First, yesterday’s webinar was primarily a fascinating discussion of the cricket ecosystem; blockages and drivers to the big players – ECB, Counties, County Boards and Clubs – working together in common purpose. The Proposition* recording is here with some money-can’t-buy insights from the panellists and other contributors.
Did Companies House deliberately delay release of ECB and England & Wales Cricket Trust annual accounts* until after the event? No matter as we had all the revelations you’ll need. But if you’re remotely interested in club funding, you should see this anyway.
And then, to boot, Mrs Reeves let go of the purse strings and let DCMS announce, yesterday, it’s splurging £1 billion to boost PE and school sport*. So is it new money and who will benefit?
The Jer Lane issue cropped up in our discussion and the variations in interpretation of Women & Girls’ requirements* for Premier League clubs in different counties. Is there more at play here, too?
The cake ingredients analogy was an obvious reference to the “all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order” sketch and a missed segue into another British comedy classic and you’re all doing very, very well*.
Are the teething problems evident with Knight Stokes cup* in East London common elsewhere in the country?
*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:
- Coping with rapidly expanding player numbers
- Visa certificate of sponsorship problems
- Paying people to do more of the work
- Are you already benefiting from MCC’s Knight Stokes Cup competition?
- Livestreaming and Play Cricket
- County Grant availability
- Game On: Community and School Sport
- Parallels in club cricket with messages in Will Greenwood’s Telegraph article
- ECB’s message for the new season
- Tracking payments online and mobile wallets
- Anyone aware of any deals on Sky or Sky Sports?
- Who’ll help County Boards raise the other £100 million?
- United Nations Environment Programme survey
- ECB and County Board priorities
- Administrators are clubs’ Most Valuable Players
- GrassRoots Club
- Where’s your electricity being used?
- Low fixed cost electricity tariffs
- Future of Women’s Cricket* conference
- Share in lifetime earnings of your talent
- ECB clubs strategy
- Strategic Investment Fund
- Scorers’ Pathway
- Thriving clubs…a collective vision
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.