County Grants Fund

We are delighted to announce that the ECB County Grants Fund open to affiliated clubs on the 1st February 2024.

Eligibility criteria in respect of the County Grants Fund is as follows.  

  • Creating Welcoming Environments – open to ECB affiliated Cricket Clubs registered for All Stars or Dynamos in 2024, or actively involved with Women’s and Girls’ Cricket and / or Disability Cricket. It is an expectation that any junior programme will include and actively engage with girls.  
  • Providing Enhanced Facilities and Playing Opportunities for Women’s and Girls’ Cricket and / or Disability Cricket – open to ECB affiliated Cricket Clubs actively engaged in competitive female only cricket and/or disability cricket.  
  • Tackling Climate Change – open to any ECB affiliated Cricket Clubs.

You can read a lot more information about these three themes within the attached guidance notes:

Creating an application - Clubs 2024

County Grants Fund Guidance - Clubs 2024

Creating Welcoming Environments Guide

All clubs in reciept of a County Grants Fund award in 2024 will be expected to sign up to a Service level Agreement with Cornwall Cricket Board, this SLA will remain in plae for a period of three years. 

To assist clubs in assessing where they may need to improve their facilities to make them more welcoming and inclusive, the ECB has developed a couple of self-assessment documents.

ECB Facilities Review Checklist

ECB Facilities Survey

HOW WILL THE COUNTY GRANTS FUND BE MANAGED?

All clubs who wish to apply should complete our Expression of Interest EOI within the ECB Investment Management System (IMS) portal. The link to complete this is here

There are a few key points we would like to make to clubs at this stage:

  1. Prioritising – Only applications from club's that are actively engaged with one or more ECB programmes: All Stars, Dynamos, or Women’s and Girls’ Cricket and Disability Cricket will be considered.
  2. Local management – The County Grants Fund will be administered locally, with an Independent Review Panel for award decisions.
  3. Scale of support – The County Grants Fund is provided by the ECB and has set the priority for supporting the recreational game and the ambitions of it's Inspiring Generations Strategy. There are positive levels of investment attributed to the fund for Cornwall. However, there are still finite levels of funding available to us in year one which is why we must work closely with cricket clubs to identify appropriate projects which deliver strong outcomes.

If your club has any questions please feel free to ask, please contact: