Club Accreditation

What is it?

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.

What are the benefits of club accreditation to your 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. Any club with junior members can go through the Clubmark process.

How can Oldham Sport Development help with our accreditation?

Our Club development officers will assist your club with the accreditation process, meeting with the club to explain the process and working alongside the club to complete the accreditation file. We will also find places on any courses that club members may need to complete as part of the Clubmark process.

For more information speak to Heather Cox 0161 770 3050 or Laura Heslop 0161 770 3682

The following clubs in Oldham have achieved Clubmark or their National Governing Body own recognition scheme. (Such as FA charter Standard.)

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