Support your athlete
Encourage, listen and celebrate effort and progress. Your support builds confidence and a love for the sport.
The people who make meetings happen
Volunteer & officials
We need officials to run our home meetings and to meet our commitments at away fixtures, which earn us points too! It's easy to qualify: the club pays for it and gives you free membership as a thank you.
Our offer to officials and coaches
What you get
- A branded KACPH officials' shirt
- Funded officials' courses
- Funded coaching courses
- Free club membership, for you or someone in your household
- Lunch at home fixtures and mileage expenses
- Travel with the team to away fixtures
- Mentoring from zero to hero, with support from Surrey Athletics and England Athletics
We follow the UKA / England Athletics officials pathway (opens in a new tab). Whether you're experienced or just curious, we'd love your help.
Your help, big or small
Ways to help
Help at competitions
We always need help with setting up, field events, timekeeping, marshalling, refreshments and more. A few hours makes a big difference, and no experience is needed: full training is provided.
Become an official
Officials are vital to athletics. We'll support you to get qualified and develop new skills (see below).
Become a coach
Love the sport and want to help athletes improve? You can start by assisting our coaches at a session, with funded coaching courses to get you qualified. A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken by UKA, with the cost covered for coaches. This ensures our athletes of all ages are safeguarded, in line with our, England Athletics and UKA policies. Email the coaching team to find out more.
Volunteering roles
- Timekeeper
- Field event assistant
- Track marshal
- Score recording
- Results processing
- First aider
- Refreshments helper
- Setup / pack away
- Team manager support
- Coach
Training, safeguarding & the committee
We provide training for all volunteer roles, including officiating qualifications. The safety and wellbeing of our athletes is our top priority, and certain roles require a DBS check, which the club will guide you through. You can also join the committee to help shape the future of KACPH and support the club behind the scenes.
To get involved, speak to a coach, team manager or a committee member, or email the officials team.
Tell us you're available
We collect officials' availability for all home and away fixtures on Spond. Prefer not to use the app? Just contact us.
Ask to join the officials groupSee the rota
Once we have your availability we add your preferred roles to the rota for the fixtures you can do.
View the rota (opens in a new tab)Keep learning
Take funded courses and move up the officials pathway at your own pace.
Officials pathway (opens in a new tab)PolyField
We're at the cutting edge of athletics technology: photo finish, result screens, meeting management, laser measurement and distance screens. Learn the equipment in a relaxed, low-pressure environment and help deliver a higher level of competition to our athletes.
About PolyFieldDuke of Edinburgh
We run DofE volunteering and skills sections at Bronze, Silver and Gold, and use the programme to introduce our technology to the local community.
Ask about DofE