Case study · Daventry RFC · Season 2026/27

One club. Every section. The real work.

Five senior sides, a junior section and a clubhouse. Everything on this page was made for Daventry's own pages, in Daventry's red and black, never ours. This is what a season with us actually looks like.

Every side, billed like the first team.

Season posters for the 1XV, the 2XV and the 3XV. The Valkyries get the same billing as the men. When the 3XV get the same treatment as the firsts, the whole club shows up in the feed.

Daventry 1XV season poster: Josh Hutchinson re-signed, lineout catch in red and black
1XV · Josh Hutchinson, re-signed
Daventry 2XV season poster: hard to beat every week
2XV · Hard to beat every week
Daventry 3XV season poster: the proving ground
3XV · The proving ground
The Valkyries season poster: the squad on the pitch, games throughout the season
The Valkyries · Games all season

The feed, before and after.

The club's feed before: phone photos of training and matchdays, posted as they came The club's feed after: the same club as finished posts in its own colours Before After

Before: the club's own phone photos, posted as they came. Nobody's fault. Nobody's job.

After: the same club, the same photos, told properly. In their colours, every section, every week.

The people who never get paid.

Volunteers keep clubs going. The volunteer series names them in public, one a week, and volunteers get shared by everyone who knows them. Captains speak in their own words, never ours.

Volunteer of the week: Steve Ashfield and the grounds team, over a photo of the pitch
Volunteer of the week · Steve Ashfield & the grounds team
Quote card: Phatphi Dip, 3XV captain, in his own words
Captain's words · Phatphi Dip, 3XV
Quote card: Ben Bennett, 2XV captain, in his own words
Captain's words · Ben Bennett, 2XV

Thirteen seconds of Tuesday.

Reel · Tuesday night · the team run, the Newnham hill sprint, the tackle bags. Silent on purpose.

Cut from phone footage shot at training. Posted the next morning, when the people who were there share it and the people who weren't wish they had been.

New players find the club.

The Valkyries needed players, so we built the campaign: the rugby, and the rest of it. Posters made to be forwarded on WhatsApp with no caption attached. And when Josh Hutchinson re-signed, the whole town knew about it.

Valkyries recruitment poster: fun, fitness, friendship, the squad off the pitch
Valkyries campaign · Fun, fitness, friendship
Josh Hutchinson re-signed hero poster: portrait with signed stamp and autograph
Re-signed · Josh Hutchinson, 1XV vice captain
Round One heritage poster: 26.09, every side, black and white club photos
Round One · The season starts here

The drumbeat, every week.

Monday gets the week board. Matchday gets a poster. The team sheet gets a carousel. It runs whether the first team are home or away.

This week board: every training night and fixture for the week of 7 September
Monday, 8am · The week board
Match day poster: Daventry RFC v Old Leamingtonians, player portrait
Saturday, 9am · Match day
Team news carousel slide: Daventry RFC v Old Leamingtonians
Friday, 7pm · Team news

Sponsors can see what they're buying.

Pitch boards at £300 a season, sold with a graphic the committee can forward. The U23s' first kit with the sponsor slots drawn on. A partners wall with every local business named. Sponsors' Day in every diary.

Pitch boards graphic: places available, £300 for the season
Pitch boards · £300 for the season
U23s kit sponsorship graphic: your logo here, three slots on the first kit
U23s kit · Your logo here
Sponsors Day save the date: Saturday 19 September, 1XV v Broadstreet II
Sponsors' Day · Save the date

The clubhouse TV loop names every partner, refreshed monthly, on the screen everyone watches while they wait at the bar. Partners' names stay the club's, so it isn't shown here.

What all of this does for the club.

More people at the game

Posts go out when people are making plans, not after. The bar, the servery and what's on the clubhouse TV are on every matchday post.

New players find the club

The Valkyries campaign is built to be forwarded on WhatsApp. The U23s launched in August with their own posts from day one.

Volunteers get their due

The people who mark the lines get named in public, weekly. Volunteers get shared by everyone who knows them.

Sponsors renew

Every mention is listed in the monthly report, so renewals come with proof, and the clubhouse TV names every partner, every week.

The committee knows

One page a month, in plain English: what was seen, who shared it, which sponsor got the most eyes.

Real numbers · Daventry RFC, August 2026

125,090

Views, up 14%

+265%

Reels

+54%

Shares. The number that fills a bar.

Five fixtures were cancelled by weather and there was no home game. Followers moved 2,153 to 2,160. Reach moves first; follows lag.

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