Yorkshire Cricket Board’s agreed strategic priorities for investment in terms of this funding:
• We have taken the decision that as per previous years, our priorities when considering applications will focus on long-term sustainability of clubs, aligned with creating a more welcoming club environment and/or providing enhanced facilities and playing opportunities for Women’s and Girls cricket and/or Disability cricket. We are also focusing on tackling climate change but please pay attention to the notes below in reference to Electric mowers and rollers. The guidance on project themes for the aforementioned can be found within the Guidance Notes.
• Prior to commencing with an application we’d recommend that you contact your Head of Region to discuss this, ensure eligibility and the likelihood of your application being approved/successful.
Within the above there are 2-3 key points we’d like to highlight at this stage, prior to any club submitting an application:
Electric Mowers or Rollers
• In particular, with reference to electric mower or roller, such applications are unlikely to be prioritised as we have elected to focus on the aforementioned particular areas that aligns with our County Facilities Strategy and our County Wide Plan. You are able to make an application for either, but we felt it fair to point out that they will not be a priority for us as a County at this stage, should that change we will obviously inform clubs. If you’d like to discuss this, again please contact your Head of Region.
General
• Please pay particular attention to Eligibility (2.2) and note the following within that section: The application still asks for upload of the CSO Safe Hands certificate, however the check by both ourselves and the ECB is that the club has a Safe Hands Management System profile and that they have at least 1 compliant Club Safeguarding Officer. This has been agreed in conjunction with the Safeguarding Team, so for 2024 clubs have to be registered on SHMS and have a fully compliant CSO, uploading the certificate won’t be accepted by ECB if this isn’t reflected on SHMS.
• Other key areas which caused issues for most applications include having an ECB approved constitution (usually non-adoption of ECB Anti Discrimination Code and / or ECB Safe Hands policy), correct security of tenure and within the Supporting Evidence section, planning permission if required and correct supplier quotations.
Contacts for each Head of Region;
- North Yorkshire - Richard Wilkinson - r.wilkinson@yorkshirecb.com
- East Yorkshire - Rob Johnson - r.johnson@yorkshirecb.com
- South Yorkshire - Gareth Davis - g.davis@yorkshirecb.com
- West Yorkshire - Steve Archer - s.archer@yorkshirecb.com
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