JustGiving for Sports Clubs
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JustGiving have teamed up with Sport England and the CCPR to bring our service to Community Amateur Sports Clubs, also known as CASCs for free!
How can JustGiving help your club?
· You can raise money more easily, quickly and efficiently.
· We make claiming Gift Aid easy, as we do all the administration for you.
· HMRC have estimated that only 10% of CASCs are utilising their ability to claim Gift Aid!
· Our payments are weekly, so you know when they are comin...
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Isle of Wight Coaches Association AGM Notice
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The Isle of Wight Coaches Association is holding its AGM meeting on the 25th March at Newclose County Cricket Ground.
All coaches are welcome to attend the meeting which starts at 7pm.
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London 2012 - Island Open Weekend 2010
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To celebrate London 2012, each year in the build up to the games the Olympic Organisers host an annual UK-wide celebration counting down to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
‘Open Weekend 2010’ will take place on 23 - 25 July, as we start the countdown to two years to go to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Open Weekend 2010 hopes to inspire others to get involved in sport, art and culture across the UK. This year London2012 are asking for organisations (including sports club...
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Cricket Club Insurance
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Dear Cricket Club Official/s
Please find attached the latest insurance information from Marshall Wooldridge, Extra Cover, the Official Insurance Scheme for The ECB. In the light of many previous challenges and recent flood damage faced by cricket clubs the ECB are keen to ensure that all affiliated clubs are adequately insured and at the best available rates. With this in mind please read below and attached information. Cricket clubs will/may have their own insurance arrangements but the ECB ...
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Club Fundraiser
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The Isle of Wight Cricket Board is looking to run a Grand Draw, which will allow clubs to raise vital funds for themselves during the 2010 season.
The Draw Format: -
· Clubs pay £75 to the IWCB to administer the draw and source prizes.
· Clubs will be given 500 tickets to sell. Each ticket will be worth £1 and that money stays with the club.
· Each Clubs has the potential to raise £425 and more if they can sell more than 500 tickets.
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2010 Island OSCA Awards
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The Isle of Wight Cricket Board will once again be running an
local version of the ECB's Natwest OSCAs (Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards).
The OSCAs is about giving the Islands clubs the chance to recognise those volunteers who with out them the club activity would not be posible
There are seven categories that volunteers can be nominated for: -
· Behind the Scenes - Someone "invisible" that your club couldn't do without; the unsung hero.
· Bu...
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First Aid Course
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The IWCB will be running afirst aid course in March for those needing to renew or take for the first time.
The course will be run by qualified trainers from the St John's Ambulance Service.
The course will cover Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and cricket related injuries.
Dates: 8th March 10
Venue: St Johns Ambulance HQ, 12 Manners View, Newport, PO30 5FA
Time: 6-9pm
Cost: £25.
To Book a place on the course send in a cheque made payable to IWCB for £25 to ...
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Indoor League Report - Week 12
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Ventnor lifted the Division 1 title last Sunday at Fairway Sports Complex with a convincing win over Ryde. Ventnor opened the batting knowing a defeat could allow Newport to snatch the title on run-rate. Reaching 128 without loss, Ventnor took risks to drive the score on and lost all six wickets in the closing stages to end on 155 all out (Adam Hose 38, Mark Whyte 29, Lawrence Tolfrey 3-36). Early aggressive batting from Ryde set nerves jangling but with wickets falling regularly the chase peter...
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Briggs gets Player of Match.
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On Monday (18th Jan) England beat Afghanistan in Group A of the Under 19 World Cup in New Zealand. Island left-arm spinner Danny Briggs took Player of the Match with figures of 10 overs 1 maiden 15 for 3.
Previously he top scored with 41 not out in a warm up match against New Zealand.
England who lost to West Indies in the quater finals will play India in the playoffs on Monday - 25th Jan. Details from Yahoo Cricket
http://iccu19worldcup.yahoo.net/
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Update - Guidelines for Junior Players playing in Open Age Cricket
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The ECB have update the Guidelinesfor junior players playing in open age group cricekt matches. The changes are shown below, but also attached are the full guidelines.
1. The guidelines will allow junior players in Year 8 at school ( Under 13 at midnight on 31st August in the year preceding the current season ) to play in open age cricket providing ‘Explicit Written Consent’ to play in open age cricket has been obtained prior to play.
N.B. The existing Player Profile dated November 2008...
