Youth Football coaching ran for a year in 2017/18 and could be started again if there was interest from a resident in gaining their coaching qualification. All the paperwork and foundational planning has already been done. Step forward if you are interested.
In the meantime here is some background from Shaun Stone on how it came to be:
Whilst being involved in creating the Hanham Hall Residents Group it seemed that the development of a community will rely on the expansion of peripheral activities, clubs and participation within them. We bought some 5-a-side nets to allow the youngsters on site to come together and play on the kick about area. These are readily available for anybody to use.
I played with the idea of setting up a club, but this was complicated by organisational and funding problems. It then occurred that we could run a youth training session if we only invested in a Coach to go forward and achieve qualification.
A Coach was sponsored by the community to achieve their FA Level 1 coaching qualifications. This involved a first aid training session, safeguarding training session and 6 x 1 hour training sessions to qualify for their coaching award. We marketed the upcoming event and started in August 2017. The formula was to be training for all 7 to 15 year olds, girls and boys on site once a week. All events were developed under our Hanham Hall site wide child safeguarding policy.
The youth football was active for a year and all the necessary paperwork is in place. We lost our Coach but would be willing to invest in anybody who would be willing to complete their Coaching qualification. The activity is currently parked and is waiting for a driver.