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Click here to see a list of those YCB-affiliated Clubs who have attained ClubMark |
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Click the link to down load the ECB Club Development Planning Format Focus Clubs are required to complete all 12 core sections. |
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Click here to go to the Document Library, where you will find many helpful documents |
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Club Mark ECB and Sport England working together to help your club get the recognition it deserves. If a club takes the welfare of its junior members seriously and wants to provide a junior section that is recognized as being well organized the ECB ClubMark accreditation scheme is for them. Club Mark has been developed with Sport England to set down a set of criteria and a support process for clubs to work through that will enable them to gain accreditation. ClubMark benefits clubs in a number of ways such as: Support from your CDM and County Cricket Board More importantly the ClubMark logo can be carried on any club literature and promotional materials which confirms their commitment to a safe child friendly junior section which will appeal to: Local Parents Getting your club registered for the ClubMark scheme could not be easier. Just contact your Cricket Development Manager who will be able to send you a very simple and straight forward Registration Form to complete. You will be expected to fulfil specific criteria based around the following areas: Duty of care and child welfare Once registered ECB will send you, via your CDM, the following to help you work towards ClubMark A Cricket Assessment File that outlines the key criteria that need to met and the evidence you need to produce to show you have met the criteria. A CD Resource Pack that gives you much of the information you will need to use to gain ClubMark accreditation such as copies of A Model Club Constitution In addition your CDM and County Sports Partnership will be able to offer you subsidized places on some key training courses aimed at bringing you and your coaches/volunteers up to date with the latest in Child Welfare issues. There are no time limits for the completion of ClubMark accreditation. Every club is different and for some clubs it may take a few months for others it may take longer – the pace is driven by the club. 221 clubs have now registered in Yorkshire. 50 Clubs are now Club Mark Accredited. If a club wants to join the ever growing number of clubs involved in the scheme and gets the credit it deserves for the care it takes of your junior members, contact your local CDM now and get registered. Cricket Development Groups We currently have 24 Cricket Development Groups (3 South Yorks, 5 North Yorks, 4 East Yorks, 7 West Yorks and 5 Women’s). These have all been arranged through the 9 Area Cricket Councils, so that feedback can be given to YCB via YCA Council on a quarterly basis. The Cricket Development Groups are designed to be the “engine room” of development to help clubs with their local needs, make an impact locally, work with schools, Sport’s Colleges, YCB Partner’s and LA’s where everyone can share ideas of good practice. It is a requirement that all Focus Clubs attend their local group; however, all clubs are encouraged to attend. Andrew Watson |
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MODEL CLUB CONSTITUTION …………………………. Cricket Club Constitution 1. Name The name of the Club is (Name) Cricket Club, hereafter to be referred to as "the club" and the club shall be affiliated to the England and Wales Cricket Board through the (name of County) Cricket Board. 2. Aims and Objectives To foster and promote the sport of cricket at all levels within the community and within the sport, providing opportunities for recreation, coaching and competition. To manage the (name of facility). To ensure that all members, playing and non-playing, abide by the ECB Code of Conduct which incorporates the Spirit of Cricket and by the Laws of Cricket. To ensure a duty of care to all members of the club by adopting and implementing the ECB ‘Safe Hands – Cricket’s Policy for Safeguarding Children’ and any future versions of the Policy To ensure a duty of care to all members of the club by adopting and implementing the ECB Cricket Equity Policy and any future versions of the Policy. To encourage all members to participate fully in the activities of the club. 3. Membership (a) Membership of the club shall be open to anyone interested in the sport of cricket on application regardless of sex, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or other beliefs. However, limitation of membership according to available facilities is allowable on a non discriminatory basis. The club may have different classes of membership and subscription on a non discriminatory and fair basis. The club will keep subscriptions at levels that will not pose a significant obstacle to people participating. Application for membership of the club shall be by completion of a membership application form and by payment of the relevant subscription/joining fees as determined by the Annual General Meeting of the club. No person shall be eligible to take part in the business of the club or eligible for selection for any club team unless the appropriate subscription has been paid by the specified date or membership has been agreed by the Committee. The club Committee may refuse membership, or remove it, only for good cause such as conduct or character likely to bring the club or cricket into disrepute. Appeal against refusal or removal may be made to the Committee who shall appoint an Appeals Committee to hear the appeal. All members will be subject to the regulations of the Constitution and by joining the club will be deemed to accept these regulations and any Codes of Conduct that the club has adopted. The Constitution shall identify those members eligible to vote at any General Meetings. 4. Classes of Membership There shall be (number) of classes of membership available. These are:
A list of members in each category shall be maintained by the Treasurer or other Officer of the club. 5. Officers The Officers of the club shall be as follows:
6. Election of Officers All Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the club from, and by, the members of the club. All Officers shall be elected for a period of one year, but shall be eligible for re-election to the same office or to another office the following year. 7. Management Committee The affairs of the club shall be conducted by a Management (General) Committee (the Committee) comprising the Executive Officers of the club and (number) other members elected from, and by, the Full Members of the club. Only these members of the Committee shall be entitled to vote at Committee meetings. The Committee will be convened by the Secretary and shall meet at agreed intervals and not less than four times per year. The quorum required for business to be agreed at Committee meetings shall be (number to be set according to the number of Officers in post). The duties of the Committee shall be:
