A life in football does not end when you stop playing.
Most people leave the game in their teens and never come back, not because they stopped loving it but because nobody showed them the other doors. There are three here, and the club pays for all of them.
Football is unusually good at teaching things that have nothing to do with football. Standing in front of twelve nine year olds and holding their attention for an hour is public speaking. Telling a shouting adult they are wrong, calmly, is a skill most people never acquire. Running a team's fixtures for a season is project management, and it looks like it on a personal statement.
None of that is why we do it. We do it because the club is run entirely by volunteers and it stops working the moment people stop stepping forward. But it is true, and it is worth saying to a fifteen year old wondering whether any of this is for them.
You do not need to have been a good player. Several of our best coaches never played seriously at all. What you need is to turn up when you said you would, which is most of it.
The three pathways
All three are funded by the club. All three are open from 14.
Coaching
The club pays. You turn up.
Every qualification you need to coach here is funded by the club: your DBS, your safeguarding, your introduction to football and your first aid.
Refereeing
A qualification worth about £140, for five Saturday mornings.
The club pays your course and registration in full. In return you referee five club matches free, then you are paid at standard league rates like any other official.
Youth Voice
The club is run by adults. It should not only be shaped by them.
A young people's committee with a real route into how the club is run, so the people the club is for have a say in what it becomes.
Not sure which one?
Say so and we will talk it through. Nobody has ever been turned away for asking, and there is no commitment in a conversation.
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