51% under £100 to 49% over £100 is the final result in What will your adult playing subscription be? for 2026. Begs the question: is cricket too cheap? And, as someone in the comments asks, how do clubs charging under £100 pay the bills?
Perhaps cheap is necessary if we’re to become the most inclusive team sport. So who has written Thriving clubs is a collective vision for the future……….*? All those answering correctly will share the promised cash pot.
Matt asks if any club likely to undergo accreditation in 2026 under the newly proposed accreditation framework* have had discussions with anyone yet?
Have you see this brilliantly animated short video Supporting your cricket club? Wasn’t it all so simple then? What happened?
Last opportunity to join one of our We’ve seen the future* sessions is on February 17. Places on the Beta testing group are going fast.
James Kerr is author of Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us about the Business of Life which famously detailed the No d*ckheads mythology recently subject of a less than effusive article by The Times chief sports correspondent. Kerr was guest speaker at the Recreational Game Leadership Conference. Did you attend?
From last week:
- Sport for People & Planet* was published by the World Economic Forum. Did you have any idea how big the global sporting industry is, how big it’s going to get and how significant a contribution recreational sport makes to those numbers?
- Tim is looking for examples of club shirt sponsorship agreements*.
*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
- Club Development section on Members’ Portal
- Using LinkedIn for sponsor recruitment
- Square robot mowers and hybrid pitches
- Reasonably priced suppliers of honours board
- The reality of ECB club funding for 2026
- What would you do with £30 million?
- Delivering the most inclusive team sport?
- 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
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.