1. WILTSHIRE CRICKET CLUB FORUM
Monday 11th November

2. ORDER OF PLAY Welcome and Introductions Outcomes Framework
Introduction of new roles
Player retention
Wiltshire Cricket Partners
High Performing Cricket Board survey
Wiltshire Cricket Action Plan
Information sharing – Coach Education, Schools Cricket
Ensure that the following are welcomed; Tim Masters (ECB), Clint Hillhouse (Stuart Canvas), James Coney (Total-Play), Steve Windaybank (BOLA), Greg Miller, Ned Lack (Kalibazar), James (Lashings), Clinton/Jamie (CricHQ)

3. OUTCOMES FRAMEWORK
2 consultation meetings with external partners/associations
Internal meetings with staff/directors
All meetings to look at what it is we are here to do. What is Wiltshire Cricket through all of its activities trying to achieve?
Talk about the history behind the Outcomes process, why Wiltshire Cricket undertook the process etc.

4. HOW HAVE AND WILL THE OUTCOMES BE USED?
To check and challenge decision making
To review investment and expenditure
To review the structure of professional and volunteer staff as well as structure of associations
Mapping exercise
Is our structure and our budget aligned to helping achieve all of our Outcomes? Are we investing too much time and/or finance towards certain outcomes?

6. WHAT HAVE OUR OUTCOMES SHOWN US?
We believe we should be the first port of call for anyone wishing to access the game
A big role is catering for people at all levels of the game
Players need to be central to all that we do
Teams are found in all aspects of the game and we want to support them in achieving what is success to them
Clubs are the lifeblood of the game and the future of the game
Highlight the fact that the forum will later focus on players and clubs and how we support keeping players in the game. The outcomes have also been used to help shape our action planning going forwards. This action plan will be presented later in the forum.

7. HOW HAVE OUR OUTCOMES INFLUENCED OUR STRUCTURE?
We recognised that:
Our current structure was not geared up to achieving all of our outcomes
Our structure also didn’t reflect the new funding conditions/opportunities that were attached to us
Without support we would not achieve our outcomes or be efficient in what we do

8. THE RESULTING STRUCTURE
NEW PEOPLE, NEW ROLES

9. NEXT STEPS Self-assessment Insight Led Action Plan
- to include Player retention strategy
- to include Disability Cricket strategy
For this we would like your help….
Explain that having produced our outcomes framework and reviewed our structure it is now time to put in place our action plan and measures against our outcomes. Explain ECB funding require player retention and disability cricket focus

10. PLAYER RETENTION Background
Player retention is a key area of focus for all Cricket Boards
ECB National Playing Survey conducted earlier in year – 21,573 replies – 1st ever playing survey!

11. CORE (play most weeks in teams) OCCASIONAL (play a few weeks in teams) CAMEO (play 1-2 times a season in teams) INFORMAL LAPSED POTENTIAL

15. However, over the course of the summer…

17. YOUR HELP – GROUP EXERCISE
What are the needs of core, occasional and cameo player? How do we stop occasional and cameo players from becoming lapsed players? How do we get occasional and cameo players playing more?
Split in to groups and ask for focus on the above questions, then ask for feedback. FLIPCHART PAPER NEEDED WITH PRE WRITTEN QUESTIONS. MARKER PENS NEEDED

19. Highlight how travel is a very important factor to occasional and cameo players and how this differs greatly to the needs of core players where 51% are not concerned with travel

25. WILTSHIRE CRICKET PLANS TO ADDRESS NEEDS OF CORE, OCCASIONAL AND CAMEO PLAYERS
Review League structures, including number of overs, start times (core and occasional)
Provide social cricket concepts to clubs (occasional and cameo)
More local competitive competitions – Wiltshire Wallop (core and occasional)
Explain that these are some initial plans to form part of the player retention strategy but that feedback from this evening will also contribute. These plans will form part of player retention strategy and relate back to slides 18-24

26. YOUR HELP – GROUP EXERCISE
LAPSED PLAYERS
Drop out amongst year olds is rife
YOUR HELP – GROUP EXERCISE
We all know that players drop out of the game at certain ages but what can we do to try to keep them involved?

