Calverton Miners' Welfare FC 2007-08

AWARDS NOMINATION FORM 2003

Category: Community Club

Name of Nominee: Calverton Miners Welfare Football Club

Name of Club: Calverton Miners Welfare Football Club

County FA : Nottinghamshire

Reason for Nomination:

I would like to nominate Calverton Miners Welfare FC as the Community Club for 2004.

CMWFC attained this award in December 2002 after successfully fulfilling all the necessary criteria for this status to become one of the first 84 clubs in the country.

Such is the success of our club that year on year we attract new teams as more youngsters within the local community find an enjoyable, healthy pastime conducted in a safe environment.

We have utilised this award to the full and our enthusiast workforce have dug deep and worked hard to raise funds to provide a basis for the fantastic facilities which we are now able to boast. For the first time in many years the village now have a girls section with currently in excess of 30 girls playing football on a regular basis.

The club, together with its enthusiastic coaches and helpers have, over the year, provided numerous people to support FA initiated courses and have at times acted as host.

These have included Level 1 courses, referee courses, MACA courses and we hosted a disadvantaged football tournament in conjunction with ‘Rethink’.

In addition to organised football we provide access to the five a side all weather court for recreational football for people of all ages.

In August our volunteers are to pilot and run a Healthy Lifestyle course aimed at schoolchildren aged between 8 and 12. Although linked to football, this builds on Government guidelines and initiatives to combat childhood obesity.

This, together with other initiatives demonstrates that we are truly a community club – and not just another football club.

AWARDS NOMINATION FORM 2004

Category : Community Club

Name of Nominee : Calverton Miners Welfare FC

Name of Club : Calverton Miners Welfare FC

County FA : Nottinghamshire

Reason for Nomination:

I wish to nominate Calverton Miners Welfare FC for the award of Community Club of the Year.

• 2 coaches have attained Level 3 (Bill Bennett & Andy Miller)
• Andy Miller has become generic Level 1 tutor
• Ran Level 1 course at Calverton and gained 6 new coaches and 4 re-newals.
• We have a qualified Nutritionist - Rose Melvin BSc (Hons) Human Nutrition & Product Development.
• Obtained Awards For all funding to run Nutrition course in summer – oversubscribed – see photographs

Looking to seek funding to run similar courses in the future (Community Projects). This is an innovative project which we plan to role out to other parts of the community and sub-sections of the club e.g schools, colleges, yoga classes, over 50’s group, children & parents/grand-parents etc etc.

• We are looking to extend further our facilities to encompass a dedicated training area predominantly to deliver healthy lifestyle and dietary courses.
• Entered a team into the Northern Under 19 Alliance floodlit league for the first time. Staging first ever floodlit football in Calverton.
• Senior team successfully entered into new Notts Senior League. First team are currently second.
• Formed an ‘A’ team in MAA as part of commitment to Development Plan to help provide exit routes. First time we’ve had a team in this league.
• Entered a team in the New Newark Youth League for the first time.
• Successfully completed Tower Bridge to Trent Bridge sponsored Bike Ride – raising circa £6000
• Looking to run a tournament again in 2005 after having to call off 2004 one due to health & safety reasons surrounding the building work. Dates set for 18/19 June.
• Some members competed in Robin Hood Marathon raising circa £1400 (see photograph)

• Introduced dress code taken up by virtually every junior player in the club – the junior in the above photo is an example.
• Successfully became a link club with Nottingham Forest.
• Volunteers have acquired and erected training floodlights.
• Holding a Honda Goldwing rally in conjunction with raising funds. Honda Goldwing ( Nottingham) have adopted us as their nominated charity.
• Viv Corcoran is our appointed Schools Liaison Officer and liases with all the local schools regularly and indeed has become a school governor at Manor Park. We stage numerous school matches and even provide a referee for some.
• Probably appointed the most highly qualified Child Protection Officer in the county in Dean Wilson. He does this as part of his daytime job working for the Notts Health Authority with mentally disturbed children.
• We have a guy who is taking sports injury courses with a view to offering first hand expert help. (Graham Miller).
• Membership is growing year on year. We will start a new u7 team soon. We have scope to fill the current gap between u15 and u19 boys – see below. Loads of scope to encourage more girls.
• Our development plan speaks of an under 18 development squad. This may be brought into funding application mentioned above. We’d need access to all 4 pitches though and may take shape when all the work is completed. We are currently in negotiation to link ourselves with West Notts College to do this.
• Some of our parents and older lads help out in schools e.g. my son Tom is a Level 1 coach and acts as manager of the school football team and also coaches and helps run the year 7s. Dean Wilson (a parent connected with our u11’s) helps coach at St Wilfrid’s school. Bill Bennett has conducted coaching sessions at Langar Primary School where one of our club members is head-teacher (see photograph)

• Other future projects will include provision of sheltered supporter accommodation, possibly relaying and if feasible extension of the all weather court.
• We still encourage recreational football for all ages – I still play for example!
• A veterans team is another possibility and I have spoken with Keith Radford with a view to starting this for next season.
• We have 18 teams, 17 of which are in leagues.
• We have girls at under 11 (playing friendlies) under 12 and under 14 (Notts Ladies & Girls league)
• We have nine boys YEL teams at under 8, 2 x under 9, 2 x under 10, under 11, 12, 13 and 14.
• One under 11 boys team in the New Newark Youth League.
• One team in the Notts Youth league at under 15.
• An under 19 team in the Northern u19 Alliance.
• One team in the MAA
• Two teams in the NSL.
• We have a brilliant record of supporting other parts of the community and a recent example of this can be illustrated by a Vicars v Bikers charity match which raised in the region of £500 in aid of the Tsunami appeal (see photographs)

• We won the prestigious Nottinghamshire Sports Club of the Year for 2004 to become probably the first football club to ever win this and certainly raised the profile of football within the County FA.
• Become a recognised venue for County FA initiatives such as Level 1 coaching events, MACA initiatives, league meetings venue, referee’s meeting venue etc etc.