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swim21 Club Accreditation is the ASAs quality mark. It recognises nationally and regionally the clubs that are committed to providing safe, effective and quality services for the benefit of their members It is the ASA's Club Development model - a planning tool, based on the principles of Long Term Athlete Development, enabling clubs to help athletes, teachers, coaches and administrators to achieve their full potential. It focuses particularly on the needs of athletes - striving to provide them with the best possible support and environment.

RESOURCESUpon completion of your Audit, your club will have access to a wide array of resource materials - in the form of Information Sheets, Templates, Resource Packs and Workshops. These will assist your club through the swim21 programme and ensure that your club implements good practice throughout its daily activity. Your County Swimming Co-ordinator will direct you to the resources that best match the needs of your club. FUNDINGswim21 accreditation offers enhanced access to various sources of funding. Clubs who are working towards or have achieved swim21 accreditation may be looked upon more favourably when applying for sources of funding. For example, swim21 Accredited Clubs are prioritised to form links with local schools

'swim21 has given us the confidence to carry on doing the right things for our members and ensured we have access to the training we need to do the right job.' Iain Moore, Secretary, Selby Tiger Sharks 'swim21 has given us the incentive to continuously reassess our club and make it more attractive to parents and swimmers.' Joyce Chadwick, Halifax Swimming Club 'swim21 helped us to formalize our administration and identified areas where we needed to improve our policy. Members have commented on the good organisation within the club, so it was very worthwhile.' Lesley Houlston, Droitwich Dolphins Swimming Club swim21 is no different and the ASA is keen to support clubs in the shared objective of widening the participation base and hence the performance of the sport as a whole.

The aim of the club mark is to provide more and better opportunities for chiidren and young people to participate in sport in their local communities.

More likely to receive finding due to funding bodies stating applicant must have clubmark accredited. As part of Clubmark, clubs are entitled to receive help to develop the skills of coaches. This, in turn leads to better quality provision and improved player performance. Parents can be confident that appropriately qualified coaches are deployed. More and more local authorities and other leisure operators give priority-booking slots to Clubmark accredited clubs. Some also offer discounted rates for facility hire The foundation for any club is its youth structure. The Clubmark accreditation process is designed to assist clubs to attract and cater for young members, and build a strong future.

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Only available to clubs in England due to it being part of sport england Small clubs might struggle with costs if they need to improve to meet any regulations Every member of staff needs to be involved from the top of the club to the bottom to be able to achieve the mark

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"Clubmark has brought a recognised structure and award to the club ensuring we have the best coaches and sessions to develop players skills." Phil Preston, Morecambe and District Hockey Club. "Clubmark has enabled us to gain funding from a variety of sources to support the clubs development, enabled us to negotiate a move for the whole club to fantastic new facilities at Wright Robinson College and allowed us to have discounted facility use for the junior sessions. It is also a great tool for promotion and attracting sponsorship etc which we have done successfully." Lona Williams, Secretary of Dominoes Netball Club. "Since achieving our Clubmark accreditation in July 2003 Turnford Netball have increased their younger age group threefold." Turnford Netball Club "All Clubmark accredited cricket clubs have worked extremely hard to write and implement the required policies and procedures within Clubmark. The majority of this work has been done by club volunteers, and ECB commends them for their hard work in this respect." Tessa Whieldon, ECB's National Club Development Officer

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