Wellington Cricket Club is delighted to be able to announce that it has secured Club Mark Re-Accreditation from the England and Wales Cricket Board via Somerset Cricket Board for a second time following achieving the award initially in 2011 and then again in 2014 when a first re-accreditation cycle was undertaken…

A lot of hard work has gone into achieving this award which confirms that the Club is and continues to be a place where all can enjoy and participate in the game in the knowledge that relevant best practice and governance processes, procedures and protocols are in place, shown to be working and can be activated at any time that such are required to be…

A Club Spokesperson commented recently ‘Having, maintaining and retaining this award sits well within the Club’s operating model and is looked upon as being a crucial part of how we run both on and off the field of play.’

‘This third formal inspection of the application of the Club Mark programme at the Club was the most thorough that we have ever been exposed to given that ECB and Sport England, who are the ultimate process owners and who then licence the process to NGBs who tailor SE’s generic process documents to their own needs for their own sport, totally re-wrote matters in 2017 for delivery in 2018 so we were amongst the first in any sport to achieve this new more robust version of the award which, obviously, is with specific reference to cricket in our case.’

‘Thanks go to all those who got us to this stage with particular thanks to the Planning and Development Sub Committee that consists of Simon Spalding, Ivor Mitchell and David Derrick who were responsible for the administrative side of this work and to Mark Salter and the Junior Section Team Managers, Coaches, Parent Volunteers and Squad Members for providing an excellent outdoor training session that was viewed by Somerset Cricket Board back in May as they undertook the practical aspect of the award’s assessment. The Board’s assistance and wise counsel was vital too as was the input of Club members who provided material and practical assistance as and when it was required.’

Going forward the Club has to now run internal audits to ensure on-going compliance in each of 2019, 2020 and 2021 before it is up for re-accreditation once more ahead of the 2022 season.