Community
Most of the people in a grassroots highlight are children. Everything about how Recap works follows from that.
Safeguarding is the starting point, not a policy page
Recap is built around closed team spaces. Recognition comes from the people who were at the game.
Highlights go to your team and to the people you choose to send them to. There is no open public feed to be pulled into, no dislike counts, and no comment thread for a pile-on to form in.
Content that identifies a young player beyond a first name and a team is not allowed. No full names, no schools, no addresses, in titles, descriptions or overlays. Whoever records is responsible for having the right to, and for the consent of the people in shot. Parents decide what leaves the app.
Anything that sexualises, exploits or endangers a child is removed and reported. There is no threshold on that one and no second chance.
Officials are part of the game. Disagreeing with a decision is fine. Sustained abuse of a referee is not, and neither is content that exists only to intimidate one. Discriminatory abuse gets no tolerance at all. In serious cases we report it to the relevant authorities or governing bodies.
We live the Grassroots Code
The FA’s Grassroots Code sets the standard for behaviour in the English game: enjoy the game, give respect, be inclusive, work together, play safe. We agree with all five, and they are written into the guidelines above along with the Respect codes of conduct that sit under them.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding
Investing in the community
Recap buys the shirts at grassroots clubs. Whetstone Wanderers first, and more from there.
Grassroots football runs on subs, raffles and parents who give up their Sundays. A set of shirts for one age group is a few hundred pounds, out of the same pot as pitch hire, league fees and referees. It is the kind of cost that decides whether a club can put out another team or has to turn players away.
Recap is shirt sponsor of three teams at Whetstone Wanderers, and of the girls' team at Hampstead Garden Suburb Soccer School. Badge on the front, worn every week, in the rain, on a pitch with a hedge for a stand.
HGS started in a park with ten children. It now has more than 750 playing, from three years old to eighteen, and runs a girls-only Sunday league of its own. That happened because people kept turning up on Sunday mornings for years, not because anyone funded it.
Those clubs are the ones we film. The highlights coming out of the app are made on pitches like theirs, by players like theirs, so that is where the money goes back to.
Nobody at a grassroots club is doing this for the money. They are doing it so twenty children get a game on a Sunday. Paying for the shirts is the least a company built on their football can do.
This is the start of it, not the whole of it. If you run a team and you want Recap on your shirts, get in touch.
Grassroots
Grassroots