Getting a referee shouldn't take twenty phone calls.
Grassroots is losing referees fast — abuse drives it, and the youngest (14–17, who are minors) quit first. The Referees module addresses the whole problem: booking + the regional pool + developing your own + protecting the referee on Saturday. One module, four tabs, the actual referee picture.
- ✓Per-fixture booking with cash-sorted indicator and a Saturday-not-yet-covered alert
- ✓Regional referee pool — discoverable across clubs, not limited to your phonebook
- ✓Develop your own — FA Referee Course pathway for club teenagers (age 14+)
- ✓Protect the Referee — abuse-reporting, post-match experience log, under-18 duty of care
A junior team runs on eleven volunteers.
Lead coach, assistant, team manager, welfare officer, fixtures secretary, treasurer, statistician, kit organiser, net team, tournament organiser, presentation organiser. Twelve jobs to run one U11 team. Volunteer Roles makes the web visible — who holds each, which are gaps — and a per-fixture rota for this weekend so nobody is left wondering.
- ✓Per-team list of every volunteer role with the parent who holds it
- ✓Visible gaps highlighted in red — recruit before Saturday, not after
- ✓Per-fixture rota — refs, nets, first aid, photography opt-outs
- ✓Club-wide gap list rolling up across every age band
Built for the volunteers who run junior football.
Thirty-plus modules grouped four ways — coaching, matchday, the club itself, and keeping parents close. Every one demo-visible at /junior/oakridge-juniors.
Develop every player.
The FA four-corner model, drill libraries, age-appropriate formations and a coaching toolkit a volunteer can actually use on a Tuesday evening.
Tactics, Training & Set Pieces
Age-appropriate formats — 5v5 through 11v11 — with a drill library organised by phase and a small library of set-piece routines that suit U10+.
Player Development Tracker
FA four-corner: technical, physical, social, psychological. Termly reviews authored by coaches, signed off by the Academy Lead, surfaced to parents in plain English.
Coach Toolkit
FIFA-style player cards reading the same four-corner data, drag-and-drop selection, drill library by phase, age-band-aware session brief.
Video & Analysis
Coach-side tool: training footage, opposition scouting, tactical-moment clips with annotations. Separate from the parent-facing Match Video.
GPS, Performance & Heatmaps
Junior-conservative load tracking — distance, sprints, top speed, time in high-intensity zones. Growth-spurt monitor flags before adult-style thresholds even come up.
AI Performance Brief
Half-time, full-time and training briefs in plain English. Built for a volunteer touchline coach, not a sports scientist.
Run your match day.
The Saturday-morning machinery — kit, equipment, ref bookings, lifts to the away pitch — visible at a glance so nobody is the only person who knows what is happening.
Matchday Operations
Per-fixture kit / equipment / ops checklist with the responsible parent named on every line. Saturday-morning machine that nobody forgets.
Referees · the whole problem
Booking, regional pool, develop your own, protect the referee. Under-18 ref duty-of-care built in. Built for the actual referee shortage, not around it.
Travel & Car-Share
Per away fixture — drivers, seats, pickup point, who needs a lift. The five-minute version of the group chat that takes thirty.
Fixtures & Results
Pluggable feed — FA Full-Time, the league website, or coach manual entry. League table, results, the U11 division position. All without leaving Lumio.
Hold the club together.
The volunteer web is the club. Make every job visible, run the committee on a single screen, see the money in plain English, and never lose track of the people doing the unpaid work.
Volunteer Roles
A real U11 team runs on twelve volunteer jobs. We make the web visible — who holds each role, which are gaps, and a per-fixture rota for this weekend.
Committee Suite
The chair's monthly meeting view — club health, open actions, light club-level finance, the role map, a safeguarding line. Not a boardroom, a parents' committee.
Fundraising, Tournaments & Tours
Active campaigns with progress bars, a six-fundraiser playbook other junior clubs have made work, regional summer tournaments, end-of-season tour bookings.
Club Profile & Facilities
Badge + identity + history + honours + sponsors. Plus the pitch-access picture — council bookings, the 3G slot, the equipment-store inventory.
Insights
A 60-second weekend health-check. Squad sizes, attendance, consent coverage, volunteer gaps. Chair-scoped — the screen a committee opens before its monthly meeting.
Safeguarding & Consent Hub
FA Charter Standard compliance flagship. Per-child consent, DBS register, incident log, restricted-child imagery exclusion enforced from the database upward.
Keep parents close.
The parent is the customer. Lumio Junior is built so a parent's relationship with the club deepens every Sunday afternoon — without the club doing any extra work.
Parent App
Sunday afternoon, kettle on, your child's morning is waiting. Highlights, GPS headline, coach note, minutes played and position — in plain English. The flagship.
