# Group conversations — LEKKIN help

> Talk to a chosen set of people: some of your staff, adult players and guardians. Give the group a name and a picture, and add or take out people.

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# Group conversations

Team HubThe club's staff start groups. Adult players and guardians can be in them3 min read

Sometimes the whole team is too many and one person too few: the kit committee, the tournament drivers, the coaches and two parents. A group is for them.

## Starting a group

1.  Open **Messages**, on its list of conversations.
2.  Press the round **+** button in the bottom corner and choose **New group**. (Inside a conversation the button is for writing in it, so go back to the list first.)
3.  Give it a **name**, tick the people to add, and press **Start the group**. You’re in it too.

It opens straight away. Everybody in it can read and write, as in any group chat.

## Who can be in a group

-   **The club’s staff**: its admins, secretary, team management, welfare officer, and the managers and coaches of its teams.
-   **Adult players**: players with no guardian recorded at the club.
-   **Guardians**: a player who has a guardian recorded is reached through their guardian, and is never in a group themselves.

Your club may keep some groups out, such as its youth squads, as it can for direct messages. Somebody who stops qualifying stops seeing the group at once.

## Running a group

On a computer a group’s details are beside the conversation; on a phone, press **Group details** above it. Whoever started the group, the club’s admins and team management, and the staff of the team it was started from can:

-   **rename it** and **change its picture**;
-   **add people** (the same people as above) and **take people out**;
-   **close it**: nobody can read or write in it after that;
-   **pin a message** at the top of the group for everyone, with the pin beside it. See [Pinning a message](/help/team/team-messages/#pinning-a-message).

Anybody in a group can **leave** it from Group details.

## Polls in a group

Whoever runs the group can ask a poll in it, such as which date suits the club social. In the group, press the button in the bottom corner and choose **New poll**, then add your answers; the choices are the same as a poll in the team’s messages. Everyone in the group answers for themselves. Other members can write in the group as usual, but only the people running it can ask a poll, see who answered what, send the one reminder or close it.

## Things to know

-   **The club’s welfare officer can read every group**, as they can every team’s messages, and anyone can report a message to them.
-   **Nothing can be edited or deleted once it’s posted.**
-   **You’re told when somebody writes**, saying who and in which group, never what. Adult players and guardians see their groups in the [Player Hub](/help/player/team-messages/).

Still stuck? [Tell us what you were trying to do](/contact/).