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NEWS ITEM: The Cost of Training Referees

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Course expenses

1-------about  £140.00  cost for hall hire                     

2-------about  £   50.00 travel                                   

3-------about  £   30.00 tea coffee biscuits              

This is the cost for the course

4-------about  £   20.00 cost for the examiner        

Total Costs £240.00

County Expenses

Cost of sending out Pre pact with Laws of Football (Laws book £4 Postage £3 + )

Sending out the DVD to under 16s for the child awareness paper

On the first day of the course they then get the welcome to refereeing folder with about 6 booklets again about 25 per course. (Min 10 Max 30)

Then there is the time that county use up i.e Tim sorting out the paper work for the course then the cost of the exam After 6 Games.

The time given for the module one two three five that is covered by the county office. CRB for Adults. Mentors cost expenses paid by the County Overheads Material & Labour Costs

Points for not having societies paying towards the cost of referees to go through the course

I---If the leagues want referees they should pay for them.

2--If the society pays towards the cost it would not always see the referee take up refereeing as some do the course for school work.

3--A lot of the candidates do the course so as to just do their own teams that means no benefit for other clubs and a waste.

4--Some of the younger candidates after doing the course go to university so if not in Surry the county would not get the benefit from them.

5--As you know a lot of the new referees IE the young ones do it for mini soccer only after they become a referee.

6-- Also a few of the candidate do it because their mum tells them to do it or their mate is on the course.

7--As we know there is a large number having taken the course and pass we never see them again so for a society to pay towards the cost would not help us to have more numbers coming through.

8--And because the FA raised the cost it should not be for members of a society to have to pay towards the cost, the idea of raising the cost was to cut out the wasted time training officers put in just to see candidates take and pass the exam just to disappear never to be see again.

9--As we know this point has not really stopped that from happening as we do have a lot of numbers not re-register at the start of the new season.

10--Some of the candidates are school teachers and they only do it to either do school football or just to be able to put it on the CV and get a raise in wages.

It would not help societies to put up monies to help people go through the course and see a return for the society’s money.

Note No Training is done at Guilford it’s all at Woking

Ray Cotton

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