For Competition Fixture Players
Like all orgnanised sport players need to affiliate with a governing body. This helps provide funding to the sport for its management and development and provides player insurance.
To play in a Stafford Squash team in the Brisbane City Squash leagues you need two memberships:
- Stafford Squash membership which is a single payment that combines three levels
- Stafford Squash Club
- Squash Queensland and
- Squash Australia affiliation fees
- A Brisbane City Squash Membership
Ideally this would have all been possible on Revolution Sport, but it doesn’t support three levels of government. At least it’s two payments and not four! 🙂
The SS/SQ/SA one is for the financial year (1 July–30 June 2025). The BCS works on a calendar year. You can do a half year to the end of December.
Where do I pay these affiliation fees?
Revolutionise Sport for the Stafford/Squash QLD/Squash Australia membership
Join or renew your membership here: revolutionise.com.au/staffordssquash
Please find your Squash Australia ID to use when joining or renewing. You should have this from an email from them. Get in touch if you can’t find yours.
Then choose the Squash QLD Local Senior FY25 membership type.
Renew your BCS affiliation on their SportyHQ page. You’ll need to log into your SportyHQ account.
What about this notice on SportyHQ telling me my membership has expired?
You might see this message. It’s because SportyHQ used to be where our club membership was paid. This feature isn’t aware of your Revolutionise Sport status and will therefore show you as expired.
It’s helpful if you click renew membership and update it (for $0). Even though this isn’t your real affiliation it helps the club get visibility into its members on SportyHQ so we can help with teams and affiliation issues.
For Social Stafford Squash Club Members
If you are not playing in the fixture competition you just need a social club membership to be part of the club.
This is also done through Revolutionise Sport. Choose the Lifestyle Membership. This is noticeably cheaper because it does not include Squash Queensland or Squash Australia fees and therefore does not enable you to play competitions squash.
Stafford Squash Club vs Centre
One last detail – it can be confusing to learn the club and the centre are two different entities. Everything above relates to the club, which is the non profit organisation that runs our teams and social functions. The centre is the business that Fred Robins owns. The building and courts belong to the centre. They also offer their own centre membership through SportyHQ to give you cheaper access to the facilities outside of comp. That might be a good option for you, but it’s separate to the affiliation process.
If you have questions please email club@staffordsquash.com.au or ask in our WhatsApp group.