Club Pulse Check Surveying every table tennis club in Australia

The Table Tennis Club Pulse Check

See how every club in Australia really runs

We are asking every table tennis club in the country the same 12 questions about volunteers, admin, money and growth. Take one minute to answer for your club, and the full national results come back to you, free.

Free. Every club that takes part gets the national results.
Joel Badcock

Joel BadcockTreasurer, Devonport Table Tennis Association

Yours when you take part

The National Club Pulse Report

Answers from clubs in every state, in one summary:

  • How many people it really takes to run a club
  • Where the volunteer hours actually go
  • How clubs collect fees and chase grants
  • Whether membership is growing or shrinking
  • What the strongest clubs do differently
Free for every club that takes part

What you get out of it

The questions every committee wonders about

You know how your club runs. The results show you how everyone else does it, with real answers from clubs across the country:

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Is it three people and a group chat everywhere?

How many hands actually keep a club running, and what happens when a key person steps away.

Where do the evenings go?

Which jobs eat the most volunteer hours nationally, from rego nights to the newsletter.

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How does everyone else collect fees?

How clubs handle payments, chasing and grants, and how many actually know where they stand financially.

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Who is growing, and how?

Whether membership is rising or falling around the country, and what the growing clubs do differently.

Results are reported in aggregate only, no club is ever singled out. The full summary goes to every participating club.

The deal

One minute gets your club all of this

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The full national report

Every answer from every state in one summary, sent to every participating club. It is not published anywhere else, taking part is the only way to see it.

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15% off, locked in

Complete the survey within 2 days of your invite and your club keeps 15% off anything we ever release. There is no obligation to buy a thing.

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Zero commitment

This is research, not a sales funnel. Worst case, you have spent a minute and the national results land in your inbox anyway.

The 15% locks in when you finish within 2 days of your invite
Joel Badcock at the table

Who is asking

G'day, I'm Joel

I have played table tennis in Tasmania for 8 years, and I am the treasurer of the Devonport Table Tennis Association. I know what it takes to keep a club going, because at our place I am one of the people it takes it out of.

This survey exists because I want the same answers you do: is every club carrying the same load as ours, or are some doing it smarter? Nobody is selling you anything today. You answer 12 questions, and everything we learn comes back to you.

Joel BadcockTreasurer, Devonport Table Tennis Association
The Devonport Table Tennis club website on desktop
Live fixtures and ladders on a phone
The system we built for our own club. It runs the lot, live, today.

Why you can trust the questions

We live this stuff too

Our committee got tired of doing more paperwork than playing, so we built a system that now runs our club, live, today. That is where every survey question comes from:

  • Registrations and memberships that handle themselves
  • Fee reminders that do the chasing for us
  • Fixtures, results and ladders that update on their own
  • Scoresheets scanned and entered automatically

The survey tells us whether other clubs want the same. The results tell you how your club compares. Fair trade.

Pennant night at the Devonport clubrooms
Pennant night at the Devonport clubrooms. Every club has nights like this, and volunteers behind them.

Why it matters

The clearer the picture of how clubs really run, the easier it gets to give volunteers their evenings back.

The more clubs take part, the more useful the results become, for your committee and for the whole table tennis community.

Add your club. Get the picture back.

One response per club is plenty, from whoever knows where the volunteer hours really go.

About a minute. No commitment. The national results come back to every participating club.