Groundskeeping
The Grounds Management Association (GMA) have a wide range of specialised cricket ground maintenance courses to support the development of Groundskeepers. Gloucestershire GMAIntroduction to Cricket Grounds Maintenance
The ONLINE Level 1 modules cover a range of sports and allow you to gain an awareness and general understanding of the tasks involved in maintaining playing surfaces.
You will learn about the tasks involved in maintaining a playing surface in a cost-effective way.
Intermediate Cricket Grounds Maintenance
This ONLINE Level 2 course is the ideal progression from the online Level 1 courses. Gain knowledge on building maintenance programmes to influence your playing surface quality.
You will learn about applying the practical tasks that you carry out in a planned way though the development of an annual maintenance programme.
Advanced Cricket Grounds Maintenance
The ONLINE Level 3 course for Cricket will allow you to understand about the technical aspects of turf maintenance and management, and how they may form an integral part of a detailed work programme.
This course will allow you to get the most from your surface in terms of quality standards and ultimately, carrying capacity.
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.
