THE CHAIR AND EVO BRAVE THE FLOODS!

The Chair and Evo paddled through the floods in East Devon but fortunately the Devon Cricket Foundation Club Seminar – “Thriving Today, Securing Tomorrow – The Future Of Your Club” was held in a sandy area, namely Sandy Park. (A former Exeter Chief has played cricket at The Rec and another watched Torquay CC at Budleigh Salterton CC.  Name them!)

After surviving the wroth of Evo for not knowing about the Volunteer Moment of the Year photo there was a brief Introduction from Matt Theedom the Devon CF CEO, who actually made his debut for Sandford CC 1st XI as an emergency sub fielder many years ago at The Rec.  The two worrying stats he provided was there had been 22 Safeguarding cases and 9 cases dealt with by the Cricket Regulator – fortunately none involving TKCC as far as I am aware.

Next up was Scott Chappell the Operations Manager for the CF who just went through a few points at a high level.  Scott was then followed by the “Queen of W&G Cricket” better known as Ann-Marie Presswell who talked about how clubs could get involved with the Women’s T20 World Cup this year – TKCC have been proactive and are already a Supporter Club for the tournament.  The first half of the seminar ended with the key note speaker, James Simpson, a Senior Manager from the ECB who briefed the room on new developments on supporting clubs and volunteers including the new Accreditation and Affiliation process.

After a short break there was three breakout workshops (sadly TKCC could only attend two being a person light but the clb’s representation was better then many).  The Chair with his legal hat on headed for “Club Legal Status Options” while Evo with his EDI hat on headed for “Creating a Welcoming Environment.”  Both workshops certainly gave food for thought – more details once the Club Committee has met post AGM.  The missing breakout workshop was “Funding and Facilities.”

The strapline from Evo though was simply, “plenty of ideas and plenty of support to develop them.”