End of this season seen us setting new grounds in youth football development with the only football club in the UK to introduce a grading system. Each child will be trained to pass a grade starting with a basic G grade working there way up to a much more advanced A- grade which will cover all aspects of football skills and tacticts. If a child should be lucky enough to be picked for a professional pro youth club this will give them a fantastic start. With most other sports judo, martial arts etc children get something to show for their hard work which can be used to their advantage in latter years on job applications os C-Vs . In football children who dont become professional leave with nothing to show for their hard work this is why we have put in place a training system with graded certificates showing achievements. The Southside training progamme will not only support children wishing to pursue a career in pro football but more important help and encourage many more children to become involved in football and sports - coaching for the future .To help us progress we are pursuing a disused, old, changing room building and its unused football park  within the Queens Park Recreation Grounds. This building would be ideal for storing our training equipment, it would also be a base where we can work from with new volunteers helping in training programmes. The park would be used for 4 x 7a-side parks for training , organized matches and tournaments, as you see this is a project well worth pursuing, we will keep you informed of our progress.

Last year we breifly discussed changing Southside into a charitable organisation or registered amature club. There are many advantages to this and  we hope to have made the change over in the near future.