Clubs

Sports clubs enable you to take part in sport as a player, coach, official or volunteer. Whether you want to try a new sport for the first time, join a team or develop your skills, the Sussex CSP is here to help you.

Club Accreditation

Clubmark is a club accreditation scheme which helps clubs to develop and be the best they can be. 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

Sussex Clubmark Information

Please see the following document for Clubmark information specific to Sussex - Sussex Clubmark Information

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. For further information on which NGBs are licensed to deliver the accreditation scheme, visit the Clubmark website: www.clubmark.org.uk

 

Club Development

The Sussex CSP sets up a programme of development workshops for clubs, their coaches and their volunteers. Some of these are an essential requirement for Clubmark. To find out when a workshop might be coming to your area, please click here.

A Safe Club

Please visit the Child Protection section of our website for advice and guidance on Safeguarding in Sport.

Club resources from runningsports

Please visit www.runningsports.org for information and resources for club development.

Click here for runingsports’s tips on how to organise a successful AGM

For ideas on how to reward your club volunteers, please see the following attachment - Rewarding Your Club Volunteers

 

Register your club on our online database!

If you would like to register your club on our searchable database, please email Michelle Collier mcollier@brighton.ac.uk 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.