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Youth Committee

For players themselves. Have a say in how the club is run, and be listened to.

A meeting every few weeks, in term time

How many hours
A meeting every few weeks in term time.
Where it sits
Youth Committee, which reports to the main committee
Is there a budget
No budget attached to this role.

What you would do

  • Meet a few times a season to talk about what the club is like to play for
  • Bring things up that adults miss, because you are the ones on the pitch
  • Help with things you are better at than we are, from social media to running sessions for the younger ones
  • Take a view on decisions that affect players, and have that view carried to the main committee

What the club gives you

  • A real say. Whatever you agree goes to the club committee, and someone reports back on what happened to it
  • Something worth putting on a personal statement or a CV, and a reference from the Chair if you want one
  • Support from the club welfare officers, who are there for you rather than for the committee

What is required

Be a player at the club

Any age from about twelve upwards. You do not need to be a captain or the best player in your team, and it helps if you are not only that sort of person.

A parent or carer knows you are doing it

We will ask them to confirm before your first meeting. Nothing else is needed from them.

What is not required

  • No DBS. You are a player, not an adult working with children.
  • No experience of committees, which almost nobody has at any age.

Being straight with you

Worth knowing before you say yes rather than three weeks in.

  • Under 18s are never alone with an adult at a meeting. There are always at least two adults present, one of them a welfare officer.
  • If you take on anything involving younger children, an adult is responsible for the session and you are helping. That is the FA's rule for everybody under 18 and it is not a comment on you.
  • Some things are not ours to decide. Money, safeguarding and anything about an individual person go to the main committee, and we will tell you why rather than just saying no.

Where it can lead

Plenty of Youth Committee members go on to help with coaching once they turn sixteen, and the club pays for the courses.

What happens after you click

  1. 1You tell us you are interested. Four questions, about a minute.
  2. 2Our Volunteer Coordinator gets in touch, usually within a couple of days.
  3. 3We start your DBS straight away, because it is the slow part.
  4. 4You do the safeguarding course at home, in your own time.
  5. 5You start. Alongside someone experienced until you would rather not be.
I am interested

Not a commitment. It starts a conversation.