Club Accreditation
Aim of Club Accreditation;
To help clubs to develop to be the best they can be!
Enabling young people to reach their full potential, and to allow parents the knowledge and confidence that their children are attending a safe quality club.
What is club accreditation?
Club Accreditation is also known as Clubmark, which is the Sport England’s Club Accreditation scheme. This provides a set of standard criteria, which allows clubs to evaluate where they are and helps clubs develop not only their infrastructure but also other areas such as volunteering, membership and recruitment.
Clubs are assessed against four areas:
- Playing Programme
- Sports Equity and Ethics
- Club Management
- Duty of Care and Child Protection
Clubmark not only allows clubs to develop, but also allows participants, players parents, local authorities and schools to assess how good a club is by looking for the accreditation logo, whatever the sport.
Why is Clubmark important for a club?
It provides guidelines for clubs to work within to ensure safe practice, volunteer development and recruitment.
It helps clubs to evaluate their current position, and helps to develop a sound infrastructure to improve. It also gives access to funding pots that are not available to clubs which are not Club Mark accredited.
The benefits:
- Coach Development information
- Clubmark and National Governing Body resources to assist with working towards Accreditation
- Funding Opportunities information
- Volunteer information
- Partnership circulars/information
- Profile coaches who are involved in the delivery of the Active Sport Programme
- Professional support in developing High Quality School-club links
- Access to coach/volunteer development programme/workshops – subsidised/free of charge
- Increased profile – via website, newsletters, Borough leaflets, youth sport directory etc
- Club Development information
For more information on Club Accreditation contact Laura Heslop on 0161 770 1641 or Francesca Evans on 0161 770 3682