North East Lincolnshire
Local Football Network
5th March 2013
Agenda
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Welcome and Introductions
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Minutes of the last meeting
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Matters arising
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Chairperson Nomination
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Football Development Plan – All
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Increasing Summer Football (TP)
Matters Arising
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Humber Cup (TP)
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Any other business
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Date and time of next meeting
Chairperson
• Nominations?
• To Chair LFN meetings starting from the next meeting.
• To have the final and casting vote on any voting topics.
• The chair is trusted to use this role to benefit the whole
group.
• A chair is there to make it easier for the whole group to
reach its goals; not to direct what those goals should be.
• The chair is in a position to have an overview, this
means that they can think more clearly about the
arguments and issues.
• CF to facilitate and continue to arrange meetings and
produce minutes.
Football Development Plan
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Each LFN will have a football development plan that links to the County plan.
• Inline with county plan planning cycles July – June.
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Highlight ‘We Wills’ and align responsibility.
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Highlight strategic prioritise
• Attract investment
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Reviewed quarterly
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Reflective of National Game Strategy
• Growth and Retention, Better Players, Raising Standards, Running the Game,
Workforce, Facilities and Investment ,
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What does this look like for North East Lincolnshire?
Growth and Retention
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Implement the Youth Development Review
• Club support – pitches, squads and implementation
• League support – consultation; Gradely 9v9 pitches.
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Support transition from youth to open age football.
• Sharing of club contacts
• Promotion of open age league opportunities
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Develop School Club links across North East Lincolnshire
• Through SSP network – Link clubs and schools – School Games
• Club Links funding – “Join our Club”
• “Girls and Goals”
• LFN to promote opportunity and access to clubs.
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Offer alternative formats and link to “mainstream” football
• Small Sided Football
• Summer Football
• Futsal
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Highlight those clubs at risk
Raising Standards
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Provide in-service training
• Coaches
• Referees
• Administrators
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Increase the % of football played in a CS club
• Leagues to nominate proactive clubs.
• LFN’s to support CS applications.
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Match Day Club Visits; team of CFA club ‘assessors’
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Work around RESPECT promotion, general club behaviour and CS.
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RESPECT
• All Clubs/leagues/referees to receive information annually
• Local organisations nominated for RESPECT awards, now open; nominate
through our website.
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Nominated League to work towards CS league status
Better Players
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LFN to highlight coach education need
• Strategic approach
• Could courses be run through leagues?
• Increase % of Youth coaches with a L1CCF
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League Coaches In-service CPD
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Promote the LFA bursary scheme (re-imbursement to clubs through cash-back).
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Support the roll out of the FA Skills Coach programme in Lincolnshire. (July onwards
– priority areas (5-11yrs)).
Running the Game
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Hold a minimum of 4 LFNs per years
• FD plan signed off
• Group representative of football with pro-active members
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Nominate deserving leagues/clubs/volunteers for FA awards
• FA Community Awards – 35 nominations last year in 8 categories.
• Nominations through www.thefa.com/yourgame
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Promote member services to clubs and leagues
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Support the roll out of the FA whole Game system
• Referees / Discipline - 2013/2014 season
• Affiliation– 2014 / 2015 season
Workforce Development
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Support coverage of games with a qualified official.
• Strategic referees courses
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Promote refereeing opportunities to existing players.
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Nominate young people (14-25) to the Lincolnshire FA Football Futures programme.
• Next generation of volunteers (changes to CFA offer)
• Future workforce
• Coaching
• Refereeing
• Marketing and promotion
Facilities and Investment
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Support Strategic prioritise in the area
• Chair to provide LFN comments
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Support the promotion of grants
• FF Grow the Game
• McDonalds Kickstart funding
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Ensure all goal posts meet British safety standards
• FF Build the Game Scheme (50%); All goals.
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Football Pyramid Funding.
• Football stadia Improvement Fund
• Have we missed anything?
• Questions?