NEW WEBSITE

Roadmap and Development announcements

Why do we have a new site?

We were approached by Goals Beyond Grass, one of our Partner Organisations with a proposal for a new site that would offer a number of enhancements over the previous site and save us money. The proposal was an opportunity to look at other providers to and following a process to look at what else was available, the Goals Beyond Grass proposal offered some key additions to what we can offer as well as being excellent value for money. This new site is the first step of the development process that will also see the introduction of The WFA Learning Portal, a complete online learning site that will help deliver training in many areas of our sport.

What’s new?

The site has been completely rebuilt on a new platform that is fully responsive to any device and enables us to create content more quickly and with more options. A membership system will still be in place and will become active by the end of July that will be your login for the Learning Portal as well as the main site.

The other big and obvious change is our new branding. This includes a new logo, font/typeface and colours. The changes have been made to create a more dynamic and device friendly site, but very much evolution, not revolution. As you can see then, we have retained the shape and colour scheme of the logo, but have changed the variations of the colours. Find out more below.

Primary Logo

As part of the new build process we have also taken the opportunity to update and evolve The WFA brand identity.

The old logo was designed and produced at a time when Powerchair Football wasn’t the only wheelchair football game in development, so needed to reflect more than just Powerchair Football.

As Powerchair has become the only wheelchair football version, the need to reflect more accurately our sport, organisation and members has developed too. The new logo therefore incorporates graphics that represent the fundamental elements of our sport whilst retaining the shape and colour scheme of the previous logo to allow for continuity and recognition of the history of the organisation.

A new Primary Font has also been developed and incorporated into the website that is unique to The WFA and will be used in all published materials going forward. A Graphics Charter will be published soon to allow clubs and partner organisations to use the new branding correctly in their online and printed publicity.

Alternative Logos

Announcements

Main site

All devices

Fully responsive website for any device.

My WFA – Improved membership system

The ‘My WFA’ membership will be tailored to your role in the community meaning if you’re a player, coach, referee, league official or supporter, you will have access to the most relevant and helpful information. Of course, we know many of you fulfil more than one role, so support for everything you do will be available under a single login in the ‘My WFA’ section.

Up to date stats with Pro-My Sport

Match Day Live: We are currently working with Pro-My Sport to produce an unparalleled Live Match Day page that will give you live tables, match scores, match events including goals, cards and video highlights throughout National League weekends.

Regularly updated tables and scorer charts will also be available on the National League Pages. We have the potential to offer this functionality to Regional Leagues as well, but we will need to discuss this with them individually once we have completed some more development work behind the scenes.

Community Involvement

Community Content: The new site allows us to build really easy to use writing tools so you can submit the latest news from your club, reports from regional league weekends, exciting developments in your area or anything you would like to see on the site, without being a web designer. Beautifully responsive pages at the click of a button! The WFA is its members so we want you to be involved.

Streamlined processes

Affiliation and more: The new site will be able to handle all the affiliation for players and clubs as well as payment processes in much easier and more streamlined processes. As requirements from clubs, the FA and GDPR change, our new system is flexible and powerful enough to adapt and change smoothly. We will also be able to utilise these tools to get feedback from the community to guide our decision making and development of the sport.

Learning Portal

The Learning Portal will become the centre of our training and development for the community. Future coaching, refereeing, club administration, fundraising, marketing and promotion courses will all be available online as well as integrated into face to face courses where appropriate.

The Learning Portal will keep a record of all the training you have completed, allow you to complete refresher courses and print out certificates and confirmations of your awards. Courses planned include the introduction and advance usage of the Pro-My App, Powerchair Specific Coaching, Marketing & Social Media for Clubs as well as many more. Offering training to a community spread wide geographically and with a number of distinct areas of training needed is a challenge and we hope to move to a high-quality online learning platform as a major element of that delivery will transform the training side of The WFA.

This will be available with your single ‘My WFA’ account.