Club Development

This section provides information on developing and improving the performance of sports clubs.

Clubmark Accreditation

The Clubmark Accreditation scheme is a national quality accreditation scheme for clubs that work with children and young people. The scheme applies across a wide range of sports.

The scheme offers a nationally adopted set of standards for enabling National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport and their affiliated clubs to set and meet standards that will lead to better quality sports club provision for children and young people.

Clubmark provides clubs with the opportunity to develop to meet nationally recognised standards to ensure that they offer a Safe, Effective, Child Friendly environment.

4 areas are covered:

Duty of care and child protection
The playing programme
Sports equity and ethics
Club management

The benefits are:

Support from sports development professionals
Free or subsidised access to club development workshops
Access to a club development tool kit
Local and national recognition

The Club Development Tool Kit

The Club Development Toolkit has been developed at a county level by Northamptonshire Sport to help clubs in the region working towards accreditation. The toolkit provides access to a number of template documents and policies to assist the accreditation process.