For sports clubs, youth groups and activity providers
Anonymise junior players in club and team photos
The winning goal, the U9s' first tournament, the end-of-season presentation. Post them without identifying a single child — tap the players and each one gets a brand-new face in about 20 seconds.
- ✓ 2 photos free
- ✓ No card
- ✓ About ~20 seconds
Where your photos go
Every place the club shares a photo.
Match reports
The weekend write-up with a real action shot, not a photo of the pitch.
Club social media
Facebook and Instagram posts that show players' smiles without naming or identifying them.
Tournaments and galas
Photos with children from several clubs in them — and no way of knowing who has consent.
Recruitment and sponsors
Posters, the club website and sponsor updates that show a thriving junior section.
The consent spreadsheet problem
Most clubs collect photo consent at registration. Then match day comes: a volunteer takes forty photos on their phone, and somebody has to check every face against a list before anything is posted. In a squad of fifteen there's almost always someone without consent — and at a tournament there are children from other clubs whose consent you've never seen.
So the photos sit in a camera roll, or go out with the wrong child in them. Safeguard fixes the photo instead of the spreadsheet: tap the players who can't be shown, and each gets a newly generated face that keeps their approximate age and expression, with complexion matched to their own neck and hands. The kit, the pitch and the moment stay exactly as they were.
What the safeguarding guidance says
NSPCC's guidance on photography and filming in sport asks clubs to get parental consent for children under 16, to remove children's names and other personal details from the images they publish, and to focus photos on the activity rather than the child. Anonymising faces sits comfortably alongside all of that — it doesn't replace consent, but it means a missing form no longer has to mean a missing photo.
If your club's consent form needs a refresh, our free photo consent form covers social media, websites and anonymised images. For the wider picture, see Can schools post photos of children? — the same principles apply to clubs.
Still check your governing body's policy
Your national governing body or league may have its own photography rules — for example around swimming, gymnastics or tagging players. Safeguard works within them; it doesn't override them.
Priced for club budgets
Every account starts with 2 free photos, no card (free photos are watermarked). Then buy a pack when you need one: 50 photos for £19, 200 for £49 or 500 for £99 — no subscription, no expiry, and never charged for a photo that fails. See pricing for the details.
After the final whistle
Posted before the drive home.
- 01
Upload from your phone
JPG, PNG or iPhone photos — the ones you just took on the touchline.
- 02
Tap the players to change
Just the ones without consent, or “Change all” for a public post. Coaches can stay as they are.
- 03
Download and post
About 20 seconds a photo. Redo any face you're not happy with, then share the match report.
Half the squad has consent and half doesn't. What do we do?
We're run by volunteers. How hard is it to use?
Does it work on action shots?
Is there a subscription for the club to manage?
What happens to the photos we upload?
Your match report can have players in it.
Try it on two of your own photos now. No card, nothing to install, no subscription.
Anonymise 2 photos free →- ✓ 2 photos free
- ✓ No card
- ✓ About ~20 seconds