Club Support

We are thrilled to share a list of grants awarded in Year 1 by the Surrey Championship & Surrey County Cricket Club via our partnership as announced in 2018.

Year	Club	Project
2018	Ashtead CC	Girls and Coaching support / fees
2018	Battersea Ironsides CC	Nets refurbishment
2018	Camberley CC	Juniors development
2018	Farnham CC	Girls Cricket
2018	Hampton Wick Royal CC	Coaching support
2018	Horsley & Send CC	Girls and Juniors development
2018	Kingstonians CC	Coaching Support
2018	Merrow CC	Juniors development
2018	Old Rutlishians CC	Juniors development
2018	Oxted & Limpsfield CC	Girls and Juniors development
2018	Sanderstead CC	Girls and Juniors development
2018	Staines & Laleham CC	Coaching fees
2018	Weybridge CC	Girls Development
2018	Weybridge Vandals CC	Emergency equipment
2018	Woking & Horsell CC	Emergency Equipment

15 Clubs were supported with grants awarded totalling £13,150 with an average grant of around £900 per club. 4 clubs were rejected for incomplete applications or applications not relevant to the criteria.

Applications
The Championship committee along with Surrey CCC will determine whether to approve the grant, upon application. Grants, upon approval, will be paid immediately to qualifying schemes within Clubs.

All grant applications should be sent by email to our Treasurer, Crispin Lyden-Cowan. There is no fixed template but we recommend applications are precise and concise.

Clubs should formally apply for a grant, taking into consideration that the singular aim is to Increase Participation in Surrey Cricket.

Clubs should, however, consider that increasing participation can take a variety of broad forms, and the following ideas may be useful in determining whether your grant application will be successful.

• Coaching Programmes for new age groups.
• Use of innovative approaches to recruit adult players into clubs (e.g. social media, paid advertising)
• Revenue costs associated with training coaches, officials and grounds people to support the delivery of increased numbers
• Marketing and Promotional costs to support player recruitment at all levels (e.g. flyers, banners etc)
• Costs associated with the club running an open day or another style of event aimed at recruiting new members from their local communities
• Enhancing the experience of players – coaching aids, equipment, etc
• Funds that will contribute to an Inclusive Environment – the establishment of Girls Cricket, Women’s cricket, Disability Cricket.
• Entering a new team in the Championship for 2019 – but not at the expense of another league – i.e. a net increase of players.

Clubs should consider their own financial contribution to the application, and indicate this in the application

Clubs should actively seek community participation towards the projects applied for, and demonstrate this in the application.

Please note that there is no limit on the amount of grant that can be applied for, but the Championship Committee and Surrey CCC will want to see a fair distribution of funds across Championship Clubs. The total amount of funds available for distribution in 2018 was £20,000.

The fund may also be distributed for projects that will start and complete in this calendar year or complete in 2019.

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For other funding information, you can download the Surrey Championship 2019 guide here.