Club Development & Increasing Participation
Clumark Accreditation
What is Clubmark?
- Sport England’s Clubmark Accreditation is designed to recognise
and reward clubs that stand apart from the rest in terms of good
practice.
- Clubmark is a cross-sport quality accreditation award that
ensures clubs provide an equitable, inclusive, friendly, well-run
and most importantly safe environment.
- Clubmark is built around a set of core criteria which ensures
that accredited clubs operate to s set of consistent, accepted and
adopted minimum operating standards;
- Duty of Care & Child Protection
- Coaching & Competition
- Sports Equity & Ethics
- Club Management
What are the benefits of Clubmark?
- Receive assistance and input from sports development
professionals to further your club,
- Improve the clubs current level of structure, organisation and
resources, to ensure it runs more effectively and efficiently,
- Discounts on all Sports Coach UK workshops,
- Improve promotion and communication of the club utilizing the
Clubmark logo and other brand resources to generate publicity,
- Increase membership levels to create a sustained future for the
club,
- Increase success of funding opportunities by presenting the
club as a quality standard club.
Working towards Clubmark Accreditation?
For more information visit the Clubmark website
Clubs wanting to work towards accreditation can receive support
and advice from their NGB, or contact;
Guthrie Miller - Club Development & Volunteer Officer at KCC
Sport, Leisure & Olympics
Tel: 01622 605338 / guthrie.miller@kent.gov.uk
Sarah Philpott - Sports & Leisure Officer at Dover
District Council
Tel: 01304 872446 / sarah.philpott@dover.gov.uk
Coach Education
Quality coaches are an essential ingredient in developing
participation in sport as a healthy activity, as well as to help
raise standards of performance and promote excellence.
For information on National Governing Body of Sport (NGB)
Coaching Courses,
visit the relevant NGB via the Sport
England website.
For information on Sport Coach UK Courses, such as;
- A Club for All
- Equity in your Coaching
- Emergency First Aid
- Safeguarding & Protecting Children
Visit the Kent Sports Development Unit's coaching
webpages for the latest courses.
Sports Development Planning
Sports Development Plans are essential ingredients for any
successful funding application. Need support to write a plan? Then
take a look at Sport England's guidance
notes and template
sports development plan.
Developing links between Sports Clubs and Schools
The Dover District Schools
Sports Partnership (DDSSP) has been improving the quality and
provision of physical education in schools across the Dover
District. Teaching and non teaching staff from primary, special and
secondary schools, as well as parents, volunteers, coaches and
community club representatives are coming together to improve the
sporting provision.
The DDSSP also work with a number of local, county-wide and
national agencies including; Vista Leisure Trust, KCC's
Extended School Services, Kent Sport Leisure & 2012
Games, Dover District Council,East Kent Health Promotion,
Healthy Schools, Department of Children, Schools and Families, and
the Youth Sport Trust.
The DDSSP is based at
Castle Community College in Deal which has recently been
nationally awarded Sports College of the Year. The team is made up
of a Partnership Development Manager (PDM), an Assistant PDM and 6
School Sport Co-ordinators (SSCOs).
For more information please visit Dover District School Sport
Partnership or contact 01304 373363
Disability Sport
For more information on Disability Sport, please visit the
KCC Sport,
Leisure & 2012 Games webpages
More information coming to this section soon.
Contact Community & Leisure Services
Sarah Philpott - Sport & Leisure Officer
Tel: 01304 872446
E-mail: sarahphilpott@dover.gov.uk
