All current ... and potential coaching and non-coaching Volunteers - We need YOU !
Please do read on below, and download the fuller volunteer info letter and feedback form.
Thank you to our newcomers and to those of you who have been involved with the club for a number of years and continue to give your support in a variety of ways.
A newly formed Somerset Athletics Network has recently been awarded 35K of funding per year for three years. This is a large and unprecedented amount of funding for local athletics, although as you can imagine this doesn’t go very far when you take into account the number of clubs within Somerset and the wide range of activity it continues to offer. Taunton AC like the other track and field clubs across the county will benefit from the employment of a part-time Community Club Coach, but it will continue to be the volunteers that remain very much at the heart of all activity within the county, none more so than within the club environment.
Funding will bring with it both greater opportunities for clubs and their athletes, but also greater expectations to demonstrate good club management, quality coaching and an increased capacity to cope with growing numbers of new athletes. Your skills and good will as volunteers are of the highest importance to us and we hope that your commitment will encourage others to join us.
Vision
Coach development is central to us achieving this, but non-coaching volunteers play a valuable role in freeing up coaches to coach by taking on more of the behind the scenes work involved in running a thriving athletic club, as well as some of the roles at the chalk face, such as people to take on the role of club registrars at the weekly training sessions.
In order to achieve our goals of increased capacity & rising standards we aim to:
o Increase the number of non – coaching volunteers in specific roles
o Increase the number of coaches who can commit to regular & reliable level of involvement
o Develop standards of coaching across the club through a more formal mentoring & coach development structure within the club for both existing & new coaches which will link with the Somerset Network and regional mentoring support programmes
So :
You want help, but don’t fancy coaching? Please click to download volunteer info letter and see particularly page 3 for how you can best help the club.
If you do want to find out more about coaching opportunities at the club and coach education see page 2 and 4-5 of the info letter, and also inormation on our coaching and officials web-pages.
In either case please do complete and return the feedback form.