30. WILTSHIRE CRICKET PLANS TO RETAIN POTENTIAL LAPSED PLAYERS
Work based competitions (to support the year old age category to continue play cricket)
Promotion of Under 18 Cricket league (to address the 87% of 14+ cricketers who would return to the game and to replace Sunday cricket)
These plans will form part of player retention strategy and relate back to slides 27, 28, 29

32. WILTSHIRE CRICKET PLANS TO ADDRESS THE GENDER ISSUE
Women and girls Super 3s competition
Sub Super 3s competition
Sportivate focus on womens cricket
These plans will form part of player retention strategy and relate back to slide 31

33. Stuart Canvas
Clint Hillhouse

34. Total-Play
James Coney

35. BOLA
Steve Windaybank

36. Kalibazar
Greg Miller, Ned Lack

37. Lashings
James

38. CricHQ
Clinton, Jamie

39. HIGH PERFORMING CRICKET BOARD SURVEY
Background
As well as focusing on player retention, there are many other areas of focus for Wiltshire Cricket for the future
To support in identifying priority areas of focus, a survey was conducted earlier in the year related to the performance of the Board
Explain that the survey focused on communication, decision making, planning, staff performance and performance against outcomes

40. SURVEY RESULTS
How good is Wiltshire Cricket at working to clear terms of reference to enable decision making?
                                                                                                       
Very poor 1 3%
Satisfactory 15
41%
Good 16
43%
Excellent 5
14%
Explain that some of the poorer things have been highlighted as they will be forming part of the Insight led action plan

41. SURVEY RESULTS
How good is Wiltshire Cricket at consulting and validating decisions with you as a key partner or association?
                                                                                                       
Very poor 3 8%
Satisfactory 12
32%
Good 16
42%
Excellent 7
18%

42. SURVEY RESULTS
On a scale of 1-4 (4 being the best), how well do you think Wiltshire Cricket ensures all decisions are transparent, properly recorded and communicated?
                                                                                                        1 2 5% 13
35% 3 10
27% 4 12
32%

43. SURVEY RESULTS
How good is Wiltshire Cricket at seeking advice from the wider sporting network when planning and delivering projects or programmes of work?
                                                                                                       
Very poor 1 3%
Satisfactory 13
36%
Good 17
47%
Excellent 5
14%

44. SURVEY RESULTS
To your knowledge how good is Wiltshire Cricket at acquiring customer feedback throught thing such as surveys, questionnaires or informal feedback?
                                                                                                       
Very poor 2 6%
Satisfactory 15
42%
Good 12
33%
Excellent 7
19%

45. WHAT DO THESE SURVEY RESULTS SHOW US?
Increased focus required on:
- communication
- decision making
- planning
- general governance

46. SO…WILTSHIRE CRICKET PRIORITIES 2014 ONWARDS
1. Player Retention Strategy
- Review league structures
- Provide social cricket concepts to clubs
- Local competitions
- Work based competitions
- Under 18 competitions
- Women’s Super 3s
+ tonight’s ideas!!
2. Disability Cricket Strategy
- Plans to be developed by January 2014
3. Focus on Governance
- Supported by internal self-assessment
- Based on HPCB survey
- Board of Directors to take responsibility
4. Delivery of local priorities
- Abbeyfield School
- Secondary school offer
Player retention strategy made up of themes discussed earlier in the forum. New Directors brought on board to support governance

50. Wiltshire Cricket Limited
Attracting people to participate in Sport with Cricket as a Sport of choice
Wiltshire Cricket Limited
Secondary School Offer
Intra school competition
Extra curriculum coaching opportunities
Competitions
Teacher training
Student training
Holiday camps
Club links

51. Wiltshire Cricket and Chance to Shine
Supporting your school to offer quality cricket opportunities for your pupils
The Cricket Foundation via Chance to Shine is one of Wiltshire Cricket’s major funders with their aim being to rejuvenate cricket in state schools. In the past the majority of Chance to Shine’s funding has been invested in to primary school cricket but through funding obtained via Sport England Chance to Shine is now investing heavily in to secondary school cricket. This investment has been allocated to County Boards to invest in to their network of secondary schools.

