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Welcome to the Canoe England Top Club and Sport England Clubmark schemes which are available to all Canoe England Clubs and Centers working with young people throughout England. Together these schemes provide a quality kite mark to recognise clubs within and across sports for agencies working in sport, local authorities, schools and parents.
CLUBMARK – “SIGN OF A QUALITY CLUB”
Clubmark is the Sport England accreditation scheme that sets standards across all quality sports clubs in England. It represents higher standards of safety, coaching, and management. To bring greater benefits to our clubs, Canoe England have worked with Sport England to match core criteria of the Clubmark scheme with our Top Club scheme so that a club can gain accreditation for both schemes at the same time. Click here for more details about the Clubmark scheme
WHAT IS A TOP CLUB?
The Top Club accreditation scheme is based on the principle that clubs demonstrate:
- A commitment to young people
- Provision of safe, quality activity and coaching programmes
For clubs that have achieved the standards it gives public recognition – for clubs that wish to improve what they do it is like a blue print – or model to help and guide which areas to work on. The Top Club award is not just for clubs – BCU approved centers in England can work towards the award and we welcome any who would like to participate in the scheme.
There are two types of Top Club:
Top Community Club (TCC) – the aims of a TCC is to provide young people with a good introduction to paddlesport and consolidation of technique (on the Long Term Paddler Development model Paddlesport Start and Develop); to give them the opportunity to participate on a regular basis, and to give access to progressive quality coaching programmes where they can experience at least two disciplines of paddlesport.
Top Performance Club (TPC) – the aims of a TPC is to develop and prepare paddlers for high level performance such as national and international competition or events. (On the Long Term Paddler Development Pathway Train to Train, to Train to Excel). These clubs should operate an “open squad” system allowing young people to access quality coaching and competition/events.
THE ACCREDITATION CRITERIA
There are four key sections to the criteria for accreditation – Activity Programme, Coaching, Duty of Care and Ethics, Club Management – for full details download
TOP CLUB CRITERIA. You will need to provide evidence or complete a self audit to show you meet the minimum standards for these criteria.
BENEFITS OF ACCREDITATION
The most important reason that clubs state for being a Top Club is always PUBLIC RECOGNITION. This in itself brings many benefits – there are also benefits from clubs working towards accreditation – they all |