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Club Development 2022 Update - in excess of £140K paid to Oxfordshire Clubs

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This week saw the end of the first year of the ECB County Grant Fund for clubs where any monies had to be spent by 31 January. We approved grants for the sum of £108,277 in line with our allocation from the ECB across 13 clubs and each of the 3 ECB themes with projects for solar panels, new Practice Nets, Non-Turf Pitches and improving Pavilion facilities. The Grant monies in addition to the partnership funding of just short of £100K saw the total investment in cricket in the county in excess of £200K, not to mention the £30K plus of the Inspire to Play Grants earlier in 2022. All the applications that were sufficiently well progressed were completed with Grants being paid in the final week. The scheme for 2023 will be launched soon by the County; will follow similar themes, however, unfortunately like other counties have received a reduced allocation for 2023. We have carried over a handful of 'in progress' applications from 2022 and will be in touch with those clubs, but feel free to reach out to me pshort@oxoncb.com
Oxfordshire Bulls & Falcons - State School Support Programmes Update

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We are delighted to share an update on our State School Support programmes, the Oxfordshire Bulls and Oxfordshire Falcons. Oxfordshire Bulls and Falcons - History The Oxfordshire Bulls and Falcons programme forms part of Oxfordshire Cricket’s strategy to provide targeted support for state school players who may not receive the same level of opportunity to develop their talent as their peers within the independent sector. Via these programmes, we provide coaching and match play opportunities for state school pathway players in order to help bridge the opportunity gap between independent and state sectors and to assist us in developing a deeper, richer talent pool within the county. In 2021-2022 we broadened the Oxfordshire Bulls programme to support even more state school children than in previous years and we were extremely proud to introduce the Oxfordshire Falcons programme that offered targeted support for state school girls within our pathway. 49 hours of coaching support across the winter months were supplemented by a total of 24 fixtures, including a Bulls Under 11 v Ace Programme fixture which Oxfordshire Cricket hosted at Wormsley Estate, that followed through the season for a range of girls and boys age groups. You can find out more about the programmes and their history on our website HERE. Oxfordshire Bulls & Falcons - 2022/23 In 2022-2023 it is our ambition to sustain the levelling up opportunities afforded by the Oxfordshire Bulls and Falcons programmes and to enhance the offering, removing cost as a barrier for participation by making the programme free-to-access for all state-educated children. In addition to this, the Oxfordshire Bulls and Falcons’ programmes have expanded to offer greater access to additional support across the Winter months. From November through to April, over 100 hours of coaching support has been offered to state school players within our pathway, who attend School Years 7, 8, 9 & 10. The summer months will see 24 fixtures across a broader range of age groups. Fixtures are arranged against numerous independent schools within Oxfordshire, as well as other cricketing organisations such as Lords Youth and The Ace Programme. We are thankful to St Helen & St Katharine School, St Edward’s School and Abingdon School, who host our activity during the winter months, and to all Schools and Organisations who host us for fixtures across the Summer.
All Stars and Dynamos Updates