52. How does this school offer work?
Throughout this brochure you will read about the wide variety of products and services that Wiltshire Cricket can offer to you as a secondary school. We understand that every school will be at a different point with regards to their cricket provision, hence why each school will end up with a bespoke programme being offered by Wiltshire Cricket. To access any opportunities in this offer please complete the reply slip at the back of this document or contact us via the details to the right.
WCL Office:
Chippenham Sports Club Bristol Road Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1NH
Wiltshire Cricket Head of Schools Cricket:
Ali Goddard

53. Supporting Intra school curriculum competition
Providing opportunities for competition in schools is extremely important to Wiltshire Cricket. On the centre pages of this brochure you will find out more about the various competitions that are being facilitated by Wiltshire Cricket and are available for your school to enter.
However, in addition to running county wide inter school competition, Wiltshire Cricket is able to offer support with delivering intra school competition or can support your house cricket competitions. This would involve ECB qualified coaches coming in and delivering curriculum based sessions that will be based around match play. These sessions cannot be run in isolation and so must culminate in an intra school or house competition. It would also be expected that these curriculum sessions would lead in to an opportunity for pupils to attend an extra curriculum cricket club (this can be delivered by Wiltshire Cricket (see previous page).
The intra school curriculum competition package will consist of 4 x curriculum sessions with the 4th session being an intra school competition. For this package schools will receive the following benefits:
Delivery of 4 x curriculum sessions delivered by ECB qualified coaches with full DBS check
Your choice as to the age group and gender that you want to target
Schools will be expected to have a teacher present at these sessions and there must be an after school club accompanying this programme.
Cost - £60 for 4 week programme

54. Secondary School Extra curriculum coaching
Wiltshire Cricket can offer secondary schools access to ECB qualified coaches to help support with the development of young players through extra-curricular activities. Our coaches can deliver support through the provision of lunchtime or after school clubs for children at KS3 or 4. This coaching support can prepare schools for indoor and outdoor competitions for both boys and girls.
The extra curriculum package will consist of 6 x 1 hour sessions and for this package schools will receive the following benefits:
Delivery of 6 x 1 hour sessions delivered by ECB qualified coaches with full DBS check.
Your choice as to the age group and gender that you want to target.
Cost - £0

55. Informal Teacher support
As well as formal teacher training support, Wiltshire Cricket will also offer informal ‘twilight’ training sessions. Twilight training sessions are a bespoke training session that will be tailored to the needs and wants of the group of teachers in attendance. These sessions are best used to bring your PE staff up to speed with current issues relative to delivering the sport to KS3 and KS4. The twilight training sessions last for an hour but require your school to organise a group of teachers to be present (you can pair with a PE staff from a neighbouring school. The twilight training session can be run at any time of day but works best as an after school session or during a department staff meeting. Cost - £0

56. Formal Teacher support
Wiltshire Cricket has historically worked well with local schools in the delivery of teacher training and CPD. The extra curriculum sessions can involve co-delivery between the teacher and coach creating a ‘learning environment’ in which a better understanding of the game can be obtained. However, teacher training can be obtained without your school being involved in an actual coaching programme. This is through the following means:
Cricket for Teachers – This is a course that is part of the ECB Coach Education structure and gives teachers a formal coaching qualification. The course content includes the basic coaching points for batting, bowling, catching and throwing as well as showing you games and drills to enable you to reinforce those skills and check for learning.
The Cricket for Teachers course is a 4 hour workshop.
Cost - £30 per teacher

