Gloucestershire Cricket Board Strategic Plans
Strategic Plans
The Gloucestershire Cricket Board receives a large amount of its funding from the ECB. To receive this funding annually the County Board must ensure that they meet targets set by the ECB but also targets that the Board sets itself and that are approved by the ECB Regional Development Manager
Annually in and around September the County Board has to complete and compile its results for the last 12months activity – this is called the Improvement Planning Process (IPP). This work consists of stating where you are at the start of a year, across several work areas, and where you aim to be at the end of the year – October 1st and end 30th September.
County Board Improvement Planning Process – A Summary November 2010
The County Board Improvement Planning Process (CBIPP) is used by the ECB to measure the achievements of each County Board against set targets and GCB’s core funding is based on meeting these. The completed returns for Gloucestershire have been posted on the website at www.gloucestershirecricketboard.com/etc.,etc. – Quantitative for 2009/10 and 2010/11 and Qualitative for 2010/11 - and they provide detailed evidence of the progress made by the Board.
If you wish to gain a more detailed picture of the work and achievements of the GCB please examine them after reading this summary.
The completion of the Development Plans by the Focus Clubs also play a key part in the achievement of the performance related funding and the Board is grateful to the people who have worked so hard to complete these by the deadline date of October 31st.
If you examine the statistical returns you will appreciate the wide range of responsibilities entrusted to Boards and the number of clubs, schools and organisations involved – and thus the number of people involved.
The Directors of GCB Ltd are especially pleased to record their thanks to Steve Silk, his hard working full-time team – Lisa Pagett, Ross Farrer, Adam Jones, Chris Munden and Eric Woodmason – and the skilled army of volunteers for their hard work over the last two years. This superb effort, led and managed by Steve, has transformed the Board from under-achievement to high achievement. These returns are used by the ECB to secure funding and make fresh demands on Boards each year; Indoor Cricket and Last Man Stands (www.lastmanstands.com) are new this year as are specific returns in other areas of activity. These will place increased pressures on the GCB as funding is reduced in the current climate, and make it essential for work to be carefully prioritised.
The Qualitative element enables the GCB to identify its main areas for improvement. This year the concentration is on the following four areas:-
1 GCB Coaches Association (GCBCA) - The GCB is now in a position to make this the priority for at least 18 months because coaching and coach education are central to all aspects of the Board’s work and it needs a GCBCA ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver this complex and ever changing area of work. A clear timeline is produced in the main document and it is hoped that all coaches will become actively involved in the Association. If you are a coach, or want to become one, please look carefully at this section of the IPP.
2 Communications - The website is a start but the GCB intends to use a variety of methods to improve this area and to publicise its work e.g. newsletters and press releases as well as the regularly updated website. A key action for 2010/11 is for the Board to use the associated club database that is maintained with the help of the various Leagues and District Associations.
3 Skilled Workforce - The full-time workforce of six needs and deserves full opportunities for personal staff development. Staff contracts and appraisal have been formalised through Head Office, a successful Colour Works training day took place in October and the Directors are investigating becoming the first County Board to gain accreditation through Investors in People.
4 External Funding - This is clearly a priority in the current economic circumstances and the aim is to be able to finance the current levels of staffing in order to ensure that the progress made by the GCB continues.
GCB Ltd has achieved real success and intends to build on this over the coming months when it is inevitable that challenges, especially financial, will have to be met and overcome.
Please continue to give your support and thank you for all your work on behalf of cricket in Gloucestershire.
GCB Ltd Agreed Quantitative Targets 2010/2011
As well as the Quantitative side to the ECB’s assessment on the County Board, there is also place for a Qualitative Assessment and this comes in the form of an Annual Improvement Action Plan. What this plan consists of is initially very much down to the 3 Development Groups and the GCB Development Forum, prioritising work that is going to greatly improve Cricket in Gloucestershire. Please see below the current action plan 2010/2011 and 2009/2010:
GCB Ltd One Year Action Plan 2010/2011
GCB One Year Action Plan2009/2010
GCB Development Plan
For 2010/2011 it has already been agreed that as well as the above documents and strategic papers the Board will begin work on a Long Term Development Plan for all areas of Cricket. This will of course be supported by the Annual plans but will go into a lot more detail of what the County is trying to achieve and when it hopes to have it done by.
The Board recognises that to make significant improvements to the current practices investment in our work is required and the Board believes a Development Plan will show future sponsors clearly the aims and ambitions of the Board and what their investment will be going towards.
Other national documents that may be of interest: