Club Accreditation

Gaining accreditation demonstrates that a club has addressed issues such as equality and child protection and gives confidence to parents who are choosing a club for their children.

Sport England's Clubmark is a cross-sport quality accreditation scheme for clubs with junior sections.

They have produced a 'Pathway to accreditation' so you can answer some questions in order to find out which organisation to contact to register an interest.

For further information please visit Clubmark.

County Durham Sport, as part of a North East CSP panel, can accredit your club if you have a non-accrediting National Governing Body. For more information, please contact Catherine Watson on 0191 372 9120 or email catherine.watson@durham.gov.uk

'The document below will provide you with more information on club accreditation, what it involves, which sports can become accredited and the support available for clubs.

Please find attached the latest CSP benchmarking report, produced by KKP to cover the period from September 2010 to September 2011, including national, regional and local information on the number of sports clubs that have achieved and are working towards Clubmark. The report has been extended to also include information on volunteering and national sports participation.

Click here to view Sept 2010 - Sept 2011

See the 2010 figures

Running Sports has recently produced guidance on how their courses can help attain Clubmark accreditation. They have put together a list of their courses grouped by which of the four areas of Clubmark they support.

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