57. Student Support 1
Wiltshire Cricket is always looking to support students with developing their CV and through formal ECB courses has the opportunity to offer formal qualifications that will support students in volunteering within cricket; ECB Coach Support Worker This course is ideal for someone who wants to help and support a qualified coach in the organising and delivery of sessions. The course focuses on practical learning allowing students to understand how to make sessions safe, lead warm ups and cool downs and run different types of practice. The duration of this course is 6 hours but can be run in 2 x 3 hour, 3 x2 or 6 x 1 hour blocks. Minimum number for course is 8 and course will be run on school site. Alternatively, students can apply for one of the courses being run elsewhere in the county. (see Cost - £30 per student

58. Student Support 2
As well as supporting students with coaching, Wiltshire Cricket, through ECB courses, also wants to support students who wish to get involved in cricket through a non-playing or coaching avenue; ECB Cricket Activator Workshop Offering opportunities for volunteers to get involved in cricket both on and off the field, the Cricket Activator course helps delegates to consider all the roles that make cricket happen to promote cricket. This course helps students who are looking to deliver a large volunteering project as part of their studies. Perhaps you want to organise and run your own school cricket festival? Not sure where to start and need some advice? The Cricket Activator course can help you with the planning and organisation of a number of cricket related activities. Run over six hours and able to be delivered on school sites, the course give candidates the opportunity to get involved. Cost - £20 per student

59. Club – School Links
A big role for Wiltshire Cricket and Chance to Shine is to facilitate links between schools and clubs. As part of your involvement with Chance to Shine we will promote the opportunities at your local cricket club. We also offer the opportunity to facilitate Satellite clubs or ‘clubs on school sites’. This is an initiative to bridge the gap between your extra curriculum club and a student actually joining their local cricket club. It involves coaches from your local club coming on to the school site to deliver coaching sessions in the name of their cricket club (effectively an outlet of the local club). The sessions should take place after your extra curriculum time period (eg 5-6pm). If this interests your school we will facilitate conversations with your local cricket club.

60. Secondary School Inter competition
Wiltshire Cricket’s Secondary school competition framework
CHANCE TO COMPETE
Chance to Compete is our national secondary school hardball competition aimed at giving secondary state school children an opportunity to play hard-ball, competitive cricket. Matches are played in under an hour and all participants play a significant part in the game.
There will be three different age groups competitions: under 13 boys, under 13 girls and under 15. A series of regional matches are played culminating in a County final and overall County winner. The winner goes through to a regional final, with the winner qualifying for the National Finals Day.
The rules:
• 8 overs a side, games last no longer than 1 hour but played with a hard cricket ball • Mixed teams, 8 players a side, squads of up to 10 players • All players must bowl at least one over (one player bowls two) with the wicket keeper not allowed to bowl • Batters retire on reaching 20 runs (but can return if everyone else is out) • Boys must be under the age of 13 and girls under 15 as at 1 September • County age group boy players cannot take part (County girls may be included)
LADY TAVERNERS GIRLS ONLY INDOOR COMPETITIONS
The Lady Taverners indoor competition is designed for School teams to enter as an introductory format of cricket for girls to enjoy. The competition is played in sports halls with a semi-soft ball and does not require any form of protective padding. The competition is 8-a-side and has modified but simple rules to ensure games are short and fast paced. Some of the key differences are:
- Runs are scored by batters by hitting the walls of the hall – if the batters choose to run also then additional runs are scored. - Games tend to be no more than 8 overs long – within this every player must bowl one over. - Batters are to retire on 20 runs if they are not out before this time, but can return if all other team members are out.
Within the county, we run local festivals to determine which teams are then invited to County finals. Competitions are run at Under 13’s (year 7 & 8) and Under 15’s (year 9 & 10) age groups with the County winners progressing through to the Regional finals.