Match Video & Highlights
Full-match library for coaches; per-child auto-clipped highlight reel for parents. Clips filtered by player and consent — your child's reel, never the rest of the squad's.
AI Match Recap
A 60-second plain-English brief for the school run. Half-time / full-time / training variants for coaches, parent-view variant for the family.
In-app messaging
Send Message composer — who, how, the message itself, preview. In-app push the primary channel, optional email/SMS fallback. Safeguarding-aware by design.
Built first, not bolted on.
Lumio Junior is a children's product. Safeguarding sits below every feature, not next to one. Per-child consent records, a DBS register, an incident log, restricted-child imagery exclusion enforced from the database upward — and the duty of care extends to under-18 referees too. FA Charter Standard compliance falls out of the design.
- ✓Per-child photography / filming / data-sharing consent — with renewal alerts
- ✓DBS register with expiry tracking; coaches without current DBS blocked from coaching
- ✓Restricted-child handling: imagery auto-excluded across Match Video, Highlights, photos
- ✓Incident log with welfare-officer audit trail and committee-meeting summary
- ✓Under-18 referee duty-of-care enforced uniformly across the portal
Who it’s for.
Junior football has a wider role spectrum than the senior game. A volunteer chair, a lead coach, and a parent each need a different view of the same club — Lumio Junior gives them all three.
Volunteer Chair / Committee
The club picture in one place — health, money, volunteers, safeguarding. Insights, Committee Suite, Revenue & Funding, and Club Profile. Built for the parents' committee that actually runs the club.
Lead Coach / Team Manager
Sessions, selection, matchday, ref bookings, travel. Coach Toolkit, Tactics, Player Development Tracker, Matchday Operations, Referees, Travel & Car-Share. Everything Saturday needs in one place.
Parent / Guardian
A front-row seat for your child's Sunday morning. Highlights, GPS, coach note, four-corner development view — and per-child consent management you control. Lumio Junior's paying customer.
Purpose-built for every role.
Whether you're in the boardroom or on the touchline — everyone on your team gets the tools built for their job.
Volunteer Chair / Committee
The club picture in one place — health, money, volunteers, safeguarding. Built for a parents' committee meeting, not a boardroom.
- 60-second weekend health-check across every age band
- Open committee actions with owners + due dates
- Per-quarter income vs outgoings in plain English
- Club-level safeguarding status line at every meeting
- Volunteer gaps visible before they bite Saturday
Free for the club. Funded by the parents.
Junior club tiers are optional upgrades for clubs that want the full toolkit. The flagship Parent App is billed per child to the parent — not to the club — so volunteer-run clubs pay nothing and parents get the experience they care about.
Junior Club — Starter
- ✓Safeguarding & Consent Hub
- ✓GDPR-safe by design — built around the Safeguarding & Consent Hub
- ✓Fixtures & Results — pluggable FA Full-Time / league / manual
- ✓Squad lists & registration
- ✓Volunteer Roles — the web of jobs that runs your team
- ✓Matchday Operations checklist
- ✓Club Profile
- ✓FA Charter Standard evidence pack
Junior Club — Pro
- ✓Everything in Starter
- ✓Unlimited teams across all age bands
- ✓Coach Toolkit — sessions, drills, FIFA-style player cards
- ✓Tactics, Training & Set Pieces — age-appropriate formations + drills
- ✓Match Video library — auto-clipped per-child highlights
- ✓Video & Analysis — coach-side tactical breakdowns
- ✓Player Development Tracker (FA four-corner)
- ✓GPS, Performance & Heatmaps — junior-conservative
- ✓Referees — booking, regional pool, develop, protect
- ✓Tournaments, Travel & Car-Share, Tours & Camps, Fundraising
Junior Academy
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓Academy Lead role with termly review sign-off
- ✓Cross-age-band development pathway view
- ✓AI Match Recap + AI Performance Brief
- ✓Committee Suite + Insights — chair's club-health view
- ✓Revenue & Funding dashboard with parent-app revenue share
- ✓Dedicated onboarding + priority support
Parent App
The platform is funded by parents, not billed to the club. Volunteer-run clubs on the Starter tier give every parent the Parent App without paying a penny themselves — Lumio bills the parents who opt in, the club gets the toolkit at no cost.
- ✓Per-child match recap, every Sunday
- ✓Your own child's highlight reel + GPS
- ✓Season timeline and keepsake archive
- ✓Fixtures, RSVPs, fees in one place
The platform youth football has been waiting for.
Try the Oakridge Juniors FC live demo — a Charter Standard development club running a full season on Lumio Junior, including the U11 Lions and the canonical Parent App view. Or apply for founding access to bring your own club on.