Ready for PitchPower

What PitchPower is for

An assessment through PitchPower looks at what a grass pitch needs and produces a report — the evidence base for improvement work and for programmes like the Grass Pitch Maintenance Fund. The current mechanics of registering and completing an assessment are documented by the Foundation at the link above; they are not restated here because process details are exactly what changes between this page’s checked date and your visit.

What to gather before you start

• Who you are: the club or organisation’s formal details, and who manages the ground — owner, lease or council arrangement.
• The pitches: how many, their sizes (the line-length planner is a reason to have measured), and which teams use each one.
• Usage: honest hours per week, matches and training, through the season.
• Condition evidence: where water stands, where wear concentrates, what disease or damage recurs — a season of maintenance log entries answers this in minutes.
• Current practice: what maintenance actually happens now, however modest. Assessments help most when the starting point is truthful.

During and after

Expect an assessment to involve describing and evidencing the pitch’s condition — photographs of representative areas, problem spots and goalmouths are the kind of material worth having ready. Afterwards, the report’s recommendations map naturally onto the routines in the maintenance calendar; where they diverge, the report wins, because it saw your pitch and a calendar page did not.

Printable summary

Print this page for the committee meeting: the gather-list and the boundary statement fit on one sheet, sources attached.