For parents who want to help
Coaching badges
If you help with a team for a season, the club pays for your entry-level badge, safeguarding and first aid, and your DBS check.
Most of our coaches started as a parent holding the cones because nobody else would. If you are going to help with a team, we would rather you were properly trained, so we pay for it.
The entry-level course with the national association runs over a few evenings and weekend days, mostly in the local area. We add the safeguarding and first-aid courses and an enhanced DBS check, all paid for. Nobody coaches here without those last three, including you, and that is not negotiable.
If you want to go further, the club pays half of the next badge up for anyone who has been with us for two seasons. Several of our older boys have started their own badges at sixteen and now help with the under 7s.
What is included
- Entry-level badge course fee
- Safeguarding and first-aid courses
- Enhanced DBS check
- A mentor from another age group for your first season
- Half the next badge after two seasons
What it costs
Free to you, in return for one season helping. Work out your family's cost on the subs calculator, and see this week's game on the Saturday page.
Questions about coaching badges
I never played seriously.
Good coaches of seven-year-olds are mostly patient and organised, not former players.
Can my teenage son help?
From 16 he can help under a qualified coach, with a DBS check and the safeguarding course.
Two training sessions free. Then he can tell you.
Wednesday evenings at Trethomas Park, grouped by age. Bring boots or trainers, shin pads if you have them, and a coat for yourself. Ask for the coach of his age group at the car park gate.