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Volunteering
Line marking, tea, lifts, treasurer, helping at Wildcats. An hour a month is useful. Every volunteer is DBS checked if the role involves children.
Nobody at this club is paid. The whole thing, from Thursday's cones to the league registration forms, is done by parents, grandparents, older girls and a few people who simply wanted to do something useful in Ely.
We need people to run the tea hut on home Sundays, put out and pick up goals, mark lines with the wheeled marker, help at Wildcats on Thursdays and look after the swap rail. Bigger jobs come up too: treasurer, fixtures secretary, the summer fair committee. An hour a month helps, and nobody will ask you for more than you offered.
You do not need to know anything about football. Anyone who works with the girls goes through an application, two references and an enhanced DBS check, which the club pays for, plus the safeguarding course. Jobs that are away from the girls, such as the books or the fair, need none of that.
What she gets
- Enhanced DBS check paid for by the club, where the role needs one
- A safeguarding course before you help at any session
- A coat, because it rains
- A proper thank you at the summer fair
- Awards sign-off for older girls and students who help
What it costs
It costs an hour now and then. We pay for your DBS check and any course. Everything is on the prices table, and the team finder tells you which group she belongs in this season.
Questions about volunteering
I have no football knowledge. Any use?
A great deal. The treasurer has never kicked a ball.
Can I help just in the summer?
Yes. Camps and the fair need the most hands.
Never played? Good. Bring her on Thursday.
Trainers and a coat are fine for the first session. A coach meets you at the pavilion gate, and you can stay and watch for as long as you like. The first three sessions are free.