Youth sports fundraising
Big goals take the whole team.
Back The Side turns your roster into a fundraiser your whole community can get behind. Easy for coaches, simple for donors, and private for every kid on the list.
Why teams use Back The Side
Easy for everyone
Set up the fundraiser, invite parents, share a link. No training, no app to download.
More of it reaches the team
Costs are shown up front, and donors can choose to cover them.
Private by default
Player pages are unlisted and unsearchable. Parents choose what shows.
What you’re raising for
Every team is raising for something specific.
- Uniforms
- Equipment
- The tournament three hours away
- Field and facility time
- Registration help for a family having a hard year
Set the number, say what it’s for, and let everyone watch it move.
Three steps
A coach sets it up. A parent decides the rest.
01 — COACH
Name the team and the goal
Add your roster and your colours. Every player’s invitation goes to their parent, never to a child.
02 — PARENT
Choose what appears
First name, initial, jersey number, or nothing at all. A live preview shows the exact page a visitor gets, before anything goes out.
03 — EVERYONE
Share it and watch it move
Text the link to family. Print the QR code for the concession stand. The team follows one running total.
The page itself
Built for a grandmother on a phone.
Big type, one button, nothing to navigate. It works exactly the same for a teammate’s dad texting from the sideline. The mascot below is a real option a parent picked instead of a photo.
Complete without a photo
The layout was designed empty first, so a card with no photo doesn’t look unfinished and no parent gets quietly pressured into adding one.
One clear action
One amount, one button, a payment form people recognise. Nothing to sign up for and no account to create.
A receipt that adds up
Every donation gets a receipt showing what the team receives and what the costs were.
The money
No surprises, in either direction.
One number, and it covers everything
Back The Side costs 5% of what your team raises. Card processing comes out of that, not out of your total on top, so it is the only deduction there is. Your donors are never asked to pay it and never offered a box to add anything on. The rate is fixed to your campaign the day it launches.
Totals come from a ledger
Every figure on your dashboard is derived from recorded transactions rather than a running counter, so refunds, fees and payouts reconcile. Donors see the same arithmetic on their receipt before they give.
Privacy
Everyone sees the total. No one sees your kid.
Fundraising shouldn’t cost a family their privacy.
- Unlisted and unsearchable. No directory, no site search, nothing to browse.
- Parents choose what appears, from a first name down to nothing at all.
- Photos are optional, and a page without one looks finished rather than empty.
- A parent can revoke the link, and the QR codes stop working with it.
- No per-child view counts. Nothing that turns a kid into a leaderboard.
Free to start
Your team has a goal. Go get it.
Set up your fundraiser and invite your parents. Your community will do more than you expect.
Tax-deductibility depends on your organisation’s registration, and receipts say exactly what applies to yours. The Huddle is a technology provider, not a charity, and is not a law firm — nothing here is legal advice.