Tonbridge Invicta celebrate double success

TONBRIDGE Invicta Football Club are celebrating a double success, writes Stephen McCartney.

The Football Foundation has provided the club with brand new kit worth £300 as part of the Junior Kit Scheme, providing strips and equipment to teams across the country.

In addition to this Tonbridge Invicta Football Club has been awarded the highest Charter Standard Award from the Football Association. Formally a Development Club, Tonbridge Invicta have recently achieved Community Club status and are now one of only a few clubs in Kent to achieve this award.

Development Officer Brett Egan explains: “ The FA Charter Standard Clubs programme provides national recognition to clubs that demonstrate the required standards, a programme of raising standards and reaching excellence. Community Club is the pinnacle of the Charter Standard programme and Tonbridge Invicta a very proud to be honoured with such an award”

Brett Egan added: “A lot of hard work has been done in raising our standards from Development Club status, as well as qualified coaches, across all age groups we provide child protection officers, school liaison officers and abide by the FA’s Code of Conduct. This is in addition to a development programme aimed at improving the club further”.

Tonbridge Invicta run three senior teams and eleven junior sides, ranging from U18’s to U7’s, with a thriving mini soccer school held on Saturday mornings at Swanmead.

Further information about Tonbridge Invicta is available at the club website  www.tonbridgeinvicta.co.uk

A formal presentation of the award is planned for the near future and it is hoped that representatives from Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, Kent FA and the Football Association will be present