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Club & Coach Development Courses
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Please find details of course being run by the Isle of Wight Council Sport Unit.
The Courses are: -
Safeguarding & Protecting Children
Club for All
A guide to Long Term Player Development
Equity in Coaching
All Courses are £15 each per person.
Time 6.30-9.30pm
Venue: Riverside Centre, Newport
To book a place please contact Thomas Lyons at the Council on (01983) 823818 or sports.unit@iow.gov.
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Coach Development Workshops
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The Isle of Wight Coaches Association is running six coach development workshops.
The target audience for the following workshops are ECB L2 & UKCC L2 Coaches. The workshops are compulsory prerequisites for progressing to the ECB Club Coach Award Assessment. Please apply as below for details of the 2010 Assessment sessions.
CDW1; Developing Batters
Wed17th, February 2010. 6.30p – 9.30pm
CDW2; Using Video When Working With Batters
Sat 13th March 2010. 9am – 12 noon
CDW3: W...
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Safe Guarding & Protecting Children (SPC) Course
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The Isle of Wight Cricket Board are running the safeguarding and protecting children course for anyone at a club who is required to attend.
Who requires to attend: Coaches, Senior Team Captainis, welfare Officers and anyone who took the course around three years ago to renew
Date: 3rd March 2010
Time: 6 - 9pm
Venue: Lake Middle School
Cost: £12pp (includes all resources)
To book a place please complete the booking form attached and send to: Stuart Chatfield, Newclose CCG, Black...
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Island Boys Selected for England Learning Disabilities Cricket Team
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Pete Brown & Doug Randall from the Isle of Wight have been selected for the England team and will travel Down Under to take on Australia and South Africa in a tri nations tournament.
The England Learning Disability Cricket Team fly out to Melbourne on November 27 to compete in the 3rd Tri-Nations tournament against South Africa and Australia.
With a current batting average of 39.25 all eyes will be on Manchester’s Chris Edwards, England’s top batsman, to perform well. Meanwhile, Tom S...
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World Cup Selection for Briggs
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The Island's Danny Briggs has been selected to travel to New Zealand as part of the Engalnds ICC U19 World Cup Squad. This tops of a great year for Danny who made is debut for Hampshire 1st XI this year and has already represented England at U19 Level.
The ICC tournament is taking place in New Zealand from 16th-30th January 2010 and Danny and his team mates will be leaving on New Years Day for Wellington. The team has two warm up games against Papua New Guinea U19 on 11th January and New ...
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Is your club adequatley insured?
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Research undertaken by the ECB on clubs and affiliation has highlighted that many clubs may not have adequate insurance cover.
This has been brought to light through the flooding last year and that maybe a threat at present in certain areas of the oountry. So please read the attachment below and check your policy.
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Scorers Course Level 1
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The Isle of Wight Association of Officials is running a Level 1 Scorers Course in the New Year.
Dates: Jan 20th & 27th, Feb 3rd & 10th (Must attend all dates)
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: £25 includes membershipto ACO
Venue: Newclose
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Dates: Feb 25th March 4th, 11th, 18th (Must attend all dates)
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: £25 includes membershipto ACO
Venue Newclose
To Book please send in cheque and Booking Form attached below.
More information and an outline of the course c...
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Newport win the Harwoods Renault 2009 Indoor Cup
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Newport lifted the Harwoods Renault Indoor Cup Fairway Sports Complex last Sunday in a low scoring final against Ryde Cavaliers. Cavaliers won the toss and elected to bat, but could only post a moderate 100 all out, as none of the batsmen were able to post an innings anchoring score. Newport got off to a steady start in reply before a clatter of wickets left them still needing 13 off the last 3 overs with just 1 wicket remaining. Roshan Dias (34no) looked unruffled by the tension to see Newport ...
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ACO Umpires Level 1 Training Course
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The IWCB ACO will be running a Level 1 Umpires Training
Course.
The Course Content is in the attachment at the bottom of the page. but the course covers all the Laws of the games, which are split into two main types, Administration and Pratical.
Dates: 22nd, 29th Nov & 6th, 13th Dec
Time: 10am to 1pm (Except the 13th Dec, which is 10am-12pm)
Cost: £25 (£20 refund is the candidate joins the ECB ACO).
if you would like to find out more information please contact Mich...
