We run girls only squads in football at three age bands and in athletics as one group, coached by our own women coaches.
These are proper squads with their own training plan and their own fixtures, not a girls hour attached to a boys programme. Sixty one girls train with us weekly and the football squads play other academies through the season.
Sessions are at five in the afternoon on a screened part of the ground, and the athletics group trains in the same early morning slot as everybody else but at the far end of the track with its own coach. Parents are welcome to stay and watch at every session and a number do.
We are asked about kit often. The squads train and play in long sleeves and full length leggings under shorts, which is what the girls chose when we asked them, and nobody has ever been told to wear anything else.
Fees are the same as the equivalent boys programme. There is no surcharge for a smaller group.