61. Secondary School Inter competition
Wiltshire Cricket’s Secondary school competition framework
SECONDARY SCHOOL BOYS INDOOR COMPETITION
Having seen a shortage of opportunities for boys to play the indoor format of the game, Wiltshire Cricket have introduced a boys version of the The Lady Taverners indoor competition. The competition duplicates that played by the girls. This initial format of the game for boys is run with local qualifier festivals followed by the County finals. At this point in time the competition is run at Under 13’s (year 7 & 8) age group only.
SUPPORTING PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPETITION
You will read later in this document about student training opportunities. Through our student training we would encourage secondary school students to support with umpiring and scoring at Primary school Kwik Cricket festival. If this interests your school we can discuss primary competition dates in greater detail

62. Competition Calendar
This calendar should give you an indication as to when competitions take place. Specific dates will be confirmed to you as and when arranged
AUTUMN TERM
TERM 1:
Year 5 & 6 Girls Only Indoor Kwik Cricket competition – Various sites
SPRING TERM
TERMS 3 AND 4
Year 7 & 8 Boys only Indoor competition – Regional qualifiers
Year 7 & 8 Boys only Indoor competition – County final
Year 7 & 8 Girls only Lady Taverners Indoor competition – regional qualifiers
Year 7 & 8 Girls only Lady Taverners Indoor competition – County finals
Year 9 & 10 Girls only Lady Taverners Indoor competition – regional qualifiers
Year 9 & 10 Girls only Lady Taverners Indoor competition – County Finals
SUMMER TERM
TERMS 5 AND 6
Year 7 & 8 “Chance to Compete” Mixed Outdoor competition – Regional qualifiers
Year 7 & 8 “Chance to Compete” Mixed Outdoor competition – County final
Year 7 & 8 “Chance to Compete” Girls Only Outdoor competition – regional qualifiers
Year 7 & 8 “Chance to Compete” Girls Only Outdoor competition – County finals
Year 9 & 10 “Chance to Compete” Mixed Outdoor competition – Regional qualifiers
Year 9 & 10 “Chance to Compete” Mixed Outdoor competition – County final
Year 9 & 10 Lady Taverners Girls Only Outdoor competition – regional qualifiers
Year 9 & 10 Lady Taverners Girls Only Outdoor competition – County finals
Year 6 ASDA Kwik Cricket competition – regional qualifiers
Year 6 ASDA Kwik Cricket competition – county finals
To access any of these competitions please complete competition reply slip or contact the WCL office

63. How will this school offer be delivered by Wiltshire Cricket?
Wiltshire Cricket Limited will have two full time Development Officers who will be dedicated to delivering this school offer: Ali Goddard – Head of School’s Cricket Ali will manage the implementation of this School offer, meaning he will be responsible for its promotion and for agreeing which packages within the offer are appropriate for your school. Once this is agreed Ali will then manage the deployment of coaches to deliver each relevant package. If there are any administrative issues related to the school offer or if you wish to provide feedback on the delivery of the school offer then Ali will be your first port of call. To access and arrange delivery of any packages in this offer please contact Ali Goddard at: Wiltshire Cricket Community Coach Wiltshire Cricket will also have a full time community coach who will be the primary deliverer of the packages in this school offer. This person will work closely with your school on a more regular basis to ensure that you are receiving the correct support to ensure that Cricket develops in your school. Obviously the community coach will not have the ability to deliver all aspects of the school offer due to the limited time available to one person. However, there will be a further team of deliverers available to Wiltshire Cricket to support delivery of this school offer. All deliverers will be of a minimum Level 2 coaching qualification and have the appropriate First Aid, Child protection and DBS qualifications. Away from working in schools the community coach will have a club development aspect to their role, meaning they will spend time working with clubs and supporting migration of players between your school and the local cricket club.

64. School Booking form
Return this offer to:
WCL
Chippenham Sports Club Bristol Road Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1NH
Or by to
On receipt of this submission we will contact you to arrange confirm details and develop the bespoke programme for your school.

65. Competition Booking form