CLUBMARK
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ClubMark – ECB and Sport England working together to help your club get the recognition it deserves

If your club takes the welfare of its junior members seriously and wants to provide a junior section that is recognised as be well organised the ECB ClubMark accreditation scheme is for you.

ClubMark has been developed with Sport England to set down a set of simple criteria and a support process for you to work through that will enable you to gain accreditation.

ClubMark will benefit your club in a number of ways such as :

• Support from your CDO and County Cricket Board
• Support from your Local Authority Sports Development Officer
• Support from your County Sports Partnership
• Help with long term planning
• Help promote your club to the local community
• Help with advice and applying for grant aid
• Help to develop your coaches and volunteers
• Priority for grant aid sources such as the Community Club Development Fund

More importantly the ClubMark logo can be carried on any club literature and promotional materials which confirms your commitment to a safe child friendly junior section which will appeal to :

• Local Parents
• Local School Teachers
• Local Community Groups
• Funding Agencies
• Local Authority Sports Development Teams
• Commercial Sponsors

Getting your club registered for the ClubMark scheme could not be easier. Just contact your Cricket Development Officer who will be able to send you a very simple and straight forward Registration Form to complete.

You will be expected to fulfill specific criteria based around the following areas :

• Duty of care and child welfare
• Coaching and competition
• Sports equity and ethics
• Club Management

Once registered ECB will send you, via your CDO, the following to help you work towards ClubMark :

• A Cricket Assessment File that outlines the key criteria that need to met and the evidence you need to produce to show you have met the criteria.
• A Resource Pack that gives you much of the information you will need to use to gain ClubMark accreditation such as copies of :

· A Model Club Constitution

· Model codes of conduct· Model equity policy

· Model volunteer job descriptions

· Model accident report forms

· Model attendance registers

In addition your CDO and County Sports Partnership will be able to offer you free and/or heavily subsidised places on some key training courses aimed at bringing you and your coaches/volunteers up to date with the latest in Child Welfare issues.

There are no time limits for the completion of ClubMark accreditation. Every club will be different in the people it has available and for some clubs it may take a few months for others it may take longer – the pace is driven by your club.

By August 2002 there were 30 clubs registered, by July 2003 there were over 450. If you want to join the ever growing number of clubs involved in the scheme and get the credit it deserves for the care it takes of your junior members contact your CDO now and get registered.

Alternatively, call the WCB office and we will post one to you!
0121 446 3615