Youth basketball depends on parents for transport, fees and attendance. It also depends on coaches protecting their evenings. Basketball England’s volunteer guidance warns against overload; communication design is part of that load.
A healthy pattern: official team membership, event RSVPs, and a chat that is not a public forwarding chain from three seasons ago.
Context: Become a Volunteer; safeguarding communication hygiene.
How Run5 helps: events, RSVPs, notifications and team chat keep parents informed inside the squad, not inside the coach’s personal message requests.