We have now been able to publish the squads and competitive fixture lists for most of the County’s Representative teams for 2008.

Each match has a separate entry and it’s hoped that they will be filled with scorecards, reports and wherever possible, photos of the match.

We wish every one of them success in the coming season!

The individual teams can be found at the links underneath.  We hope to have the remaining fixtures and squads available in the not-too-distant future.

Kent Women - Current County Champions

Kent Girls - Under 11

Kent Girls - Under 13

Kent Boys - Under 11

Kent Boys - Under 13

Kent Boys - Under 15

Kent Boys - Under 17

KCB has been advised of a full time SSCo/FESCo post within the Tonbridge and West Kent partnership.

The Tonbridge and West Kent Partnership are looking for an FE Sport Co-ordinator /School Sports Co-ordinator.  The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, enthusiastic and committed individual with a proven track record in Sports Development or working in the Education sector, to play a key role in increasing participation in sport and physical activity for young people aged 5-19yrs.

A more detailed description of the post is available for download from this site.

Please do not contact KCB about this post. Any questions you might have should be directed to Claudine Fulton or Jo Greig, Co-Partnership Managers, on 01732 500600 for further details.  The closing date for applications is 4th June 2008.

Please see the attached press release from Sport England dated 12th May  announcing the return of Sportsmatch. 

This is great news which could be of great benefit to all cricket clubs in the County and their partners.
 
It is important to pay particular notice to the timescales associated with this announcement.  Note that any applications/projects submitted in 2008-09 will need to ensure that the project in question can be delivered in its entirety by 31st March 2009.
 
The press release includes contact details for further information and enquiries.

Following the recent round of Clubmark Nominated Officer update sessions held around the country, ECB have updated their very useful Frequently Asked Questions document.

It’s available from this website and it does provide some interesting answers to all those questions KCB and its Nominated Officers are most often asked.

You may find the answer to your question in the document but if not, don’t hesitate to contact your Community Cricket Manager or the Nominated Officer in your part of the County.

You’ll find a great deal of information about Clubmark already on this site and a very good place to start is this page.

Kent Cricket Board has been advised that a vacancy exists for a Partnership Development Manager based at the Canterbury High School.

Canterbury High School at The Canterbury Campus is an official training venue for the London Olympics of 2012.

Details are available from this website and an application form can be found at www.canterbury.kent.sch.uk

KCB receives all sorts of information about clubs and their activities but this one takes some beating.  Might it be an English Club record?  If you know one way or the other, drop us an email by using the link on the left of every page of this website.

This is as it was told:

“A few years ago Jon Taylor was standing with Sheffield Farnell, sipping a pint of mild, discusssing the price of whippets and flat cap collections when Jon turned to him and said “Wouldn’t be interesting if we absorbed new players and retained and utlized junior players and increased the number of teams we fielded. With a good wind, and with some quality organisation from skippers we could field 10 teams, of which would be in leagues.”

The reply was along the lines of “Eee ba gum JT, you’re flippin mad - thou can ne’er do that. The biggest club in t’world is Hallam Colliery Workers wit’ 4 sides … its madness, sheer madness …”

As he shuffled into the distance muttering about the cost of beer in London, the plan was hatched …

Long story short - this weekend Blackheath will field 10 Saturday Senior teams.  And have 3 senior sides on Sunday.

Roll on 2008.”

Quite, quite remarkable.  Is it a record?  Could very well be.

We’ve added today the complete fixture list for this year’s MCC Under 13 ‘Spirit of Cricket’ in Kent as well as the Nationwide Under 15 National Club Competition, memorably won last year by Tunbridge Wells.

You can find the details of the Under 13 Competition here and the Under 15 event here.  Heidi Coleman at KCB will be able to answer any questions about anything here or if she’s not available you can always talk to your Community Cricket Manager.

Around about 2 years ago Sport England engaged Knight, Kavanagh and Page (KKP) to manage for them what had become the hugely successful Clubmark programme.

When the England and Wales Cricket Board became the first national governing body to be licensed to award Clubmark accreditation on behalf of their own sport, they too turned to KKP for assistance with managing their burgeoning programme.

KKP have developed a website totally dedicated to Clubmark:  it is a mine of information and other news and well worth visiting.  KCB recommends that individuals register as a member - do that and you will get access to the “members only” area of the site.

Whilst on the subject of Clubmark and KKP, one of the things they maintain is a database of sports clubs that have been accredited. It’s available for download on their site - but only to members!

In the meantime the following might be of interest to you.  It’s the top 3 sports as far as accreditation is concerned:

Sport                        Clubmark
                                        Clubs
Cricket                                951
Swimming                         481
Rugby Union                     419

There are a total of 3,773 sports clubs throughout the country that have been awarded Clubmark.  Cricket is by far the most successful sport in those terms with 25% of the total number of Clubs accredited.

We’ve prepared the full list as it is at 9th May 2008 and made it available for download.

The May 2008 CricketForce newsletter is now available and contains lots of useful information including some very early news about the 2009 event.

The newsletter can be found on this website. 

As an urgent matter, the Evaluation deadline is 16th May 2008 – please go to the ECB website and follow the link to complete yours.

Would all Clubs please note that Clubmark now requires an insurance policy to be in place which provides cover for £5 million public liability and for all junior coaching and match activity.  This is a change from the previous figure of £2 million.

To help Clubs ECB has negotiated such a policy with two providers, Marshall Wooldridge and Club Care Insurance Programme - Cricket Foundation at Kerry London. 

Other providers are of course available but a check should be made with them that cover as described above is part of their policy.

Proof of the necessary cover by way of a copy of the Club’s Policy is required to be included in a Clubmark Evidence File and also to be displayed on the Club’s noticeboards. 

Insurance is an item that any Clubmark site visit will cover:  it includes any Annual Health Check your Club may be randomly selected for as well as any visit arranged as part of the accreditation or re-accreditation process.