Clubs
Sports clubs are at the heart of community sport, enabling people to take part in sport as a player, coach, official or volunteer. This section of the website has been designed to help people search for a quality club in Sussex, and also to support the clubs themselves. Here you will find information and advice on club accreditation, as well as links to club funding, training and development.
Club Accreditation
Clubmark is a club accreditation scheme which helps clubs to develop and be the best they can. Clubmark is essentially a kite mark for clubs, allowing parents the knowledge and confidence that their children are attending a safe quality club and ensuring that young people reach their full potential.
The Clubmark scheme provides a set of standard criteria, which allow clubs to evaluate where they are and help develop not only the club infrastructure but also other areas such as volunteering, membership and recruitment. Clubs are assessed against four areas:
1. Duty of Care and Child Protection
2. Playing Programme
3. Sports Equity and Ethics
4. Club Management
For more information, visit the clubmark website: www.clubmark.org.uk
Sussex Clubmark Information
Click here to view the Clubmark database accredited clubs. You can search by county, local authority and sport.
Click here for the latest 2009 Clubmark information specific to Sussex.
Click here for the 2009/10 annual Clubmark information specific to Sussex.
How can I become a Clubmark Club?
Clubs need to contact their National Governing Body as each sport uses different methods to measure whether their clubs have reached the agreed standards. Upon reaching these standards, clubs will be awarded their National Governing Body club accreditation. The following NGBs are licensed to deliver the accreditation scheme:
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Club Development
Workshops
Active Sussex sets up a programme of development workshops for clubs, their coaches and their volunteers. Some of these are an essential requirement for Clubmark. To view the full programme of workshops available, please visit the Club and Coach Workshops page.
A Safe Club
Please visit the Child Protection section of our website for advice and guidance on Safeguarding in Sport.
First Aid
Visit the First Aid page for information on First Aid workshops and courses.
Resources from runningsports
Visit www.runningsports.org for information and resources for club development. They have a range of workshops available, as well as useful Quick Guides that you can download and handy Top Tips!
Some examples;
For tips on how to organise a successful AGM, see the following attachment - AGM
For ideas on how to reward your club volunteers, see the following attachment - Rewarding Your Club Volunteers
School Club Links
A school-club link is an agreement between a school/college (or cluster of schools) and a community based sports club to work together to:
1. Meet the sporting needs of all young people, regardless of role
2. Provide new and varied sporting opportunities for young people
3. Help young people to realise their ambitions in sport by providing pathways for them to follow
4. Agree good standards of provision and put in place quality controls of club and school developments to ensure that overall standards remain high.
Active Sussex, the School Sport Partnerships and NGBs have developed some template documents to facilitate school club links. All clubs and schools use the documents to set out a shared approach to increasing safe and high quality activity for young people in school and community clubs. The documents are:
- Guidelines
- Pre Agreement Information
- Development Plan
Register your club on our online database!
If you would like to register your club on our searchable database, please email Michelle Collier mcollier@activesussex.org with all the information you want to share. Please make sure you put a contact name and phone number or email address, so that anyone interested knows who to contact.