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National Programme updates below. As always, any questions please get in contact. Registration A reminder you can now register your All Stars/Dynamos Cricket centre. You can do this via ClubSpark, where you can input your dates and times of your sessions. If you are having problems accessing your account, please let me know. Key dates are below. Wednesday 15th February - Participants who have registered interest via the All Stars/Dynamos website, or a previous participant will have the opportunity to sign up in the priority window. Wednesday 1st March - All participants can sign up, with sessions going live. Friday 5th May is the official launch date for All Stars and Dynamos Cricket. Activator Training New activators - Training will be provided free of charge for all activators. The Activator will then have a checklist of items to complete in order to be qualified. In addition to an up-to-date and valid DBS, these elements are: eLearning, a virtual induction session delivered online, a face-to-face training session and the online Safeguarding Young Cricketers qualification. I will release the dates of the sessions within the next couple of weeks and how to sign up, but all sessions are in April. Existing activators - There is no returning Activator specific element to the training this year. Returning Activators should be up to date on the National Programmes eLearning and also Safeguarding Young Cricketers. There is a 3-year accreditation on this meaning if you completed this element more than 3 years ago you will need to redo this. The dates for the activator training courses are below. Your activators can sign up to the courses via their ClubSpark page. (Activators are to attend a virtual and face to face) Virtual - Wednesday 12th April, 18:30 - 19:30 Virtual - Tuesday 18th April, 18:30 - 19:30 Face to Face - Saturday 15th April, 10am - 11.30am - Heyford Park School, Bicester Face to Face - Tuesday 26th April - 18:00 - 19:30 - Didcot Girls School Marketing resources If you would like to start creating your marketing tools for your sessions, you can find our resource hub - here Safe Hands, Insurance, First Aid, DBS Please ensure you have the following in place before the start of your first All Stars/Dynamos Cricket sessions Welfare officer, they are to have all qualification in place including attending the upcoming Safe Hands courses Someone onsite with a first aid certificate Insurance that meets ECB requirements (£5 Million Public Liability & £10 Million Employers Liability) All Activators and helpers (who support sessions more than 3 times) are to have an ECB DBS Dynamos Cricket Festivals Last summer a few centres kindly hosted a Dynamos Cricket festival after their 8 week programme had taken place. The festival took place over a morning, and the game of countdown cricket was played against other centres. This gives the opportunity for participants to play and have fun against other teams. If you are interested in hosting a festival this year, please let me know and I am happy to discuss further.

Cropredy CC to play in the ECB Indoor National Club Championship 2023

03/02/2023

Our County Indoor Champions, Cropredy CC, have been drawn against Ashton-Under-Hill from Worcestershire in the County Playoff Round. Worcestershire are hosting the fixture at the Cricket Centre at PHHS, Evesham on Saturday 4th March from 7-9pm. Good luck to James Coleman and his team. The Winners from the County Play Off will then proceed to the Midlands Regional Finals Day at Uppingham School on Sunday 26th March (subject to final confirmation):- In the Semi-Final they would face the winners from the County Play Off from Norfolk and Bedfordshire - If successful, in the Regional Final they would meet the winners of Lincolnshire and Huntingdonshire. The National Finals are then at Lords on Sunday 2 April.
New Safeguarding Courses

03/02/2023

These courses are for all those who have a specialist role in cricket including Coaches, Activators, Officials, Committee Members, Captains and Club Safeguarding Officers If you perform a specialist role in cricket we ask you to complete the ‘Safeguarding for Specialist Roles’ first and then proceed to complete the appropriate top up module below: Safeguarding for Captains and Team Managers Safeguarding for Coaches and Activators Safeguarding for Officials (Umpires and Scorers) Safeguarding for Committee Members and Club Safeguarding Officers The Safeguarding for Specialist Roles training should take around 1 hour to complete and the top up modules around 20 minutes. The courses are valid for 3 years. SCTM - for Team Captains and ManagersLink SCAT - Coaches and ActivatorsLink SCOM - Committee Members and Club Safeguarding OfficersLink SUSC - Umpires and ScorersLink If you have any questions please contact safeguarding@oxoncb.com
Club Scorer Course

03/02/2023

Oxfordshire Association of Cricket Officials will be running an ECB ACO Club Scorer course on the following dates: Saturday 4th March & 25th March 2023 At Oxford Downs CC OX29 7QH Cost is £30 per course and includes all course materials tea and coffee but you will need to bring your own lunch on each day. This course is for anyone wanting scoring on a regular basis and is the only one to teach you how to score comprehensively. This course is suitable for complete beginners and existing scorers who want to improve their skills, we will also touch on electronic scoring during the course. The course does not teach the Laws of Cricket and all potential participants are advised to use the MCC on-Line Laws Resource to ensure they have a knowledge of The Laws applicable to scorers. See: https://www.lords.org/mcc/laws-of-cricket/elearning/ For more information please email: Helen Meardon - mailto:helenmeardon@aol.com To book onto the course and for additional information go to: SCS/000157 - https://booking.ecb.co.uk/d/hlqdzv

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