Volunteer
A wonderful way to be close to cricket, from club to working with the Foundation and the ECB.Establish the right culture at your club that inspires, works with and supports your volunteers.
Recruit
Inspire the next generation and find the right people to grow your club.
Recruit More Volunteers
Retain
Keep your volunteers who make cricket happen.
Retain Existing Volunteers
Reward
Celebrate those who make cricket happen.
Reward your volunteersStart your journey as a volunteer...
Chance to upskill yourself and acquire further knowledge
Help and support your local cricket club to grow
Be part of the Gloucestershire Cricket family
Be involved in a sport that you're passionate about
Use your professional skills to benefit the cricket family
Satisfaction of being part of your club's development
Obtain transferrable skills to enhance your CV
Give something back to your wider community
Try something new & meet new people
Our Young Leaders Course...
Inspiring Young Leaders aged 14 to 18 (school years 9 to 13) to ‘Get into Cricket’ volunteering and provide them with a toolkit of qualifications that will directly benefit them and the clubs they’re involved in, and encourage them to start immediately with incentives to complete and log voluntary hours.
The initiative will include the following mandatory modules:
- 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
- Safeguarding Level 2
Your voluntary involvement helps drive the game forward, and as a result, the GCF will recognise your contribution, providing you with certificates of completion, Gray-Nicolls rewards and tickets to watch Gloucestershire CCC play in the Metro Bank One Day Cup.
Be that someone who makes cricket happen...
Cricket is much more than the 22 players on the field and relies on willing volunteers to give up their time to make a real difference at their club and within their community.
From coaching, umpiring and scoring to social media, photography and web admin, fundraising, catering and grounds keepers, there are so many fantastic ways in which you can help and support your local cricket club, and many that you may not have even considered.
There is something for everyone…
Nicky Clarke / Workforce & Safeguarding 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.
