The Youth Section needs one last push, to ensure our Training Facilities are ready for action for the winter months.
We kindly ask for your support with the following ground maintenance to ensure that the Players play in a Safe Training Environment:
• Club Training Pitch - New 45 meters of Netting needs to be tied to 16 poles and raised up. Metal Goals need to be place in position.
• Bowling Green Pitch - Hedge needs to be trimmed and Goals need to be placed in position.
Please if you can spare a few hours at 10am on Saturday 04 September let you manager know or make contact with Michael Maidment - helenmichaels@supanet.com.
29 May, 2021
The Youth Section provided the kits for an Oliver Bonas team that played Mind the mental health charity at Ebb Stadium.
Unfortunately, the kits were unable to inspire a win for the Oliver Bonas team, the Mind team winning 4-2.
The Section is pleased to support such an important and worthy charity.
With funds donated by all the managers from all the youth teams, Hon. Sec., Michael Maidment was presented with a range of gifts to say 'thank you' for everything he, and his wife Helene, do for the Casuals Youth Section.
Michael has dedicated himself to the club for the past 20 years, often working seven days a week. Much of his work goes unnoticed and most are unaware of the work he does and rarely consider the administration and organisation required to field 25+ teams every week, over a 9 month season!
The fact this goes unnoticed is a testament to Michael’s skills, experience and dedication as he makes everything run smoothly, almost effortlessly. We are very lucky to have the Maidments at the club. They are irreplaceable.
We looking for donations of plants for the summer display. If anyone has any perennial flowers or cuttings you would like to contribute, please drop them off at the Club by 1st May 2021.
If you could send a note to say you have done so, we can make sure they are planted and watered.
Any infringements of this decision will be seen as unauthorised and will not be supported by Corinthian-Casuals F.C. Youth Section. Any unauthorised return to training will be judged as contrary to the recommendations, and managers and parents must take full responsibility for any infringements of this decision.
We are constantly monitoring information from The Government, Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England, Kingston Council, the Surrey Football Association, the Football Association and the Surrey Youth League. We will regularly review our decision and issue notifications once it is safe to resume. However, any resumption of training or games will be subject to strict adherence to the Corinthian-Casuals Youth Section Covid-19 Training Guidelines(YSTG) and the Risk Assessment (YSRA).
We are in the process of creating the YSRA, and it will be distributed as soon as it is ready. (See F.A. Guides below). The YSRA and YSTG will contain guidance on safely returning to training when the time comes. It will provide clear rules and measures that each team will have to follow once training or matches resume.
The YSRA and YS TG will be specific to Corinthian-Casuals and will contain information about our club, our facilities and our teams. It will include guidance such as:
Promoting proper hygiene by providing hand sanitiser at the entrance and exit of our pitches
Advice that each individual player brings hand sanitiser to training and events, marked with their own name
Providing additional waste facilities and removal and disposal of contents at the end of each session
The cleaning of goals, lighting and other communal equipment and the necessary cleaning procedures
Advice on avoiding congestion at training or games and have peak-use times reviewed to stagger activities throughout the week/ evening
Programme all activities with sufficient time (e.g. A minimum 10-minute window) in between bookings, to avoid clustering of groups on pitch-side or in the car park before or after sessions
Underlining the importance that teams should arrive and depart punctually.
Recommendations to negotiate flexible kick-off times with opponents to accommodate distancing measures
Adjusting timings to accommodate the longer operating hours and remaining within those permitted by our local planning authority and the F.A.s and the Surrey Youth League rules for youth football.
Preparation for spot-checks on match or training sessions by the club, the League, the F.A. or the Borough Health Officers. We can expect random checks to be made regularly by health officials
You must understand that things will be different when we return to football. You must be prepared to deal with the differences. Being prepared will allow us to smoothly return to football and safely re-open of our facility. Please read the YSRA carefully, taking time to consider how the guidelines will affect your team, for training, match day and social activities. Not being prepared may have severe consequences for your team, players and families.
We hope to establish a group responsible for implementing our YSRA & YSTG. This group will offer support and advice to all our teams.
May 13, 2020: The FA has today issued guidance to all grassroots football and informal football activity outside the professional game.
Consistent with Government advice, published on Wednesday 13 May, the following outdoor football activity is currently permitted:
playing football individually e.g. practice of individual skills or fitness activities;
playing football with your family or other people living in your household;
an individual can play football with one other person who is not from their household.
coaching an adult player one to one.
All social distancing guidelines must be followed.
Additionally, maintaining a grass or artificial football pitch is permitted, as long as social distancing and appropriate hygiene practices are adopted.
If an individual is symptomatic, living in a household with a possible COVID-19 infection or if you are classified as extremely vulnerable on health grounds, the guidance is that you should remain at home.
The following football activity is not permitted at this time, consistent with Government guidelines:
coaching a child (U18) from a different household one to one. In order to comply with The FA’s safeguarding policy, a child must have a parent/carer with them, which doesn’t comply with Government social distancing requirements;
two or more people from one household playing with one person or more from outside their household.
The FA will continue to work with the Government and Sport England in order to provide guidance to grassroots football as the Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy moves to the next phase.
Following an announcement from the Football Association the executive committee of the Surrey Youth League have taken the difficult decision to postpone all league games and league events cup finals etc. until after the Easter School Holidays at the earliest.
This action, which will be kept under constant review, has been taken due to the increasing numbers of clubs taking steps to isolate their players and staff because of the Covid-19 virus. The decision is being made purely on the number of cases requiring self-isolation and the impact on facilities. Given the obvious concern from clubs and parents, there is no alternative but for today’s action. However, we are committed at this time to trying to complete this season’s fixture programme and are now looking at ways to establish appropriate options to do so.
We will continue to monitor all Government advice with the situation under constant review, with the priority being the health and well-being of all. Further updates will follow in due course.
Frank Thompson
Surrey Youth League General Secretary
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The aim of the Corinthian-Casuals Football Club - Youth Section is to promote fair play and sportsmanship, and to develop players to the highest level possible, whilst remaining strictly amateur and retaining the ideals of the Corinthian and Casuals Football Clubs, commonly known as the 'Corinthian Spirit'.