The Silkmen were this week awarded Bronze status by The Football League Trust for our work in the Community. The club will now receive £24k which will be invested into Community activities.
Our staff were recently assessed by the Trust Regional Management team, who found that the club's Community work met the required standard for a Bronze award. In addition to fulfilling the Trust's Minimum Charter standard, the club's Community staff demonstrated the following:
• A coach to child ratio of 1:16 for all activity
• All activity led by an FA Level 2 qualified coach or above
• Publish a business plan with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Deliver to at least one of the Trust's 4 main themes of health, Education, Social Inclusion/ Community Cohesion and Sports Participation
• Establish working partnerships with external agencies eg local authorities
• Working towards charitable status by the end of 2009
Bronze awards have been made to 20 Championship clubs, 19 in League 1 and 17 in League 2.
Commenting on the news, Chief Executive Patrick Nelson said, "I'm delighted that our community programme has reached the Football League Trust's bronze standard.Ian Cosier, Paul McGuire and the rest of the team have made great strides with the work they do out in the community and we all look forward to taking the programme forward- perhaps to the Silver level - in 2009."
