Wellington Cricket Club

The Club has secured three sponsors for season 2012; long term sponsor Hal White of Tiverton Carpets and Suites (aka Tiverton and Taunton Flooring Ltd) is continuing for another season, Thatcher’s Cider and philanthropist John Grace join Hal in this capacity.

The Club is grateful to them for their input to our operation and looks forward to working with them in 2012.

The Management Committee meeting that was set for Wednesday 15th February has been put back by one week to Wednesday 22nd February; we will meet at Wellington Playing Field Pavilion at 7.30pm per the agenda that will be sent out to the Management Committee during the week commencing 30th January.

Paul Short was re-elected as our Club and 1st XI Captain at our 2012 AGM held on Tuesday 24th January; a most positive and well paced meeting made all the necessary appointments for the coming season and will be reported on in full in due course.

The first two weeks of our third annual Winter Youth Coaching project have already seen over fifty youngsters in school years four to ten take part in six sessions of training, skills and fitness work under the guidance of our group of qualified and accredited coaching staff.

There are eight more sessions available between Friday 27th January and Friday 23rd March (allowing for a week off for half term on Friday 17th February).

For details contact the Club’s Development Officer Simon Spalding (msspalding@tiscali.co.uk)

We are to take part once again in Cricket Force this season; the project runs from Friday 30th March – Sunday 1st April and will focus on the installation of an access gate with keypad to allow those who wish to come into The Long Hop Bar to enter and depart in an easier fashion than is the case with the current gate arrangements; such a new gate will be built next to the current double ornamental gates.

During last year’s Pavilion renovation a trench was dug and cable was laid to allow for this job to be done and we have selected NWCF 2012 as the time to complete matters; labour will be needed to make this a reality, so a commitment from Club members will be sought soon.

Our Under 11s Manager Mark Salter will be taking the UKCC Level One Coaching Course over the last two weekends in January at SCCC; this will allow us to offer five qualified coaches around the Club (two at Level Two and three at Level One) as we build on the Club Mark accreditation we achieved in 2011.

Focus Club status is also in the Club’s sights in 2012.

We wish Mark every success in his course.

The AGM 2012 pack has been sent for preparation this evening; look out for a six attachment e-mail from David Derrick or Adrian Lee very soon.