wales · £300–£50,00094% match
Neath Port Talbot — CommunityLocal authority · facilitiesDrafting
Run the season

Fixtures, squad & availability

The whole season lives in one place. Players set their availability from their phones, the captain picks the XI, and a tidy teamsheet PDF goes out — no more chasing replies across three group chats.

  • Fixtures, results and league tables in one calendar
  • Availability collected from players, not chased by the captain
  • Matchday teamsheets generated as clean PDFs
Explore club management
app.getpavilion.co.uk
Saturday · 1st XI
Baglan vs Skewen
Home13:00 · The Rec
11
Available
2
Maybe
XI
Picked
PDF
Sent
J. Davies (c)Available · opening batIn XI
R. WilliamsAvailable · all-rounderIn XI
Mind the money

Finance & subs tracker

The treasurer finally has the full picture. An income and expense ledger, plus a subs tracker that shows exactly who has paid and who is owing — so the books are ready for the AGM, not patched together the night before.

  • One ledger for income and expenses, all season
  • A subs tracker showing paid vs owing at a glance
  • Numbers ready for the committee, not the spreadsheet shuffle
Explore finance
app.getpavilion.co.uk
Season ledger · 2026
Club finances
On trackUpdated today
£4.2k
Income
£3.1k
Expenses
28
Paid
3
Owing
Senior subs · 202628 of 31 paid90%
Match fees · MayLogged to ledger£240
The Connected Club Site

A club website that
updates itself

Baglan's public site at baglan-site.vercel.app reads straight from Pavilion. Pick the XI in the app and the teamsheet appears on the site. Log a result and the fixtures page re-publishes itself. The committee does zero web admin.

Built once, current forever

Snap. Publish. Done.

A bespoke website is part of the platform — not a separate job for a separate volunteer. Because it pulls live from the same data the committee already keeps, it is never out of date.

  • Fixtures, results and squad publish automatically from the app
  • Photos, news and committee bios in a club-only web area
  • Zero web admin — no plugins, no logins to forget, no stale season
Visit Baglan's site ↗ How connected sites work
baglan-site.vercel.app
Baglan Cricket Club · est. 1952
The Boars
FixturesSquadTablesNewsJoin
1st XI squad · live from Pavilion
JDJ. Davies — Captain
RWR. Williams — All-rounder
TMT. Morgan — Wicketkeeper
GEG. Evans — Seam
Latest news
Boars edge a thriller at the Rec
Match report · auto-posted
Junior nets start Thursday
Club news
The outcome

One platform. One committee.
The whole club, in hand.

9
Grants tracked
4
UK nations checked
0
Hours of web admin
Every weekend
In live use

Indicative of Baglan's live pilot. Every feature shipped to clubs is used here first, for real, before it reaches you.

Before Pavilion, running the club meant five spreadsheets and a head full of who-owes-what. Now the fixtures, the squad, the money and the website all live in one place — and it's already found us funding we'd never have gone looking for.
BCC Baglan Cricket ClubSouth Wales · Pavilion's pilot club
Why Baglan chose Pavilion

What makes it different from
a typical club app

Plenty of tools can run fixtures. Almost none of them help a volunteer find the money that keeps the club alive. Here is where Pavilion is built differently.

What matters to a grassroots club
Pavilion
Typical club app
Helps you find funding
Free checker over 97 grants, all 4 UK nations, plus an AI drafter
Most don't help you find money at all
How it's priced
One flat per-club price — Free, £24 or £49
Many charge per member or per player, so cost grows with the club
Club website
A Connected Club Site that updates itself from the app
Often a separate product, or a site someone has to keep updating by hand
AI that saves volunteers time
Grant drafter and meeting minutes built in
Rarely included
Built with a real club
Warm, human, made in Wales hand-in-hand with Baglan CC
Varies by provider

Comparison is at a general category level and reflects our last review — club apps vary, so always check each provider's latest features and pricing.

Your club could be
next

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