Rangers net top award

LANCING Rangers Football Club has netted a Charter Standard Development Club - making it the 10th club in Sussex to receive it.

Club chairman Tim Fraser said: "The Football Association Charter Standard Scheme is a best practice guide that sets standards of coaching, administration and child protection for clubs working with young people.

By taking the next step up to development standard, the management committee at Lancing Rangers has demonstrated to the FA that it has a clear vision on how it sees the development of youth football progressing in the Lancing and Sompting area, giving players of all abilities the opportunity to learn and to enjoy playing the country's number one sport.

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"We are the second club in the Arun and Chichester Youth Football League to have achieved this prestigious status. The award has been the culmination of a considerable amount of hard work by the club's committee over the last 18 months, and elevates the status of the club from a Charter Standard to a Charter Standard Development Club.

"The players and parents of the club can be confident that the children are being coached in a safe and friendly environment, with all the club's officials having satisfactorily undertaken a minimum of the FA level 1 coaching certificate, the FA emergency aid course, a child protection workshop and all having been CRB checked by the relevant authorities.

Attaining development status gives the club access and priority to additional funding and grants to assist with any extra training that is required, kit and equipment grants and access to additional specialist workshops."

Lancing Rangers is affiliated to the Sussex FA and the club aims to provide regular football for boys and girls.It has football teams for those aged six and upwards with many age groups running more than one squad.

The club was presented with its award on Saturday at Boundstone Community College where many of its squads train by the Sussex FA development officer Kevin Tharme.

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