Get into Cricket 2.0
Get into Cricket initiative centred around training, developing, and rewarding young people at your club across all areas of the game. Book your place
On the back of the success in its first year, Get into Cricket is back and its bigger and better than before.
So, what are you waiting for…? 2024 is the year that YOU can start your journey as a cricket volunteer.
Our exciting programme inspires Young Leaders aged 14 to 18 (school years 9 to 13) to ‘Get into Cricket’ volunteering and will provide individuals with a toolkit of qualifications that will directly support their development. Involvement will also benefit the clubs they’re involved in by encouraging participants to start volunteering immediately, with incentives to complete and log voluntary hours.
The launch of Get into Cricket in 2023 inspired…
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During Get into Cricket you will work through the following mandatory workshops:
- All Stars Cricket & Dynamos Cricket Activators Course (Coaching)
- Introduction to Umpiring
- Introduction to Scoring
- The Grounds Management Association Workshop
- Certificate in Emergency First Aid
- Nutrition and Health Workshop
- Digital Marketing – New in 2024
- Safeguarding – New in 2024
The whole programme will only cost £30 per participant.
Courses close to you… The Foundation aim to make the course accessible throughout Gloucestershire where we will deliver strategically placed courses, one per district and there will be 15 places available per course.
Get into Cricket will encourage you to use the qualifications you obtain on the course to complete voluntary hours back at your cricket club.
Once you have completed all of the modules, the Foundation will offer you tickets to watch Gloucestershire CCC play in the Metro Bank One Day Cup as a way of rewarding you for your commitment. On reaching 20 hours, signed off by a club official, you will receive a Get into Cricket t-shirt from the Foundation’s partners Gray-Nicolls. Furthermore, on completion of 40 hours, you’ll get a Get into Cricket hoodie. In addition, the course will dovetail nicely with completing voluntary hours as part of other award schemes such as, the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Chris Munden / Cricket Operations Manager
Chris is the longest standing member of the team, having joined the GCF in 2008 as a Community Coach. Since then, Chris has developed greatly moving on to become a Development Officer, a National Programmes and Project lead and now the manager of the entire delivery team across educational and national programmes.
His role covers a wide range of areas including overseeing all schools cricket, the incredible National Programmes of All Stars and Dynamos, Chance To Shine Schools and Street programmes along with being the key lead for Adult league Cricket. Chris also manages the Workforce Development Officer, as a highly competent coaching workforce is so integral to the work areas that he leads on. In his time the GCF have won awards that he had led on, including Chance to Shine County of the Year and Street Chance Project of the Year.
As a local Bristolian, Chris is a Bristol City fan, who enjoys all sports. Chris is married, has two beautiful daughters, plays local cricket and enjoys a good hack at golf.