da stake casino： The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) projects that £3.6m will beinjected into cricket development over the next five years, thanks topartnership funding sourced from Sport England’s Active Sports scheme andThe Cricket Foundation
da bet sport： ECB Media Release07-Aug-2001The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) projects that £3.6m will beinjected into cricket development over the next five years, thanks topartnership funding sourced from Sport England’s Active Sports scheme andThe Cricket Foundation.Cricket Clubs, coaches and talented young players will all benefit. Inparticular the money will help fund the delivery of District Cricket, one ofthe seven steps in the ECB’s new National Strategy, which will bridge thegap between junior club cricket and County representative cricket. It willresult in:1. Stronger clubs: High quality coaching will be made available to75,000 boys and girls most of whom it is hoped will go on and join a localclub. 1,250 clubs will be given focused support to help them better developtheir juniors (‘Focus Clubs’).2. Better players: A more extensive and ongoing talent assessment/identification process will be implemented across all 38 County CricketBoards through the development of 150 Under-13 and 150 Under-15 DistrictSquads. Thus, over 20,000 players will receive more advanced indoor andoutdoor coaching and will play in Inter District Cricket Festivals.3. Better coaches: additional support, development and training will beoffered to 2,500 coaches.Keith Pont, ECB Development Director, said: “District Cricket is a key stepin our National Strategy, in helping us identify the best players at theearliest possible moment. With so many more children playing cricket inschools and in junior sections of clubs it has become increasingly moredifficult to both spot and develop talented players.”District Cricket gives junior club cricketers the opportunity to getnoticed on a local level and then be coached and compete at a higher level.This will effectively provide them with a shop-window and give the verytalented the chance to make the jump up to County representative cricket.”The Active Sports programme will also allow us to improve the standards ofcricket activity in the ‘Focus Clubs’ to ensure that all children locallyhave the chance to progress to their chosen level at their local club.”The Active Sports programme will be delivered over five years through 45Sports Partnerships that bring together County Cricket Boards and theirrespective Local Authorities. The programme is currently being delivered in12 Partnerships with full nationwide coverage in 12-18 months.When it is fully operational cricket stands to receive over £600,000 p.a.from the Lottery Sports Fund (£3 million in total). In addition to over£125,000 p.a. from the Cricket Foundation in Partnership funding the totalproject is likely to be worth approximately £3.6 million. It thereforerepresents one of the most significant development programmes in grass rootscricket.Significant success has already been achieved:Derbyshire Cricket Board has founded an inner-city club with U11 andU13 teams, thus delivering cricket to youngsters for whom there was noprevious opportunity to play.Dorset Cricket Board has established 11 new U11 Junior Sections -many of which are in remote rural areas.Somerset Cricket Board has been able to access an innovative transport scheme which enables children in outlying rural areas to be taken to and from coaching courses that previously they would not have been able to get to. This allows more children to become involved with cricket clubs.By working in local partnerships Active Sports will ensure theseopportunities are made available to children and coaches in inner city areasand specifically to girls, black/ethnic minority communities and peoplewith disabilities.In addition it is planned to establish a network of local CricketDevelopment Groups to ensure that local clubs, coaches and Local AuthoritySports Development Officers become more involved in the planning of cricketdevelopment on a local basis.Active Sports backgroundActive Sports is a £10m National Lottery Sports Fund programme operatingover a five-year period which will be delivered through 45 SportsPartnerships. The 45 Sports Partnerships have been set up to bring togetherGoverning Bodies of Sport (in cricket’s case, County Cricket Boards) andLocal Authorities to deliver an integrated sports development programme, ona local basis, for ten core sports, one of which is cricket.The following 12 cricket partnerships have received their first year ActiveSports grant:Durham (£13,500), Teeside (£9,150), Cheshire (£14,750), Lancashire(£19,500), Merseyside (£18,000), Shropshire (£14,175), Derbyshire (£14,000),Hertfordshire (£13,000), Buckinghamshire (£12,250), Dorset (£13,100),Gloucestershire (£10,100), Somerset (£11,000).The following eight Partnerships hope to receive a decision within the nextthree months:Northumberland, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, Essex, London(Kent, Middlesex, Surrey & Sussex), Cornwall, Devon
