It’s a hardy perennial because it’s of perennial interest. So our anonymised Quick Poll What will your adult playing subscription be for 2026?* is looking at headlines rates.
But we’re also asking you to amplify in comments any context including increases (or decreases), discounts and payment options, bundling or differential pricing, and anything new or innovative for 2026.
Why is the Club Development section* under the listed Resources by far the most viewed page on our website Members’ Portal over January? What is generating the interest? And what are people downloading?
Have you had any success Using LinkedIn for sponsor recruitment?* What worked and what didn’t? Any advice for Neil?
How much? Any recommendations for reasonably priced suppliers of honours boards?*
From last week:
- County Grants; the reality of ECB club funding* for 2026.
- Even if the numbers are only half right, What would you do with £30 million?*
- What of delivering the most inclusive team sport*? Wouldn’t getting to Australian levels of cricket inclusion be a good start?
- Any thoughts on square robot mowers and hybrid pitches*?
*You should have no problem accessing the asterisked links above so long as you’re a member and logged on to LinkedIn. Not everyone realises we are a closed private LinkedIn group so only members can see your posts and comments in the Group and not your colleagues, clients or other LinkedIn connections.
You can also click LinkedIn group page, log-in from there and scroll through all the content including these other current discussions:
- 150 new cricket centres
- Sport England’s statutory planning role
- Government support for grassroots cricket clubs
- Knight-Stokes cup Quick Poll
- Will you need to be affiliated to get accredited?
- ECB Christmas message in full
- What is core game?
- Powering clubs’ financial sustainability
- Telegraph article: “Grass-roots sports clubs are dying out”
- Copyright threats on your Play Cricket pages
- Spond as a website
- Facebook page
- Replacing the actual netting in your nets
- Pitchero website
- Incorporation and setting up a trading subsidiary
- Just how important are clubs to ECB
- What is Biodiversity Net Gain?
- The cost of pre-Pathways coaching
- England & Wales Cricket Trust’s latest accounts
Links to past discussions, sorted by theme and listed in chronological order, can also be found on the Members’ Portal along with a treasure trove of club development resources, signposted information and sources of support including webinar recordings and club admin product reviews.