Chance to Shine
Chance to Shine – Chance to Shine is a national charity, which aims to inspire schools and communities through cricket.
The Nottinghamshire Cricket Board’s Chance to Shine programme has been running since 2005 and has worked in partnership with district groups, local clubs, and community coaches to teach both curriculum and ex-curriculum sessions to Nottinghamshire children.
Nationally the programme aims to educate a further 1 million children over the next five years.
Coaches aim to develop the knowledge and skill base of teachers through regular contact during the programme’s sessions all year round.
Also, satellite clubs have been set up by the Chance to Shine programme and competitions are organised within the school calendar giving young people the opportunity to play both competitive and non-competitive cricket.
Following the new strategy for cricket ECB’s “Cricket Unleashed” the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board has chosen to realign the delivery of Chance to Shine activity across Nottinghamshire, to ensure the effective transition and retention of participants of all ages to local offers including cricket clubs, Street & Wicketz projects across Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire.
A number of key changes have been made;
Stephen Campbell- Cricket Development Officer- Young People, Stephen becomes the designated officer related to the NCB’s primary & secondary school programmes, as well as the soon to be launched ECB “National 5+ Programme”.
New Approach:
As of September 2016, four (NCB) community coaches have taken up regional roles across eight districts with the specific task of working with Primary, Secondary & SEND (Special Educational Needs & Disability) schools in these regions strengthening relationships between schools and cricket clubs/community groups.
Chris Revill- Ashfield & Mansfield
Gareth Isaac- Broxtowe & Rushcliffe
Patrick Gada - Gedling & City
Tim Ward- Bassetlaw & Newark and Sherwood
Through working across these districts we wish to aim for a higher transition and retention of players and ensuring that they have an appropriate offer available to them.
Community Hub Clubs: Aligning to the ECB’s strategy for “Casual” cricket community hub clubs are to be set up across all districts, to bridge the gap between school participation and local cricket clubs, and as a sole offer for areas where a cricket club does not exist. By involving key stakeholders such as parents, school teachers, club coaches, professional staff. An example of this in action already would be our street project in Nottingham City. (Please see link below)
http://nottstv.com/nottinghamshire-cricket-samit-patel-aim-get-notts-young-people-game/
In 2016, the NCB piloted this model across Nottinghamshire with specific girl’s hub clubs, ran a local cricket clubs with huge success with transitioning 80 females to a female specific offer.
These hub clubs are not designed to replace offers at local cricket clubs but to aid the transition of players directly from schools to develop fundamental skills prior to being fully transitioned to a cricket club.