- Services for Cricket Clubs and Cricketers
- These links should help clubs seeking outside assistance with a variety of aspects. It is always worth contacting your local county board and cricket conference who may be able to point you in the right direction.
If you provide a service to cricket clubs and would like a link please contact us at howzat@worldcricketcentre.com.
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- Brigg Sports
- Brigg Sports Claimed to have the largest range of cricket eqipment and clothing in North London.
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- Centurion Bat Company
- The Leigh On Sea, Essex based cricket mail order specialist.
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- CH Binder Ltd
- Binder Loams...Binder supply Ongar loam, top dressing grass seed etc..everything required for a good playing surface for village greens to Test and county pitches...
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- Child Welfare at your club
- Every club with a youth section should have a Child Welfare Officer or face potential crippling legal claims. Likewise those coaching, umpiring or managing youth cricketers should be registered as free any criminal let alone offences against children.ECB provides the necessary information in booklet and download formats.
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- Club and Charities Fund raising
- A large web site dedicated to all aspects of the fund raising business for non profit making organisations such as most cricket clubs and all charities.
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- Community Cricket Trust
- Seeks to assist the grass roots game in UK
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- Cricket Conferences
- The three Conferences are the real representatives of grass roots club cricket in England. Club Cricket Conference, Midlands Club Cricket Conference and League Cricket Conference.
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- Cricketfix-Cricket Fixtures Bureau
- Criketfix.co is a free fixture service for cricket clubs brought to you by Weblink Sports Ltd.Better get the club lawyer to look at the Terms of Agreement though!
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- Cricket Umpires and Scorers
- Independent web site for Umpires and scorers.
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- ECB National Strategy
- At Woldingham School April 2001 ECB unveiled its National Strategy for the whole game grass roots upwards.
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- Foundation for Sport and the Artds
- The Foundation funded by the Football Pools was much more active and visible before the National Lottery was set up and much less bureaucratic than the lottery. It is still there and has funded a wide variety and great number of club cricket projects even a cricketer with size 16 feet.
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- Google-Seek and Find
- Not the Googly invented by Bosanquet but the best search engine for cricket with many millions of cricket entries far more than any other.
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- HA Sheppard Co Ltd
- Team injury insurance, third party risks policy sheppard are experts in placing insurance for cricket clubs and players.
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- Inland Revenue CASCs
- There is 80% Mandatory rate relief availble to Community Amateur Sports Clubs and that covers most local cricket clubs.
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- Island Crickit
- The Devon based supplier of bats, gloves, bads and clothing.
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- JMS Cricket Ltd
- JMS have cricket 'covered' supplying a wide range og essential ground equipment such as Mobile Nets, Sight Screens, Mobile Covers etc...
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- Kay Two Cricket Online
- Worldwide online cricketstore created by Richard Simpson with full e-store ordering facility.
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- Kit For Clubs
- CCPR & Allied Bakeries have set up this scheme to provide kit for cricket clubs..December 2003.
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- Knappco & KNP Sports
- Pitch covers, mobile and static nets, scoreboards/boxes and pavilions....
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- Morrant Group
- Founded in 1973 Morrant is one of the lagest and most experienced of mail order sports goods suppliers specialising in cricket, hockey, rugby and netball.
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- National Playing Fields Association
NPFA continues to fight to save playing fields and sometimes develop them. A vital ally for recreational cricket with whom local clubs and County Boards should work closely.
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- Notts Sports
- Notts Sports is a leading synthetic pitch provider at the forefront of pitch technology.
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- On side Cricket
- Seeks to arrest decline of cricket in the community-schools,villages, towns etc
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- Peak Sports Ltd
- Bob Cooke's specialist Sports equipment and facilities company
supplying everything from Artificial pitches to balls and bats.Claims to give the best value to schools,clubs and the cricketer.
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- Pinnacle Insurance
- Pinnacle have launched a new sports accident protection of relevance to cricketers and clubs.
