Every one of us is a volunteer.
There are no paid staff here. Every coach, every manager, every person marking a pitch on a Saturday morning is a parent who put their hand up. 155 people, giving roughly two hours a week each.
This is good for you, not just for us.
Clubs usually ask for volunteers by explaining what happens if nobody comes forward. That is true here, but it is not the interesting part.
Volunteering at around 100 hours a year, roughly two hours a week, is associated with a substantially reduced risk of death over follow-up, and with a meaningfully slower rate of cognitive ageing. It is one of the better-evidenced things an adult can do for their own health, and it sits alongside the exercise, the company and the standing outdoors on a Saturday morning that come with it anyway.
We think about this club as a health service that happens to play football. That includes the adults. A parent who coaches is getting the same thing out of it their child is: something to turn up for, people who notice when you do not, and a reason to be outside.
Our volunteers give around 108 hours each a year. If you are on the edge of offering, that is what you would be joining.
The social value this club generates every year through volunteering alone. That is our 155 volunteers at Sport England's figure of £2,100 per weekly volunteer per year.
Rounded down. The rate is the wellbeing value of adult volunteering in sport, valued using the Treasury's WELLBY method. Sport England, The social value of sport and physical activity in England, primary value report, November 2025.
What you get back
Volunteering here is not a favour you do us for nothing.
Where we need people
Three kinds of help. Pick the kind that sounds like you and read the ones underneath it, rather than working down a list of sixteen job titles.
Team roles
Attached to one team, usually your child's. The most common way in, and the easiest to picture.
Coaches helper
Help at training. No badge, no team to run, no Saturdays unless you want them.
Coach
Plan and lead sessions for a team. The role the club most needs.
Team manager
Run the team off the pitch, so the coach can concentrate on the football.
Team administrator
Keep the team's paperwork straight. Mostly registrations, kit and subs.
Team content generator
Tell your team's story. Two photos and a sentence a month, and your team stops being invisible.
Age group coordinator
Our person on the ground for one year group. You link the coaches and admins across the age group and tell the committee what is really happening.
Referee
The club pays for your course, and you get paid for the games. We are always short.
Committee and club roles
Work that serves the whole club rather than one team. Often the most flexible, because almost none of it happens on a Saturday.
Grant writer
Find the funding and write the bids. Quiet, self-paced work that changes what the club can afford to do.
Facilities manager
Pitches, pavilions and the long argument with the council about all of it.
Alumni officer
Keep former players and families part of the club after they stop playing.
WhatsApp communications officer
Keep sixty team groups working, and keep what the club says in them consistent.
School liaison officer
Be our link with one local school, alongside the Schools Coordinator. One person per school.
Committee member
Help run the club. Meetings monthly, work in between, and a real vote on what happens.
Health champion
Take our health programme into the teams: nutrition, mental health, sleep, strength, and the conversations nobody else is having.
Youth Committee
For players themselves. Have a say in how the club is run, and be listened to.
Events and the tournament
Finite, dateable and done. If you want to help without signing up to a season, start here.
Tournament committee
Plan our biggest weekend of the year, 26 and 27 June 2027. Entries, pitches, catering, sponsors, the lot.
Tournament day helper
Give a couple of hours across the tournament weekend. Car parking, the cafe, the gazebo, results.
Club events and socials
Presentation day, the awards evening, the Friday nights at Five Mile Drive.
For our players
Not everything here is for parents.
Youth Committee
For players from about twelve upwards. Have a say in how the club is run, and be listened to.
What it involves →What every role has in common
We put everyone through a DBS check and the FA's safeguarding course. Not only the coaches. There are very few roles here that never bring you near a child, and drawing a fussy line between them costs more than simply clearing everybody. Both are free and we arrange them.
The DBS takes two to four weeks, which is why we start it the day you say yes rather than at the end of a long form. Until it comes back you are welcome at sessions, but always alongside someone who is already cleared.
Everything else, including the coaching course and first aid, is paid for by the club and can be done after you have started. All our coaches are first aid trained, so that is one thing you do not have to worry about on the touchline.