Clubmark newsletter - September 2008
News
Kent awarded a licence to accredit Clubmark
Kent Sports Development Unit is the latest county sports partnership to be awarded a licence to accredit Clubmark, becoming the eighth CSP to receive this prestigious award.
ECB announces its 1,000th Clubmark club
The ECB has announced that Uppingham Town CC in Leicestershire is to be the 1,000th cricket club to receive the coveted ECB Clubmark, five years after Elvaston CC from Derbyshire became the first.
ECB Head of Development, Pete Ackerley, made the presentation to Uppingham Town CC at the NatWest Series one-day international at Trent Bridge.
Radcliffe AS obtain Clubmark for Angling
Young anglers in Bury are accessing quality coaching delivered by newly Clubmark accredited NFA club Radcliffe AS.
Get qualified in Cumbria and Lancashire
Do you want to improve your skills as a coach or sports leader? The University of Cumbria has been awarded £250,000 by Sport England to support the growth of training and skills in the sports sector, including outdoor sports.
100th Golf Club awarded GOLFMARK status
Birchwood Golf Club, Warrington is the 100th golf club in England to be awarded GolfMark recognition after successfully achieving the national standard.
The Cheshire club has worked closely with EGU/EWGA Regional Development Officer John Stoszkowski to develop its junior section which now has more than 50 members and their own website.
Case Studies
A successful approach to re-accreditation
The first athletics club in the East Midlands to achieve Clubmark Accreditation - now the first to go through Clubmark Re-Accreditation.
..."We have benefited so much from going through the Clubmark Accreditation process and for us to go through the Re-accreditation process just reinforces the importance for our club to follow good practice. The process was a fantastic opportunity to see what areas our club have excelled in but more importantly where our clubs needs to improve."
Sharing the experience of re-accreditation
Belper Hockey Club recently achieved re-accreditation and would like to share their experience to help clubs that are about to embark on a similar journey...
Spotlight on
Spotlight on...Tony Atherton
Tony Atherton is the Director of Rugby at Caldy RFC on the Wirral, Merseyside. His role involves overseeing anything and everything to do with rugby at the club, from the first team down to the under sevens. He rejoined the club six years ago, after an earlier spell with Caldy in the 1980s.
Spotlight on...Jo Dwyer
Jo Dwyer first became involved in Gymnastics through her daughters participation in the sport nine years ago. After picking up a keen interest in gymnastics through watching her daughter in competition, Jo became an active committee member at Erewash Valley Gymnastics Club in Derbyshire, East Midlands.
Spotlight on...Diane Stafford
Diane Stafford has been involved with Tyldesley Swimming and Water Polo Club for 22 years since her children started swimming at the club.
Spotlight on... Bob Healey
Bob Healey is the Training Officer of Tameside Divers. He deals with the organising of training courses for members and applying for grants to help pay for the courses.
He has been involved with the club for nine years after he took his son to the Club when he was six because he wanted to learn to snorkel and somehow got involved and learned himself.
Spotlight on... Tarquinn Stephenson
Tarquinn Stephenson is the Coach/Welfare Officer of Colchester Gladiators American Football Club. He is primarily responsible for the safety and well-being of the guys he coaches but also coaching them and developing their own skill set within the sport.
Did you know...
....Clubmark clubs are required to re-accredit every three or four years (depending upon NGB/CSP accreditation period). NGBs have worked hard to ensure that the re-accreditation process is as simple and straightforward as possible whilst ensuring that the standards are maintained. There are more than 1,400 clubs that will embark upon re-accreditation by the end of 2009 and we recognise that this is an important aspect of the Clubmark process.
Our advice is to use your Clubmark file as a working document rather than gathering dust on the shelf. This will help to maintain your clubs records such as; coaching certificates, committee minutes and insurance certificates etc.
We also recommend that you review your development plan to recognise successes since accreditation and identify outstanding actions required. Take time to reflect and also to look forward, planning for further developments. This is a great time to ensure that strengths are recognised, weaknesses addressed, opportunities are seized and threats thwarted!
Those clubs that have successfully achieved re-accreditation tell us that they value the process of continuous improvement which ensures that good practice and minimum operating standards are maintained.
Re-accreditation gives a clear message of commitment and reassures clubs working towards accreditation that Clubmark is a robust, sustainable, quality assured programme providing accessible and safe sporting opportunities for young people to participate in sport.
Summary of accredited clubs
Congratulations to those clubs accredited over the summer!
As there have been more than 250 clubs accredited during June, July and August we could not list them all here! Instead download the list here to find a newly accredited club near you...
