Mission Statement
Objectives of the CCC
1.
Supporting
and promoting club cricket across England and Wales
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Act as a dedicated champion of grassroots
cricket
Do so by both working independently and collaboratively with our partner
bodies (the National Asian Cricket Council, the African Caribbean Cricket
Association and the Club Cricket Charity) and with other community cricket groups
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Work in
partnership with the ECB, county boards, and any other organisations beneficial to cricket.
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Ensure that club cricket is inclusive and
accessible to all
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Be a respected voice with cricket governing
bodies and more widely
2 Help and opportunities for clubs
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Act as a central information hub with the
expertise to direct Clubs to organisations that can best meet their needs and
answer their questions.
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Provide opportunities for Club players to
perform at a high level by virtue of selection for CCC teams at prestige
fixtures and grounds.
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Provide opportunities for Club players to be
selected for CCC and enjoy financially viable overseas tours with prestige
fixtures
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Organise regional and national Club knock out
competitions and Inter-League competitions to provide competitive opportunities
beyond individual County or League structures
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Re-launch a CCC women’s team
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Assist clubs with such requests for fixtures and
grounds as arise
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Be alert for goods and services which, through
clubs’ collective buying power or CCC endorsement may be available to clubs at
discount or other favourable terms
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Provide advice to clubs on request or links to
other sources of advice, in particular about regulations affecting clubs
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Communicate our mission and activities regularly
to clubs, leagues, and others
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Fundraising and financial sustainability
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Hold events, including an annual lunch, to raise
funds towards the costs of CCC’s work for clubs
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Deliver enhanced benefits of membership to clubs
to boost connectivity and to ensure that CCC member clubs continue to receive
value for their subscription
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Give financial support as deemed appropriate to
our partner organisations to support individual projects and initiatives, e.g.
The Club Cricket Charity’s defibrillator project.
4. Strengthening club cricket networks
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Aid collaboration between clubs, leagues and
other bodies
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Support the National Asian Cricket Council’s
efforts to assist the African
Caribbean Cricket Association
and other community cricket groups seeking help
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Foster strong relationships with the ECB and
other key cricket bodies
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Engage with community organisations to promote
diversity and inclusivity in club cricket
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Support campaigns to persuade local Councils to open
up changing rooms and other facilities at council grounds at weekends.
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Develop ways to broaden participation
5. Employment, management and administration
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Oversee the employment of the CCC manager
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Manage the National Asian Cricket Council
general manager
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Ensure the Memorandum of Understanding with the
ECB is met
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Ensure compliance with the Conference business
plan
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Maintain sufficient personnel to meet CCC
objectives
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Maintain administrative support for the CCC website,
payroll, correspondence and other required matters
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Meet Sport England’s governance code, especially
by
being representative of the communities with which we work
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6. A
CCC for all England and Wales
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Develop an infrastructure, budget, and
appropriate personnel suitable for a CCC covering England and Wales
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Adapt, revise and evolve our existing
organisation accordingly
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Elect board members from parts of the country
beyond our historically Southern-based heartland
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Engage promptly with the views of board members
from these parts on how to serve all parts of the country
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Seek to develop the CCC representative cricket
team into an England Amateur Eleven
A Changing Organisation
The Club Cricket Conference is an association of 1,000 clubs and leagues based in the South of England. Established in 1915 it has been through a thorough process of change to meet the needs of club cricket now and in the future offering an increasing range of services in support of its Members.
Feeding the cricketing pyramid - engaging with all levels of cricket
We are committed to embracing the interests of club cricket at all levels ranging from clubs and teams playing in parks to the upper reaches of club cricket. Our objectives are to create an environment promoting opportunities enabling clubs and players of all talents to find a level of competition which best matches their skills and to realise their full potential. We are similarly committed to finding ways by which teams playing on basic facilities can find access to better, under utilised, grounds raising standards and opportunities for all.
Representative cricket and tours
Players of Member clubs are eligible to represent the Conference play at the highest standard of amateur cricket including fixtures against the Midlands Club Cricket Conference, League Cricket Conference, MCC and touring ICC Associate and Affiliate countries and County 2nd XIs. The Conference has always fielded mens XIs, and from 2011 have embarked on a programme of Womens, and U-25 fixtures.
The Conference arranges regular overseas tours. In recent years this has included tours to Australia, the West Indies, Denmark, Oman, Italy, and annually to Jersey. We had a Centenary tour to Grenada and Barbados in November 2015.
Fixtures and grounds bureaux
The Conference has been the leading emergency fixture bureau in the country since its inception.
Our online fixture bureau is free for use by Member clubs, which will also enable Clubs to offer their own, or search for, available grounds. The bureau is open to member clubs and schools and will operate both as an emergency fixture bureau and for planning fixtures for the forthcoming season. Uniquely it will enable those seeking fixtures to describe the standard of opposition required in terms which have stood the test of time on the long running telephone bureau.
The telephone fixture bureau will continue to operate at a modest cost to clubs as before.
Sunday Cricket
The Conference is committed to promoting Sunday cricket to better utilise existing facilities, to increase player participation and to promote close engagement between cricketers of all levels and backgrounds.
Competitions
The Conference runs two 45/45 over knock out competitions, one of which, The Conference Cup is played on Sundays. This is open to all Member clubs with 2 or more teams on any one day. The dates of matches are arranged to enable clubs to contest both The Conference Cup and the ECBs National Cup.
The Sovereign Trophy is for representative XIs of our affliated non premier leagues (& lower divisions of ECB Premier leagues), and is played mid-week.
CCC Advisory
This service has been launched to provide a valuable knowledge base free to Member clubs.
Having the experience of over 1,000 Member clubs and leagues at our fingertips, we have the opportunity to provide solutions to a wide range of issues, topics, concerns and problems which are faced daily by club administrators, trustees and cricketers. It is extremely unlikely that any problem which a club faces today has not been dealt with by others in the Membership at some time in the past. CCC Advisory will find answers to your problems.
If we cannot find the solution immediately, then we most certainly know someone who can. This may be another club which has successfully addressed the problem or it may a lawyer, accountant, surveyor or groundsman who is able to advise on a solution.
The Conference are committed to helping Member clubs tackle the thorny situations as well as simple FAQs.
Fund raising
There are two key annual fundraising events, a lunch attended by over 500 people during November in the Nursery Suite at Lords.