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Isle of Wight Cricket Board AGM Notice
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To all Isle of Wight Cricket Board Members
27th October 2009
The Annual General Meeting of the Isle of Wight Cricket Board Limited will be held on Monday 23rd November, 2009 at the Newclose County Cricket Ground, Blackwater Road, Newport at 7.30p.m.
Please also find attached an agenda for the Annual General Meeting, together with a copy of the minutes of the AGM held last year, accounts for the financial year ended 30th September, 2009, and the Articles and Memorandum of...
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ECB Fast Bowling Directives Change
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The ECB Fast Bowling Directives have changed following a two year consultation process. The outcome is that bowlers up to under-15 level are now able to bowl longer spells and more overs in a day.
Under the new guidelines bowlers at under-16 and under-17 level are now permitted to bowl an extra over per spell but those in the under-18 and under-19 category have had the total number of overs they can deliver per day reduced from 21 to 18.
These guidelines will come into effect for the start...
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UKCC Level 2 (ECB Coach Award) Coaching Course
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The Isle of Wight Cricket Board is running a UKCC Level 2 Coaching Course in early 2010.
The role of the ECB Coach Award (UKCC 2) holder is to be able to:-
“Prepare for, deliver and review coaching sessions”
This course will help you to be able to:
- Introduce and develop the game of cricket to people of all ages in a fun and enjoyable way
- Develop FUNdaMENTAL movement skills
- Develop and improve players (as people as well as cricketers) particularly at FUNdaMENTAL and L2T stage...
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View from the Middle
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View from the Middle is the ECB's quarterly magazine, which delivers up dates on key developments and looks back over the cricketing activity in that quarter.
To watch the latest edition please click on the link below
www.ecb.co.uk/viewfromthemiddle
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Sky Offer
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Here is the latest offer for cricket clubs from Sky which is available until July 2010.
Please make your cricket clubs aware of this offer as from £121 per month this represents a significant saving from previous offerings.
If clubs have any specific questions please ask them to contact Sky direct on the number attached.
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IWCB Presentation Evening
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This years Isle of Wight Cricket Boards Presentation evening is being held at Sandown High School in the South Hall on the 19th November.
The evening will begin at 7pm sharply.
All cup and league winning teams are invited to attend the evening, along with all players that represented the county in representative teams in 2009.
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Kids Half Term Cricket Courses
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COURSE A –FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 8 TO 11 YEARS OLD - SoftballBall
Monday and Tuesday 26th and 27th October 2009 10am to 1pm
COURSE B – FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 11 TO 13 YEARS OLD - Hardball – protective equipment Essential but can be supplied.
Thursday and Friday 29th and 30th October 2009 10am to 1pm
ALL COACHING FROM ECB QUALIFIED COACHES.
COST: £32.00 PER COURSE (TWO DAYS)
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Want to raise JUNIOR participation at your club???
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Want to raise junior participation at your club or within your sport? Want to get funding to do so?
The Isle of Wight Council have now been co-ordinating the ‘Sport4Kids' scheme for 6 months. The aim of the scheme is to get more young people involved in playing sport and physical activity, especially those that do not do so already!!
The scheme operates as a partnership through the IWC Sports Unit and local sports clubs & coaches.
The Sports Unit are currently looking for mor...
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Annual Community Sports Clubs Conference
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The Isle of Wight Council are holding there 3rd Annual Community Sports Clubs Conference on Monday November 9th. This year’s conference will be hosted at St Georges Football Ground.
IOW Community Sports Clubs Conference
St Georges (Newport FC)
Monday 9th November 2009
6:30 to 9pm
Buffet Included!
The conference is designed for all involved in sport, especially sports clubs, club officials, coaches and volunteers. The aim of the conference is to highlight important information for sport...
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2010 County Age Group Nomination Open!!!
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The Isle of Wight Cricket Board are looking for nomination for the 2010 county age group squads.
Nomination will be accepted from Affiliated Clubs, Schools and Individuals. All nomination must complete on the designated form.
The Cricket Board will be running winter training at the following age groups U10/11, U13, U14, U15, U17 and U21. If you are an U12 please nominate yourself for the U13's.
Trials will take place at the Isle of Wight Cricket Academy the week beginning the 2nd...
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Harwoods Renault Indoor Cup
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The Harwoods Renault Indoor Cup fixtures can now be found in the fixture list. This year the Indoor season starts a fortnight later on 18th October
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