Sport clubs
Get involved in sport in Knowsley with a fantastic
choice of sports clubs to choose from, including football,
swimming, martial arts, boxing and many more. Use
the club directory and find our club pages to make
finding your perfect sports club even easier.
Become an accredited sports club
Becoming an accredited sports club helps to reassure the
community that your club is safe, effective and child friendly.
Your club can be accredited in two ways:
Clubmark
A national scheme which accredits clubs that comply with the
minimum standards in four specific areas.
- The Playing programme
- Duty of care and safeguarding and protecting
children
- Sports equity and ethics
- Club management
Knowsley Clubmark
A local accreditation which validates clubs that do not have a
National Governing Body of Sport (NGB) Clubmark accreditation
scheme, but comply with all the minimum operating standards
required. The accreditation recognises the development and
commitment of clubs that are deemed safe, effective and child
friendly. It also validates and recognises clubs with adult
participation only.
Register your club online
If your club is not yet signed up for Clubmark, or you want more
information please contact Debbie Rose, Club, Coach and Volunteer
Development Officer on 0151 443 3878 or Debbie.rose@knowsley.gov.uk
or complete the
online registration form.
Benefits to Clubmark
Accreditation gives parents and partners confidence that your
club is:
- High Quality
- Safe
- Effective
- Child Friendly
Benefits to being accredited
- 50% discount for facility hire at all Centres for Learning in
Knowsley
- Subsided discount and/or free places onto training courses and
workshops for coaches and volunteers
- Increased access to funding
- Increase in promotion and publicity
- Retain and attract members
School and club links
Sports clubs with Clubmark or Knowsley Clubmark status or
working towards this accreditation will be able to form links with
schools, demonstrating that the sport club is high quality through
accreditation from their relevant National Governing Body of
sport.
The School Club Links programme is a fundamental part of the
Government’s National School Sports Strategy. Its purpose is
to strengthen the links between schools and local sports clubs and,
in so doing, increase the number of children and young people who
become members of high quality clubs. Hopefully, by creating
effective school club links, it will lead to young people adopting
a healthier lifestyle, enjoying sport and encouraging life long
participation.
A School Club Link is an agreement between a school and a
community based sports club to work together to:
- Meet the needs of young people,
- Provide new and varied opportunities for young people,
- Help young people to realise their ambitions
- Agree good standards of provision.
This will ensure that children and young people will be
participating in clubs which are deemed safe, child friendly and
will consist of high quality fully qualified coaches. Sports clubs
which meet the necessary standards which are local to the school
will be prioritised when forming school-club links to ensure that
barriers such as transport cost to children are at a minimal.
For further information please contact Debbie Rose on 0151 443
3878.