Bradford West CDG

Key Issues & Points

Meeting Wednesday 24 January 2018

AtSteetan Cricket Club

7.30

  1. Present: Shiv Krishan(Chair Acting- Secretary),), David Allen (Treasurer & BCCC), Lee Bailey Mark Pennington (Crossflatts CC), Steve Coultard (YCB) Hafeez Rehman Waqas Khan Salem Athletic Cricket Club Billy Rickets Simon Hicks Saltaire David Critchlow Bradford and Bingley

Phil Poole (DCC David Procter Steetan Ronnie Franks TPE.

  1. Apologies: David Allen Bingley Cong’s- Steve Archer (YCB) -David Critchlow -Bradford and Bingley
  1. Welcome –Shiv welcomed all the clubs to the meeting and thanked the clubs for attending on this miserable night and welcomed Salem Athletic to their first meeting of the group. The Chairman then spoke of the change of venue due the closure of some Zara Sports centre times but the uncertainty of a classroom to have meetings, with this in mind a few of the clubs then offered facilities for meetings which the chair thanked and would take up the offer in future meetings.
  1. CDG Website: The website was still being updated by Ed but due to various work roles Shiv would be hoping to ensure that this continues and a meeting hoping to be held with Ed to get up to date with the workings of the website until we can get the new secretary in place, Shiv then .stressed to clubs that if anyone knew of a relevant person to take up the role please let us know and will shall endeavour to meet.
  1. Treasurer’s Report: David Allen had sent his apologies for the meeting but had sent a email with details of funds Balances at the meeting did include various outstanding bills to be paid for courses which included the Child protection course held at Steetan.

Balance at the Bank at 31 January £2,630.20

  1. Cricket Education: Shiv welcomed Steve Coultard who was doing the All Stars role in the Bradford Area and Mark Jobling was doing the same role in North Yorkshire, the group thanked Mark for all his work and the chair would thank him personally and a thank you letter as mark of respect of all the work he has done. Steve then spoke to the group regarding the Cricket Activator workshop which could be accessed for All Stars Clubs but a great opportunity to offer volunteers training at the clubs

The Group discussed what clubs needed and the possibility of running a First Aid course (Steetan were keen to host and David Procter offered to organise on behalf of the group.) as well as a Safe Guarding if required as this could be done online.

The secretary would send an email out to all clubs with details of preferred dates possible first two weeks in March

. Subsidies were available for Clubs who wished to attend any educational course (see policy statement below).

Subsidies for Courses – “Any courses done by members of CDG Clubs are eligible for a CDG subsidy”. This will depend on the Course and will be based on the level of subsidy previously agreed at the Group’s meetings, Note from the Chairman clubs wishing to access the courses must ensure payments are received in advanced to be guaranteed a place.

  1. YCB Update: Steve Archer sent his apologies but Steve Coultard was on hand to go through a report for the group as follows –

Mark then outlined to the group on Y.C.B. updates.

  • Club mark – Re-accreditation can now be done online. Steve spoke to the clubs and anyone wishing to take up the offer would need to start thinking of getting all the required information now as once the process begins it would be a short period and window of opportunity for a site visit ..
  • “All Stars” – The clubs wishing to take up the offer of All Stars should ensure all paperwork was ready as the deadline date for the online information and Club spark would be the 31 January , Crossflatts and Great Horton Church, Sutton and Salem Athletic hosted All-Stars centres last year and all agreed well worthy of continuing on but added benefits of volunteers as well as increased membership and revenue .. Clubs could now go online and use the website for updating DBS and the question was asked how they could this be done and how to be a verifier-Steve updated the clubs with a number for All Stars Clubs but the question would be asked to Steve Archer or the Y.C.B to help support the clubs in the group.
  • Chance to Shine – This was on-going with schools being signed up for the scheme but with the cost now of £150 schools were reluctant to sign up with only half of clubs being signed up from last year. The sessions were being run by Pro-Coach in the Bradford Area ,whilst this was all agreed an essential part of school club-links, concern was voiced by a few of the clubs regarding access to the youngsters and migration to clubs a brief discussion around this and access to junior teams was major concern ,clubs in the past had sent their own coaches and questions were asked by one of the clubs why this was not the case ,Steve Chair would go back to Steve Archer and Pro-coach to see if we could help solve the problems by better linking in with the programme .

.● Woman and Girls

Soft Ball festivals- Yorkshire Diamonds Roadshows -Y.C.B. continue to support the girls soft ball festivals with various road shows for the Yorkshire Diamonds being run over the county if any club wishing to take part in any of these please contact the Y.C.B. or the Chair who would be glad to help.

● Grant- Funding The E.C.B. small grants scheme was now available details could be found on the Y.CB. website with various targeted groups and priorities for clubs to be looked out the chair then spoke of using the money wisely and possible may looked on more favourable if clubs looked at projects that were of a lower cost than the maximum to give more clubs the opportunity to access funding. The chair then said if any club wanting a letter from the group with support then this can be done, and details could be passed on if required.

Crossflatts then mentioned the Yorkshire Sport Foundation details can be found on the website which they were hopefully accessing with Steve Archer providing support, Steve would be contacted by Steve and the chair to further information as well as support. NatWest cricket force continues to be a key part of club funding and again this year a Jewson account are parts of the scheme Clubs wishing to access this should sign up immediately, so they are not disappointed.

Clubs Reports: The following news from Local Clubs as follows:

  • Great Horton Church – Shiv reported a great success with the junior section with 8 junior teams playing in two leagues last year many of the second team were made up of these youngsters and the club continues to look at upgrade the club house ..
  • Denholme – Phil mentioned various aspects of the clubs 2017 season and he would send a email report to be added to the minutes.
  • Bingley Congs–– No Report
  • Steeton –David highlighted the club success. with hosting the Waddilove cup but also of Bonfire nights Christmas fares as well as upgrading parts of the clubhouse with volunteers to the fore once again. Major Concern for the club was the drop out of 15+ youngsters not playing cricket in the 3rd team he spoke of concerns of formats of the game needed to keep these playing and a generalinformal discussion around this with various clubs showing evidence of drop outs and clubs folding in the recent weeks.
  • Major Concerns – Folding of some local cricket clubs recently in the Bradford area.
  • Three major points came out of the conversation –
  • Merger of teams -possible financial help to form extra third tames as the mergers.
  • Leagues using 20/20 formats more two games in a day every fortnightly.
  • Clubs from lower leagues not getting access to better cricket due to new system,
  • Salem had befitted from a new committee and this year ran two junior teams as well as All Stars.
  • Crossflatts –a copy of the report would be added to the minutes.
  • Bradford and Bingley –apologies
  • Saltaire- new league as well as concern of volunteers use of All stars was mentioned and accessing schools through coaching Chance To Shine programme and the lack of youngsters migrating to clubs from the schools
  • Tong Park Esholt -TPE thanked the ECB for the work done around new pitches but also to ensure the club wren ready to play on the ground for this year. Ronnie then spoke of the junior section being made up of newunder 11 with new coaches in place he added a fresh start for the junior section ..
  1. Club Yorkshire” –Once again mentioned at the meeting and a great opportunity to raise funds for the club with tickets and signed bat. .
  2. Meeting Closed 9.20
  1. Next Meeting: The next meeting Shiv would go back and work out days for June, September 2018 and January 2019 with suitable dates for all concerned.

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