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- Playdale Playgrounds Ltd
- Suppliers of Playground equipment which many big cricket/sports clubs will need.
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- Playquest Adventure Play ltd
- Playground eqipment suppliers
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- Play-Sport
- The current sponsors of the UK National Club Championship made a natinwide series of presentations to clubs, Leaues and county boards this spring promoting their own database facility and club web site services. for more information just click on...
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- Romida Sports
- Romida Online- Claimed to be the largest online cricket mail order web site business founded and managed by Mike Richardson.
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- Running your club
- Sport England advice and support for the development of your club.Interactive,information and workshops.
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- SLR Cricket Company
- THE Cricket Ground specialists working with clubs to raise the standard supplying Scoreboards, Scoreboxes,Sight screens, Covers, Nets and lots more..
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- Sport England
- Sport England,actually the Sports Council of England, process Lottery fund applications...the major source of outside funding available to clubs. ECB gives no funds whatsoever to local clubs instead it pays the First Class County Clubs some £30million annually and about £3million to the Cricket Foundation to pay out to the 39 County Boards, University Centres Of Excellence, Channel Islands and London Community cricket.
Lottery grants involve a lot of paperwork and grants tend to have followed those clubs with good paperwork members especially Chartered Accountants. Very little has gone into joint Club/Local Council/School projects which cry out for this sort of funding.
The Community Sports Budget keeps being into by the Government to assist giant cocks up like The Dome and the Manchester Commonwealth Games and probably 'New Wembley'.
Nevertheless it remains the biggest and best source of outside funds for local cricket clubs.
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- Sportisan
- Sportisan recently set up Surrey CCC's new website and aim to do the same for a great many local cricket clubs. to find out more just click on
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- Sportsnet
- A specialist sports insurance firm who promise an instant quote!
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- Sports Store
- A specialist online sports supplier, founded in 1998.
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- Stuart & Williams
- Manufacturers and suppliers of the famous Bola bowling Machine now with automatic delivery...
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- The Lord's Taverners
- Lords Taverners is a charity which funds youth cricket, disabled young sports people and provides minibuses for disabled children's organisations.
Historically ithas put more money into UK Youth Cricket than the governing bodies MCC/Cricket Council/TCB/NCA/ECB.
Local clubs that are affiliated to their County Boards and run a youth section at their club may apply for grants and equipment.
Because of the requirement for applications to come through County Boards and formerly County Associations many of the neediest and most deserving oc clubs in the inner cities were ineligible for these grants. This is now being addressed and hopefully a more flexible approach operated.
Taverners sponsor and initiated several inner city cricket projects as well as the the two national youth club competitions-Suburu and SunLife.
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- The Sports Business
- Cricket as a business has a lot of catching up to do at all levels but its assets are invaluable and the opportunities legion. This is the online version of the authoritative magazine.
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- The Sports Indusries Federation
- Cricket and Hockey have a section with but four members(20/1/02), Alfred Reader, Slazenger Dunlop, Kookaburra and Unicorn(Gunn & Moore)..there has always been a curious lack of community amongst companies in the cricket market perhaps borne out of a lack of interest from the Sport's Governing Body aside from Helmets.
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- Top Marquees Ltd
- The Charity/Celebrity match, The Centenary,Festival, Cricket Week even a county KO game thre are times clubs need marquees.
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- Work Permits for UK visiting club professionals
- Of course the simplest thing is for overseas professionals to acquire a European Community passport-Irish, Italian, Greek etc but otherwise the Home Office cricket loving mandarins have devised an obstacle course and woe betide if club or cricketer make a mistake. Just as if the cricketer was the most undesirable social miscreant the Home Office sends him back home. For such Mandarins a cricketer sent packing is a good day's play!
As a result the League Cricket Conference have had years of experience in advising clubs what to do and working with the Home Office Mandarins to draw up if not simple procedures then at least fair and consistant ones.
With the lightening recent spread of official overseas professionals in league cricket in Southern England clubs are recommended to avail themselves of this excellent service.
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