Clubmark Clubs
Clubmark is the ECB's national accreditation and is used to create a benchmark for high quality community club cricket.
There are a number of people and organisations who will support your club through the ECB Clubmark process; including your County Cricket Board, County Sports Partnership and local Sports Development Unit among others. Steve Silk should be your first point of call for support and questions, and he will help you through the process of achieving ECB Clubmark Accreditation.
ECB Clubmark gives your club an opportunity to write and implement new procedures as well as acknowledge existing practices within your club. Cricket clubs are required to present evidence and demonstrate implementation across four different themes, culminating in the production of a Club Development Plan.
What does it mean to work towards and achieve ECB Clubmark?
ECB Clubmark intends to build upon the current practices within your club. Each cricket club that registers to work towards ECB Clubmark will approach the process in a different way and be embarking on the process from different starting positions. ECB Clubmark takes this in to account allowing you to work through the process at your own pace utilising existing polices and procedures within your cricket club.
The emphasis of ECB Clubmark is self help. It is like anything else in life, if someone else does it for you, you never learn or change your ways. The support resources in ECB Clubmark are intended to provide as much information as possible to cricket clubs, to use, amend and adopt within your individual club circumstances.
Some of the outcomes associated with ECB Clubmark include:
- A culture change within community cricket clubs, embedding the standards within ECB Clubmark in to the everyday running of your cricket club.
- Engaging the whole club membership to support the high quality development of junior cricket
- A well managed cricket club off the pitch, which translates to wellorganised activity on the pitch
- Eligibility for key funding programmes including England and Wales Cricket Trust Interest Free Loan Scheme and ECB Grant Aid opportunities
- Achieving and maintaining high standards of junior development
- Receiving reward and recognition from your national governing body, County Cricket Board and partners locally.
- Investing in and sustaining the future of your cricket club byprioritising junior club membership
Clubmark Clubs
Throughout Wiltshire we have several clubs accredited with Clubmark status. Alongside these many more are registered and working towards it. Clubmark has been awarded to these clubs in recognition of the professionalism and their excellent conduct across many different areas of junior cricket. Clubmark, once achieved, can help open up several doors in terms of funding opportunities, subsidies and other such benefits
In Wiltshire we currently have the following clubs who are accredited:
- Calne
- Chippenham
- Corsham
- South Wilts
- Steeple Langford
- Redlynch and Hale
- Swindon
- Purton
- Biddestone
- Trowbridge
- Kilmarton and Stourton
- Potterne
In addition to these, the following clubs are currently working towards Clubmark:
- Devizes
- Bradford
- Wootton Bassett
- Marshfield
- Marlborough
- Warminster
- Goatacre
- Winsley
- Westbury
- Beanacre
- All Cannings
