Committee

Flame Manager

Held by Meg MacDonald

Responsibilities: Flame-specific club documentation and communication tools, safeguarding and required certifications, BAFA communication and payments, sourcing equipment (footballs, ink and paper, pylons, cones), organising feedback, transparency.

Current add-ons: pitch bookings* and gameday info packets**, finance*, recruitment*, kit design* and merch design/management**, social media***, team management*, film**.

Finance Chair

Held by Meg MacDonald

Responsibilities: manage incoming payments for club fees, team fees and other orders. Manage outgoing payments for pitch bookings, PlaymakerX, equipment and so on, and build a seasonal budget.

Social Chair

Held by Natalie Aghajanian

Responsibilities: organise club events and outings to build camaraderie and team spirit. Manage in-season team building and foster connections and mentoring between new and seasoned players.

Tournament Chair

Held by Oyku Kaya

Responsibilities: review potential tournaments and player requests, and decide on fit and interest. Manage the tournament group chat and interest polls. Coordinate team registration, a group chat for each tournament, travel planning and schedule distribution.

Marketing & Sponsorship Chair

Held by Lillian Kustec

Responsibilities: find sponsorship opportunities and reach out to businesses for partnerships. Help newer players with professionalism and branding. Help the social media chair with Flame's social image.

Social Media Chair

Held by Matilda Deakins

Responsibilities: request graphics for gamedays, tournaments and more (from Matt Bourke). Manage Flame's Instagram posting, commenting and tagging. Pick photos from the Drive for posts. Create content and videos for Instagram.

Team Gameday Manager

Held by: TBD

Responsibilities: for each of your team's gamedays, write up and send out the schedule of game times based on the season schedule. Choose arrival times, warm-up times before each game, and breaks. Assign players to your team's reffing slots, with times and roles. Print out or get the team roster from JustGo and bring it to gamedays for the roster check with the opposing team before the first game. Make sure assigned referees are in the right place at the right time and are prepared.

Resources: Gameday info folder · Guide to downloading rosters

“Teams should bring a printout of rosters to games and check them off at the start of the day against the first team they play, who should sign it – only coaches and players listed on the roster should participate.”

Film Chair

Set up the camera tripod and record games (and some trainings). Get videos off the camera and into Google Drive. Stitch clips together if needed. Swap batteries during gamedays if needed. Record, or delegate recording of, close-up gameplay and B-roll on gamedays.

Kit & Merch Chair

Manage Football America, Nuola and any other merchandise sites for London Flame (remove, adjust or add items). Design new items and open team votes. Coordinate bulk orders and the preseason kit order.

Head Coach & Offensive Coordinator

MJ Amajie / Russ Hewlitt

Build the playbook and manage offensive play calling. Set the tone and strategy for the teams and manage player feedback. Build rosters and move players between teams. Manage playing time and gameday decisions.

Defensive Coordinator & Assistant (Player) Coach

Meg MacDonald

Build the defensive playbook and strategy. Plan drills and help with fundamentals and mechanics. Call defensive plays when appropriate.

Assistant Coach

Ben Slade

Work with players on offensive and defensive mechanics and fundamentals. Plan drills and help build the playbook.