Grimsby and District Cricket League Handbook 1975

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN GRIMSBY & DISTRICT CRICKET LEAGUE The National Cricket Association, formed ten years ago to co-ordinate and promote cricket at non-first-class levels, has launched a membership drive throughout the country. The target: £50,000 per annum. The chairman of the Cricket Council, F. R. Brown, ·who is also vice– chairman of the NCA announced at Lord's on December 2 that is was hoped that every cricket club member over 18 (playing and non-playing) would pay an annual subscription of 15p, the amounts to be forwarded by each club to its County Cricket Association, who will retain one-third as an affiliation fee. The remaining 10p will be sent to the NCA at Lord's. Currently there are some 20,000 cricket clubs in Britain, of which fewer than half are affiliated to the NCA. The potential revenue is therefore great, and the use to which the funds raised by the new Individual Subscription/Affiliation Scheme, as it is to be called, could be put are reassuring. NCA, carrying a five-figure deficit last year, instead would become a viable organisation, advancing cricket's strength at club and school levels, increasing its coaching activities, and continu ing to provide expert advice on pitches of all kinds. Pilot schemes in Nottinghamshire and Essex have been encouraging, J. D. Williams, treasurer of the Notts CA, has reported that so far 130 of the 270 member clubs in the county have responded, with an average of 19 paid-up members per club. Michael Chapman, Essex CA secretary, said that over £450 has been realised so far - a third of the Essex potential. We are witnessing a kind of tragedy in some areas where cricket is being dropped from school activities. The trend has to be halted, the game reintroduced where it once prospered. The NCA sees its task clearly: to raise the money and reinvest it at the grass-roots levels. For an annual subscription of £1 (from Oct. 1st to Sept. 30th) your club can join the Lincolnshire Cricket Association. The painless method of collecting the 15p is to add it to your club annual subscription and send 15p per member to the Treasurer, W. J. Monteith, 31 Westerdale Road, Scunthorpe. The Hon. Secretary is the Rev. Reginald C. H . Woodward, 104 Harrowby Road, Grantham and he will be able to supply you with the details of the benefits of membership, including an excellent insurance scheme specially arranged for member clubs of NCA. Good luck to you all during the League's 55th season . COLIN KENNEDY Chairman .