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Working
together to develop and recognise your Club
- Do you believe that your club should
develop its standards and be publicly recognised?
- If so, the England and Wales Cricket
Board (ECB) and Sport England welcome your commitment and wish
to work with you to support the development of your club.
- Clubmark is an integral part of the
ECB and Active Sports cricket development work with sports clubs.
- Clubmark - safe, effective, child-friendly
- Sport England has worked with National
Governing Bodies (NGB)s to develop core criteria for clubs -
to set standards to which they should all aspire.
- NGBs adopt these criteria within
their own development and accreditation programmes. All clubs
work through their NGB to gain Clubmark recognition
- Clubmark
- sets criteria in the following categories:
- Duty of care and child protection
- Coaching and competition
- Sports equity and ethics
- Club management.
- The development
of Clubmark by Sport England has two main objectives:
- To ensure that NGB accreditation
programmes contain the core criteria of a safe, effective and
child-friendly club
- To enable parents/carers and sports
professionals to recognise an accredited club through a common
branding.
- Gaining
accreditation will be challenging for many clubs.
- Some will already operate to the
standards set by NGBs, but many others will
need to undergo a considerable amount of development work.
- Clubs that commit to working towards
Clubmark accreditation will benefit from the support programmes
being developed by Sport England and NGBs.
- Clubmark
and Active Sports
- Active Sports is a partnership programme
between Sport England, local authorities, national governing
bodies and other agencies. Forty-five Sports Partnerships have
been created across the country to deliver the programme. Active
Sports aims to provide better quality coaching and competition
for those young people who wish to commit to playing sport regularly
in the community.
- The development of sports clubs providing
opportunities for children and young people is an integral part
of Active Sports. The 45 Sports Partnerships will work closely
with national governing bodies to provide support to clubs working
to improve their quality and gain accreditation.
- How your
club benefits from Clubmark accreditation
- Use of the Clubmark logo to promote
your club's achievement in reaching accreditation
- The support of professional officers
(e.g. Sports Development Officers and Cricket Development Officers)
in helping you achieve your goals
- The development of new opportunities
for young people to join your club
- Support from your local Sports Partnership
to achieve your goals
- Greater access to local workshops
and courses to help improve the skills and knowledge of your
volunteers.
- TOMORROW
- Part 2 The accreditation criteria
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