Kingsbridge Community Sports coaches qualified and ready to go!

Riverside – one of the Kingsbridge partners – has helped train a team of FA Coaches as part of its Community Coaching scheme. Riverside has channelled financial support from its primary sponsor The Jericho Foundation and from a grant from Sports Relief to enable ten of its club members to gain at least one FA credited coaching qualification.

The highest qualified member of the team is Dave Healy (centre) who has FA Level 3 & Level 1 Goalkeeping. There are now four FA Level 2 Coaches: Will Weaver, Christian Muneyi-Cargill (far left), Tom Holt and Roger Lynch (far right); and five FA Level 1 Coaches: Mike Parkes (left of centre), Clark Roberts, Dan Galante, George Kingsley (right of centre) and Nik Deeming. All of the Coaching team have been involved at some point in Real Riverside’s adult training programme and Mike, Dave and Roger are currently involved in other community coaching events.

Kingsbridge believes in encouraging participation in sports like football at grass-roots level and intends to establish additional programmes of sports coaching once it has the appropriate facilities and venue to do so.