The Committee shall have powers to appoint sub-committees as necessary and to co-opt advisers who may be non club members invited to advise on specialist subjects. An elected Committee member ceases to be such if he or she ceases to be a member of the club, resigns by written notice, or is removed by the Committee for good cause after the member concerned has been given the chance of putting their case to the Committee. Appeal against removal may be made to the Appeals Committee. The Committee shall fairly decide time limits and formalities for these steps. The Committee has the power to: acquire and provide grounds, equipment, coaching, training and playing facilities, clubhouse, transport, medical and related facilities provide coaching, training, medical treatment, and related social and other facilities take out any insurance for club, employees, contractors, players, guests and third parties raise funds by appeals, subscriptions, loans and charges borrow money and give security for the same, and open bank accounts buy, lease or licence property and sell, let or otherwise dispose of the same make grants and loans and give guarantees and provide other benefits set aside funds for special purposes or as reserves invest funds in any lawful manner employ and engage staff and others and provide services co-operate with or affiliate firstly to any bodies regulating or organising the sport of cricket and secondly any club or body involved with cricket and thirdly with government and related agencies do all other things reasonably necessary to advance the aims and objectives of the club. NONE of the above powers may be used other than to advance the aims and objectives in a manner consistent with the Rules and the general law. 8. General Meetings The Annual General Meeting of the club shall be held not later than the end of (name of month) each year. (21) clear days written notice of the Annual General Meeting shall be given to members by circulating a copy of the notice to every member at their home address and posting the notice on the club notice board. Members must advise the Secretary in writing of any other business to be moved at the Annual General Meeting at least 14 days before a meeting. The Secretary shall circulate or give notice of the agenda for the meeting to members not less than (7/14) days before the meeting. The business of the Annual General Meeting shall be to:
Special General Meetings may be convened by the Committee or on receipt by the Secretary of a request in writing from not less than (number) Full Members of the club. At least 21 days notice of the meeting shall be given. At all General Meetings, the Chair will be taken by the Chair or, in their absence, by a deputy appointed by Full Members attending the meeting. Decisions made at a General Meeting shall be by a simple majority vote from those Full Members attending the meeting. In the event of equal votes, the Chair of the meeting shall be entitled to an additional casting vote. A quorum for a General Meeting shall be (number) Full Members and any other categories of membership entitled to vote (as outlined by the membership section of this Constitution) (usually 25% of the voting membership) and Officers of the Club including at least (1 or 2) from the Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. Each Full Member of the Club shall be entitled to one vote at General Meetings. 9. Alterations to the Constitution Any proposed alterations to the club Constitution may only be considered at an Annual or Special General Meeting, convened with the required written notice of the proposal. Any alteration or amendment must be proposed by a Full Member of the club and seconded by another Full Member. Such alterations shall be passed if supported by not less than two-thirds of those Full Voting Members present at the meeting, assuming that a quorum has been achieved. 10. Finance All club monies shall be banked in an account in the name of the club. The Treasurer shall be responsible for the finances of the club and for providing a report on the financial position as required by the Committee. The Treasurer shall ensure that the club maintains adequate and appropriate insurance to cover the activities of the club. The financial year will end on (date). The Treasurer will present an audited statement of annual accounts at the Annual General Meeting. Any cheques drawn against club funds should hold the signatures of the Treasurer plus up to two Officers. 11. Property and Funds (i) The property and funds of the club cannot be used for the direct or indirect private benefit of members other than as reasonably allowed by the Rules and all surplus income or profits shall be reinvested in the club.
12. Discipline and Appeals All complaints regarding the behaviour of members should be lodged in writing with the Secretary. The Committee shall appoint a Disciplinary sub-committee who will meet to hear complaints within (number of) days of a complaint being lodged. Any member requested to attend a Disciplinary sub-committee shall be entitled to be accompanied by a friend or other representative and to call witnesses. The Committee (or its sub-committee) has the power to take appropriate disciplinary action, including the termination of membership. The outcome of the disciplinary hearing shall be put in writing to the person who lodged the complaint and the member against whom the complaint was made within (number of) days following the hearing. There shall be a right of appeal to the Committee against either the finding or the sanction imposed or both following disciplinary action being taken. The Committee shall appoint an Appeals Committee (a maximum of three) which shall not include members involved with the initial disciplinary hearing but may include non members of the club. The Appeals Committee shall consider the appeal within (number of) days of the Secretary receiving the appeal. The individual submitting the appeal shall be entitled to be accompanied by a friend or other representative and to call witnesses. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall be final and binding on all parties. 13. Dissolution
(Name of club) hereby adopts and accepts this Constitution as a current operating guide regulating the actions of all members. SIGNED (CLUB CHAIRMAN) NAME DATE SIGNED (CLUB SECRETARY) NAME DATE Notes
Details needed to complete the Model Constitution Before you can complete the model you will need to have made decisions on the following matters. It may help you in this process to refer to the accompanying notes. |
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Additional Requirements for clubs seeking Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) status |
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To download a copy of the Model Constitution, click here You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these PDFs. |