Coach Development
Coaching is an enormously rewarding and a crucial role in cricket.
We've got a course for you.
Coaches play a crucial roles in inspiring and developing players at all levels of the game.
Whether it is about putting something back into the game you love, progressing your career, helping out at your local club, or simply providing more support to your child, there is a reason for everyone to get involved in cricket coaching.
Which Course is the Right Course for you?
Bursaries for Coaches
ECB Bursaries intend to increase the diversity of learners new to coaching or those taking the next step on their coach development journey.
Support Coach
An introduction to coaching that gives learners the key skills to support qualified coaches.
Foundation Coach
The first step on the coaching pathway, enabling coaches to lead sessions independently and without supervision.
Core Coach
Designed to give coaches the technical knowledge to develop players.
Advanced Coach
A Level 3 qualification designed to prepare coaches to coach in the talent pathway, performance and professional game.
Specialist Coach
Designed for coaches who want to develop specialist areas of expertise in coaching cricket.
Coach Connect
Our support system for coaches wanting to refresh their skills and share their knowledge.
ECB Coaches Association
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.
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.
