7th October 2009

Treeton Cricket Club have finally managed to obtain the ‘Clubmark’ accreditation which was awarded in August 2009 and this approval will have significant affects to the club and the opportunities it will be able to provide for it’s playing and non-playing members in the future.

Clubmark is a Sport England initiative which recognises and values the commitment made by sports clubs to develop high quality, welcoming environments for young participants. The development of clubs that encourage young people to take up sport, improve talents, possibly play a leadership role and give them the option to initiate and maintain life-long participation in sport which is an essential part of supporting the sporting infrastructure in England.

The accreditation is awarded to clubs that comply with minimum operating standards in four key areas:

* The playing programme
* Duty of care and safeguarding and protecting children and young people
* Sports equity and ethics
* Club management

Treeton Cricket Club Chairman Keith Haynes commented: “A countless number of people involved within the club have put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that our club receives the accreditations it so richly deserves.

The Clubmark approval we have now gained is exactly that and something which we have been striving to achieve for some time now and it is testament to the amount of hard work put in by many people past and present who have helped to set us on our way to working in accordance with the minimum operating standards which we now have in place and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have played a part in us gaining the Clubmark accreditation."