K&P is run entirely by volunteers – including the team managers, committee, match officials and many others.
Please don’t assume that other people will do it all. We always need help at every event so please spare any time you can and come forward to help make our club as good as possible. Whether that’s regularly or just occasionally at specific events.
To offer your time please contact any of the committee and they'll be more than happy to advise on what you can do, whether is it one or many hours of time you're able to put in.
Our Head Official is Peter Shilling and you can contact him at the bottom of this page in the contact us section.
We are very grateful to all K&P members, parents and friends of the club who are willing to give up their time to help out. Whether you are an experienced Official or just interested in gaining a qualification, your help is very welcome and this page should contain some useful information. If you have any queries at all please do not hesitate to get in touch with Peter Shilling, our head official via the link at the bottom of the page.
Peter also organises the teams of officials who will help out at each of the matches we have in the summer. We need some officials for away matches and more for home ones (which are obviously easier in terms of travel!)
We cannot run our Home Meetings without technical officials and it is easy to get qualified. The Club will pay for it!
How do I get involved?
Choose your discipline: Track, Field, Starter/Starter’s Assistant, Timekeeper, Race Walking, Photo-finish, Assistant Official (14+), Endurance
In order to qualify as a Level 1 Official, you will need to :
Keep a receipt as the club will reimburse you!
** UKA will not accept any equivalent qualifications or Courses completed as part of your workplace or other volunteering placements, as they are all athletic biased.
You will then automatically qualify as a Level 1 Official and receive your license.
Once you are qualified as a L1 Official, there is no obligation to progress any further*, nor help out at any particular meetings. You may wish to help out at county-level fixtures such as the various Surrey Championships or the Lily B / Ebbisham Leagues and we would encourage you to do this to gain experience and confidence, working with a wide variety of athletes.
*Field Judges should be aware that to lead the long throws (Javelin, Hammer, Discus), a L2 qualification is needed.
Interested in progressing through the levels?
More information on this is available by clicking here. Put simply:
To progress to L2: A L1 Official needs to log a further 6 experiences, complete the L2 questions, have 1 report completed by a L3 Official.
To progress to L3: A L2 Official needs to log a further 10 experiences, have 1 Regional report completed by a L4 Official.
To progress to L4: A L3 Official needs to log a further 30 experiences in a 2 year window, attend a L4 course, have 6 reports completed by a L4 Official.
Level 5 Officials are on international lists and tends to be by invitation.
Officiating is a great way to give back to the club, to have a good afternoon and often get the best view in the house.