NatWest CricketForce in Wiltshire
NatWest CricketForce is an England and Wales Cricket Board volunteering initiative aimed at rejuvenating the nation’s cricketing facilities.
CricketForce encourages cricket supporters, their friends and families to give something back to their local community cricket club by volunteering to undertake major renovations to clubhouses and grounds, typically over a special weekend before the start of the cricket season.
A record number of clubs took part in NatWest CricketForce 2011 - with 1,914 registering to surpass last year's record of 1,642.
Also in Wiltshire we achieved a record number of registered clubs in our CricketForce history and in 2012 we are hoping to improve on this and to make the event even larger.
As mentioned earlier it is a great way to bring the club together and make sure that the club is ready for the new season, how large the project is does not matter, its about bringing the club together at the start of the season and finding new volunteers while carrying out jobs that are needed.
Chalke Valley Cricket Club were Wiltshire Cricket's Showcase club for 2011 and had over 100 people from the local community attend their CricketForce weekend where they erected a shower and toilet block at their new ground. They received support from Wiltshire Cricket, ECB and Hampshire CCC who allowed two players to come down to demonstrate their skills in front of the younger members of Chalke Valley CC.
To register for Cricket Force 2012 -
In order to register your club for NatWest CricketForce you need to be a Main Administrator in your club's Play-Cricket site or hold the 'CricketForce' role (this can be assigned to you by the Main Administrator). If you don't know who the Play-Cricket administrators are for your club please email natwestcricketforce@ecb.co.uk or playcricket@ecb.co.uk.
Once you are in a position to register please follow these instructions:
•Go to www.ecb.co.uk/natwestcricketforce
•Click on the link to register for NatWest CricketForce 2012
•Sign in to Play-Cricket and click to proceed
•Click on the link that reads XXXXX CC registration
•Fill in the required details in the form and continue to the Summary page and click 'Finish'
•If you get a 'Read Only' form it means you are not a Main Administrator nor do you have the 'CricketForce' role (see first paragraph)
Any club of any size can be involved in CricketForce so lets make 2012 even bigger!
For further information contact Pete Sykes
