**Recruitment - Are you able to offer you help to Reading Ac?**
We are currently enjoying one of our most successful periods here at Reading Athletic Club, with
our teams thriving in all age groups from U11 right through to Senior's and Veteran's. However this success is only
possible through the hard work of the number of volunteer's who keep the club going in their various jobs from Coaching
to Team Managing to Officiating at home and away fixtures.
With our ever growing
success, comes a greater demand for more volunteers at the club. If you feel you could spare some time to help with any of
the various jobs, we would love to hear from you. We are proud of the fact we are a close knit club with some excellent support
and we hope you would like to get involved and play your part, no matter how large or small that might be, in helping Reading
Ac during one of their most successful periods in a number of years.
Below
is a list of some of the important positions or vacancies we have at the club that may be of interest of you. Your help in
any area would be greatly appreciated. If any of the vacancies/positions appeal to you, please contact the club secretary
via the bottom of this page.
- Coaches - As with any club, you can never have enough coaches. With our ever increasing membership of athlete's
were are looking to further widen our coaching structure to accommodate new and existing member's to ensure all are given
quality coaching. No previous coaching experience is required, there are a number of coaching courses during the year and
the club are happy to cover the costs incurred by these course for any volunteer who is interested to becoming an athletics
coach and coach at Reading Athletic Club.
- Reception - We are always looking for volunteers to man the club office on training night's. This involves
welcoming and registering new member's to the club.
- Refreshments - At all our home matches, we provide an excellent spread of sandwiches etc for all officials and
team managers. We are looking for someone who might like to help get involved or even coordinate this during the season. This
is again a job that is not hugely time consuming, with only 7-8 home fixtures per season.
- Clubhouse Volunteers - Having now been given
the go ahead for the club house, we hope it could all be completed by November time. I'm sure it will be a welcome addition
on training nights, especially through the winter months. We will of course be looking for volunteers to help out with odd
duties through the year, helping with refreshments, making tea etc on training nights and match days. If we can get enough
support from a few people, it will be less of a commitment for everyone, so if you think you can help, we'd love to hear
from you. Please contact the Clubhouse Supervisor - Stella Bacon via email at stella.bacon@readingac.com
- Athletics Officials
- Another important part of the club is that of being an athletics official. It is these people that make sure fixtures run
smoothly. We are always looking for more people who maybe interested in becoming an official and officiating for the club
at home and away matches. Even more so nowadays as in most league fixtures track and field officials score points towards
the match score! So it is very important we are able to field a full quota. We are currently looking for volunteers who might
want to get involved in helping with officiating in the field events, or becoming a track judge or a timekeeper. You don't
need to become qualified right away, you can give it a try, see if it's for you, if it is there are numerous courses held,
in order to become a qualified track and field official.
If you are interested in helping the club in some way, please feel free to speak to
us, we will be glad to hear from you.
If you wish to know more or would like to contact the club regarding anyway in which
you maybe be able to help out, please either contact the club secretary by email at: christine.bradfield@readingac.com or speak to any Reading Ac member on any training night, who will be happy to help further.
We look forward to hearing from you!!!