Community youth baseball club

Parents paying registration fees, plus local businesses that sponsor teams or uniforms.

Seasonal registration fees per player, team sponsorships, and fundraising events or tournaments, minus field rentals, insurance, equipment and uniforms.

• Organizing people and schedules
• Communicating with parents and volunteers
• Baseball knowledge or access to good coaches

• Insurance: commercial general liability and often participant accident cover, which may come through your provincial association
• Police record checks (vulnerable sector) and safe sport training for coaches and volunteers, check your provincial requirements
• Whether to run as a not-for-profit or a business, and whether you must collect GST/HST, check with an accountant
• Short outdoor season and rain-outs, which affect fees and field bookings
• Quebec clubs should check French-language and local federation requirements

Startup costs are estimated at typically around $1,500 to $6,000, depending on how you set up your club. Registration fees from parents and sponsorship from local businesses are the usual sources of income to cover the season.

Monthly revenue is estimated at typically around $1,500 to $7,000, depending on player numbers, fees and sponsors. The outdoor season is short and rain-outs can affect both fees and field bookings, so plan around that.

Check insurance, including commercial general liability and participant accident cover, which may come through your provincial association. Check police record checks (vulnerable sector) and safe sport training for coaches and volunteers. Ask an accountant about not-for-profit status and GST/HST. Quebec clubs should check language and federation rules.