HCR are awarded the FA Charter Standard Club Certificate

We are very proud to announce that in February 2012 Halesowen Community Rangers FC achieved the FA Charter Standard Club accreditation, which is awarded by The FA to formally recognise clubs who are committed to raising standards throughout grassroots football.

To achieve the Charter Standard, HCR have proven to The FA that we are a well organised club and that we are well managed and committed to providing a positive experience for all players, coaches and volunteers involved with the club.

In the award letter sent to our Chairman, Abdul Hamed, Mick Baikie who is National Clubs Services Manager at The FA said:

"The FA is proud of its FA Charter Standard Programme and we understand and appreciate the work and commitment required to achieve the accreditation and for this we are extremely grateful. 

"By maintaining standards and utilising The FA logo alongside your club it can promote its acivities to parents, volunteers, sponsors and other potential funders and demonstrate the high standards it sets on and off the field.

"As an FA Charter Standard Club I hope that you continue to work with our County FA to uphold and maintain the standards of the Programme, retain your accreditation and continue to raise standards throughout grassroots football.

"Once again, many congratulations on achieving The FA Charter Standard accreditation".

We would like to thank and congratulate Abdul and the coaching team at HCR, Gam and Raj for their dedication and hard work in achieving this standard. Also thanks to Youssef who has retired from the coaching team recently but was involved alongside his colleagues in getting the award.

We would also like to express a huge well-done to the young people in the HCR team for your hard work and your commitment to our values as a club. The group exercises and indiviudal based interviews you recently participated in, especially on our away day at Cleobury Mortimer in January, all helped not only to get the FA Charter Standard but also to contribute to the future foundations of Halesowen Community Rangers.

As we witnessed last Saturday with the traumatic collapse of the Bolton Wanderers star Fabrice Muamba in their FA Cup tie with Spurs and the coming together of all players, supporters, officials and media in a shared sense of shock and concern, there are more important things in the beautiful game than just winning points and trophies. Building a firm foundation of shared values and standards from the outset will make HCR a strong and caring club which continually strives to meet our aim of bringing communities together through sport, both in good times and bad.