ABOUT MAIDENHEAD BOYS & GIRLS FC
19 Nov 2008

Brief History

The club was founded in 1964 to ‘provide representative, competitive and recreational association football for boys and girls of The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead'

Our Mission

Is to provide boys and girls from 6 years of age the opportunity to learn football through fully trained FA junior coaches, provide facilities and equipment to have fun, provide training and play matches at the lowest cost to families.

As a result MB&GFC has a very strong reputation as the club in the district and can boast development of several players with professional clubs and also young players that have not only increased football skills but increased confidence and self esteem by being motivated and having fun!

Club & Team Management

Executive Team

The Executive Team meets regularly to manage the club strategy and day to day activities.

Managers & Coaches

The club has managers & coaches that are FA qualified to the appropriate level, including first aid certificates.

Players

Today we have approximately 300 boys and girls registered with the club, consisting of around 30 teams.

Mixed Ability Policy

The club takes boys and girls of all abilities and prides it self in providing first class training and facilities to enable the boys and girls to make the most of the abilities they have.

However, we have some real success stories and recently boys have moved from the club to the Academy run by Chelsea FC.

Three girls have joined the Fulham Ladies Academy and a number of the younger boys have regular sessions at the Schools of Excellence run by Reading FC and Wycombe Wanderers FC.

Boys aged 11 and under play in small-sided games (7 or 8 a side), Boys/Girls aged 12 and over play 11 a side games.

Where we Train & Play

We currently have access to pitches at Altwood Senior School, Oaken Grove and Braywick in Maidenhead. We also use the winter training facilities at Altwood School (Astroturf) and Braywick (Astroturf). All teams train at least once a week throughout the season. Matches take place all over the local area and further when we play in Tournaments.

Communication Links

This is a key area of responsibility for the club to keep everyone involved and up to date with news and events.

Newsletter

A monthly newsletter is issued to all boys, girls and to their parents. The newsletter includes, dates of meetings and social events, our recognition awards, golden goal and golden gloves information together with details of good team performances, awards won, representative honors, fun raising etc.

Presentation Evening

The annual presentation evening usually takes place towards the end of June. Each manager nominates a winner of the Managers Award and the Chairman’s Player Award. In addition ‘special’ club awards are presented, to tboys or girls who have brought an extra dimension to their relationship with the club. This season, in excess of 500 boys, girls and parents attended the evening Held prior the the 6-Aside Tournament.

Press coverage

During the season the Maidenhead Advertiser prints match reports on the MB&G FC. In addition they carry information pertaining to forthcoming events and on some occasions send reporters and/or photographers to cover the event.

Maidenhead United FC

Maidenhead United FC has seen the potential within our club and has appointed us as its official ‘feeder’ into United. We now have greatly improved links between both clubs and run Maidenhead United's youth team that play in the highly acclaimed Allied Counties League under floodlights at Maidenhead's York Road ground on a Wednesday evening.

We hold all our meetings at York Road and are proud to call it our "Base".