Manager Dan McNamara believes the club’s new Wolves Women advisory board will be invaluable for the off-pitch development of the women’s and girls’ department.
The board, which has been set up this month, will sit independently from the club and guide the long-term strategy, sustainability and growth of McNamara’s side and the female pathway below.
Made up of long-standing chair Jenny Wilkes, former players Anna Price and Claire Hakeman, Lyndsey Hooper of Sky Sports and the BBC’s Caren Davies, the board will work closely with chairman Jeff Shi and the club’s leadership team, which McNamara feels will be important moving forward.
“It's more support and putting more structure in place,” McNamara explained. “Trying to prepare the group for a season in the National League is tough when you've got teams who are operating on full time models like we try to do.
“You need good people supporting the whole structure, and we'll have that with that board. They're going to be making some key decisions and supporting logistical operations moving forward.
“We want to put plans in place to make sure we don't just go up and then come straight back down, providing a good platform to spring on if we get that elusive promotion is key, and I think the board will look to the future.
“They're being tasked with looking at the commercial and marketing side, and we can really push on and start to generate some of our own income, which will only benefit the programme going forward.
“It's not just the seniors that are going to see a benefit. I'm really passionate about the youth side of the club as well and we've had some additions this year with the introduction of the under-11s. We've always operated on two-year age banding, so to add under-11s and start going down to single age banding is brilliant.
“We're expanding the programme and hopefully we can continue making that pathway to the seniors, because we want to ultimately produce our own Wolves players moving forward.”
