The Operations Platform for Modern Hockey Associations
Team apps help your teams play. SportsHelpers helps your association run: volunteers, families and sponsorship, all in one place.
Every game needs off-ice volunteers. Every family owes hours.
Minor hockey runs on parent volunteers: timekeepers, scorekeepers, penalty box attendants, tournament crews and fundraising teams, all season long.
Most associations also tie volunteering to a bond or deposit, which means months of tracking hours and reconciling cheques at the end of the season. SportsHelpers fills the shifts, verifies the hours and runs the bond process, so your volunteer coordinator isn’t doing it all from a spreadsheet.
Built for every job a hockey season needs
- Timekeeper and scorekeeper (game sheet)
- Penalty box attendants
- Tournament and jamboree hosting
- Dressing room monitors
- 50/50, raffle and fundraising shifts
- Concession and association events
- Equipment and jersey handout
- Team manager and division coordinator roles
Set the jobs up once and reuse them every season. Only the dates change. Restrict jobs to a division or team, so families only see the shifts that apply to them.
More than a sign-up sheet. Built for how associations actually run.
Run Better
Spend less time on admin and more time building your association.
Volunteer operations, automated.
Made for associations, not generic volunteering
Family accounts with two volunteers per family, division and team jobs, and team managers and coordinators who run their own part of the program.
Hours you can trust
Automated check-in and check-out verifies every shift, with no-show tracking built in. When a family’s bond depends on their hours, those hours are verified, not self-reported.
Volunteer bonds, run for you
Set a season hour target or bond value for each family, then let the automated bond process run from start to payout. Gone is the hugely time-intensive bond reconciliation and notification process when the season ends.
Ready for this Board, and the next one
A fill-rate dashboard shows unfilled shifts weeks ahead. Multi-season trend reports are ready for your AGM. Succession tools mean next season’s coordinator picks up exactly where this year’s left off.
Engage Better
Make it easier for families to contribute.
Clear expectations, and jobs that fit their schedule.
Their own portal, on their phone
Every family gets its own portal to find, sign up for and manage the jobs that fit their schedule, with a true mobile experience.
Only the jobs that apply to them
Families see the jobs for their own division or team, and their hours are tracked automatically against the season target.
Reminders and two-way messaging
Volunteer job reminders mean fewer forgotten shifts, and coordinators and families can message each other directly.
Set up for you, not by you
Compliance and Governance onboarding includes your season’s data uploaded for you, plus training, so families are ready on day one. Community is quick to set up yourself, with AI chat support.
Grow Better
Go beyond logos and visibility.
A stronger sponsorship program.
A stronger sponsorship offer
Give local businesses genuine community engagement with your families, not just a logo on the glass.
Revenue that pays its way
A new, renewable source of association revenue that can help cover the cost of your subscription. See how it works
What associations say
“With SportsHelpers, our volunteer program is now fully automated, from family information management to volunteer signup and reporting, Bond management through to new coordinator and Board-member succession.”
Lana Sharpe, Registrar/Administrator, Vancouver Minor Hockey Association
Find the edition that fits your association
Community
Choose this if
Volunteering is voluntary, you have up to 600 families, and you want to get organized quickly.
From $199 a year
Compliance
Choose this if
You set volunteer hour targets or collect deposits and buyouts, or you’ve passed 600 families.
From $499 a year
Governance
Choose this if
You run a large or multi-program association and need oversight and clean handovers between Boards.
From $699 a year
Sponsorship that works harder than a rink-side ad
Most association sponsorships are sold on rink-side ads, jersey logos and impressions: hard to value, and harder to renew.
The SportsHelpers Community Sponsor Program is different. It connects local businesses with your association’s families inside the program they already use every week, so sponsors get genuine community engagement instead of a logo on the glass. Your association gets a stronger sponsorship offer, better renewals, and a new source of revenue that can help cover the cost of your subscription.
Included in Compliance and Governance. Community includes a sponsor page for up to five local sponsors.
Questions
Yes. Set a bond amount and hour target for each family. As families reach their hours, they’re flagged for bond review, so reconciliation happens through the season instead of piling up at the end. (Compliance and Governance.)
Yes. Restrict any job to a division or team, so a U11 family only sees U11 shifts, and team managers can look after their own team’s volunteers.
No. When Community launches on December 1, it will include a 15-day free trial with no card required.No. Community has a 15-day free trial with no card required.
Community is self-serve. Compliance and Governance onboarding includes uploading your season’s data for you, plus training.
Yes, any time.
Volunteer management software for minor hockey associations
SportsHelpers is volunteer management software built for minor hockey associations. Minor and youth hockey associations use SportsHelpers to schedule timekeepers, scorekeepers and tournament volunteers, track volunteer hours with automated check-in and check-out, and manage volunteer bonds and deposits from start to finish. Parents sign up for shifts from their phones and get reminders before every game, and Boards get clear reporting on hours, no-shows and bond status. Whether your association has a few hundred families or more than 3,500, there is a SportsHelpers edition built for it.