Coaches Association

The Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation run workshops and provides development opportunities for Gloucestershire’s coaches.

ECB Coaches Association

The purpose of ECBCA is to inspire participation and maximise performance of cricket coaches and players. Members come from all levels of the game, right from the England team downwards, and have somewhere to turn to get the ongoing support all coaches need in order to be the best they can be.

Nationally, the ECB Coaches Association offers a range of products and services that help you to support players. Your membership will provide access to the latest thinking and developments through our resources, invitations to workshops, networking with like-minded coaches as well as being able to wear the three lions on their clothing.

Coaches who sign up to become a member of the ECBCA will automatically become a member of the GCFCA. The GCFCA support local coaches by delivering workshops and development opportunities for Gloucestershire’s coaches.

Membership Benefits

As an ECB CA member (full or associate) you will have access to the latest thinking, insight and practical ideas from coaches and players at the top level of the game in a number of different forms.

Join today and access a range of benefits which you can access through your on iCoachCricket account.

Cricket Players (SVG)

Wings to Fly

Videos featuring the latest coaching methods, applicable to coaches at all levels of the game.

Coaches Matter

Regular bulletins containing technical information and practices for coaches to share with players.

CA inspire

A unique insight from leading coaches and players.

Hitting the Seam

A magazine including practical ideas and the latest news from the coaching community.

Coaching Insight

A publication offering technical bulletin round-ups and articles on coaching.

Insurance

If you are a full member of the ECB CA you will receive specialist insurance, which includes:

  • Public Liability: The members’ legal liability for injury to third parties and/or damage to third party property, £5,000.000 limit of indemnity
  • Employer’s Liability: The members’ legal liability for injury to helpers in coaching sessions, £10,000,000 limit of indemnity
  • Personal Accident: A range of benefits from Accidental Death at £20,000 to cost of repair of spectacles or dentures, £300
  • Legal Expenses: Recently introduced to provide additional protection for the members in respect of various, potential, legal actions
  • Legal and Tax Helpline: Advice on any legal/tax matter 24 hours a day 365 days a year

 If you need to update or amend your membership details, please contact the ECBCA.

Nicky Clarke / Workforce Manager

Nicky joined GCF from Somerset Cricket Foundation, where she spent 4.5 years gaining valuable experience supporting clubs and leagues, in cricket operations, and with volunteer workforce development.  At GCF, Nicky is responsible for supporting the development of the people who make recreational cricket happen, covering everything from grass to game!

Nicky has spent many years supporting the WEPL Board, providing expertise in using Play-Cricket, player registration, and managed migration to clubs across the West of England.  She is also a qualified coach, umpire, and scorer who has been lucky enough to score at the county ground in Taunton on a few occasions, including England Lions v South Africa in 2022.

Nicky’s home club is Weston-super-Mare, where she is a long-standing volunteer and has been integral in rebuilding the women’s and girls’ section following Covid.  On the rare occasions she’s not doing something cricket related, she has two boys who prefer the social side of cricket to the playing side, she likes to read, run (slowly), and is a half-marathon survivor.

Theresa Ellison / Administration Officer