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Community Sporting Group in Teams
Hope this is the correct group. I'm interested in getting some support during Covid19 in keeping my team, 140 junior football referees together whilst the crisis has enforced suspension of the seaso...
Hi, did you ever get anywhere with this? We are a local refereeing society in England are have been using Teams Free throughout lockdown like yourself. We are restricted by the same limitations as you were, just wondering what you ended up doing? Would be great to be able to sign our members up to this to keep active and interested.
- Hey StHRLRS,
I did actually get a Microsoft representative to help / speak on the phone about the particulars of being a community football group (Referees). The solution was to leverage the not for profit status that the league we referee for/within. The idea was that once the NFP status was confirmed by Microsoft, this reduced the cost per head to $2.00 AUD per month but with 200 refereeing members, still $4800 per year from the leagues refereeing development budget. As such it wasn't approved by the budget holders and I've since left the role. As such, the group is still working (poorly) in Facebook as their communication platform and I can't help but think Microsoft needs to review how they approach community sporting groups who have a similar need with a view to it being free but fully functional and would serve to get young people seeing the value of Teams and perhaps generate life long users. I find the development of Teams has made it even more valuable since my original post, almost a year ago, but unfortunately their perspective seems to be on driving profits, not supporting the greater community.
