The Community and Development team works within the cricket community across a broad range of areas to develop and improve the game, notably in the areas of quantity ie numbers playing the game, and quality determined by their experience of the game from the level of coaching to the quality of facilities available.
Meet The Team
Mandy Wright
Role: Community and Development Manager
Responsibilities:
- Overall Strategic Lead
- Line Manager to the Community and Development Team
Alan Harrison
Role: Cricket Development Officer - Workforce
Responsibilities:
- Manage the promotion and delivery of a range of formal and informal Coach Education and Officials Training courses
- The active engagement of volunteers within cricket
- Identifying current/future needs and developing the recreational workforce accordingly, including gaps in minority groups within the workforce
- Performance management of the community coach team
Ian Dipaolo
Role: Cricket Development Officer - Participation & Growth
Responsibilities:
- Explore and develop new opportunities for growth in non-traditional formats by developing tailored programmes to inspire people to take part informally through back yard, tapeball, urban and indoor cricket
- Support the participation base for casual cricket by facilitating new formats of the game led by community insight using health, community cohesion, education and employability as key drivers for change and making the case for the social and economic benefit of our sport
- Develop cricket for juniors, adults and families using local insight to create non-traditional formats and competitions
- Develop growth opportunities for our diverse communities
Claire Page
Role: Office Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Provide administration support to all the CDOs
- Co-ordinate and manage match day volunteers
Josh Scully
Role: Cricket Development Officer - Teams & Leagues
Responsibilities:
- Look after the needs of clubs/teams and the leagues they take part in (e.g. capital infrastructure, Clubmark, CricketForce, funding, OSCAs, small grants scheme and training courses
- Work with the leagues to help develop playing opportunities
Andrew Wilson
Role: Club Development Officer
Responsibilities:
- Working specifically with clubs in the north
- Look after the needs of clubs/teams and the leagues they take part in (e.g. capital infrastructure, Clubmark, CricketForce, funding, OSCAs, small grants scheme and training courses
Joe Fish
Role: Club Development Officer
Responsibilities:
- Working specifically with clubs in the south
- Look after the needs of clubs/teams and the leagues they take part in (e.g. capital infrastructure, Clubmark, CricketForce, funding, OSCAs, small grants scheme and training courses
Graham Redfern
Role: Cricket Development Officer Inclusion & Diversity/County Welfare Officer
Responsibilities:
- Women & Girls cricket
- Disability cricket
- County Safeguarding and Welfare for young people and vulnerable adults
Stephen Campbell
Role: Cricket Development Officer - Young People (Schools)
Responsibilities:
- Chance to Shine - Primary Schools
- Cricket in the Community – Primary Schools
- School Competitions (Key Stages 1-4)
- Junior Outlaw Coaching Programmes
Gareth Isaac
Role: Cricket Development Officer - Young People (Clubs)
Responsibilities:
- Identify schools surrounding ASC’s to target local marketing and promotion
- Identify, schedule and deliver ASC promotion beyond school environments.
- Coordinate and deliver ASC centre quality assurance measures (e.g. centre visits, acting on customer survey responses etc.)
- Under 19s T20 Blast
