The FA Charter Standard Scheme is a core component of The FA Football Development programme. The scheme establishes minimum standards for football development and acts as a quality assurance mechanism recognising well run clubs.
Criteria
The FA Charter Standard Clubs criteria is linked to FA National Game Strategy goals of:
- Growth & Retention
- Raising Standards
- Better Players
- Running the Game
- Volunteer Development
- Facilities
At the beginning of the 2010/11 season over 61% of youth football in Oxfordshire is being played in Charter Standard Clubs. Oxfordshire FA, in line with the National Game Strategy has set a target of 75% coverage by 2012.
Listed below are the different criteria for the different Club Awards:
Charter Standard Club
The award is designed to reward best practice, aid delivery across the club volunteer spectrum and educate coaches and club officials. To achieve Charter Standard Club Status the club needs to have the following in place:
- Club Constitution/Rules
- Copy of Annual Accounts
- Code of Conduct for players, coaches, parents and officials
- Equity Policy: To show equal opportunities in the club
- FA Child Protection Policy: Appoint a designated Child Welfare Officer who should have attended FA Child Protection workshop & completed a FA CRB check
- Public Liability & Personal Accident Insurance
- Qualified Coaches: One Coach per youth team should have achieved Level 1 & applied for or completed an enhanced FA CRB check.
- Minutes from committee meeting's, AGM's and EGM's
- School-Club link established - clubs should have a link with at least one school. This could be an informal link to help recruit new players or a more formal link where club coaches may help deliver football sessions
- First Aid Equipment - club to ensure first aid equipment is available at all coaching sessions & matches
- Parents Briefings - club to hold a briefing for players, parents / carers & officials at the start of each season to address acceptable standards of behaviour & promote positive playing environments
- Signed up to the FA Respect Programme
- Designated Volunteer Co-ordinator
Charter Standard Development Club
Development Status displays a club's determination and commitment to developing their club further and caters for the growing demands on its members to the minimum FA criteria: To achieve this level, club's must have attained The FA Charter Standard Club criteria plus the criteria listed below:
- At least five teams playing across four age groups
- A 3-5 year football development plan
- One club coach to hold The FA / 1st 4sport Level 2 Certificate In Coaching Football Qualification (Lead Coach)
Charter Standard Community Club
This is the pinnacle award for Charter Standard Clubs. The main focus of the Community Club Award is to become the centre of football within the local community. Achieving this award will require the full support, guidance and advice on hand from the Football Development Team. To achieve this prestigious award the club needs to have obtained the following criteria as well as The FA Charter Standard Club and Development Club criteria:
- At least ten teams ranging from youth through to adult including a minimum of one female team
- Mini Soccer Provision
- Boys and girls teams
- 5 year football development plan
- One person to have attended The FA Mentoring Course. For more information please click here
- One coach to have achieved The FA Youth Award - Module 2 Certificate by July 2011. For more information please click here
- A designated school co-ordinator
For further information on FA Charter Standard , please contact Owain Prosser, Oxfordshire FA Football Development Officer on 07956415583 or Owain.Prosser@OxfordshireFA.com.