Attachments:

Playing Plan Summary April 2021
ECB Covid-19 Roadmap April 2021
Junior Membership Form
Youth Section Guidelines
Safe Hands Policy Statement
Code of Conduct for Parents and Carers
Code of Conduct for Young People

Dear all,

YOUTH SECTION – SUMMER SEASON 2021

We hope you are all well and eager for the start of summer training. I appreciate its been a tough 12 months and we are all ready to try and get back to something like normality. The ECB have published their roadmap for cricket to restart and its really important that we stick to the rules as we come out of lockdown and follow the ECB guidance. I enclose details of the playing plan summary which explains the measures we all should take, please take time to read this document. The roadmap is also attached for further information.

With Covid restrictions still in place we thought it better if all registrations & payments could be completed on-line so there will be no registration evening this year.

A registration form is attached but it will help us enormously if you could register using the online Google form available online here is the link and pay via the PayPal ‘Make Payments’ section on the payments link on the home page of the Attenborough CC website https://www.attenborough-cc.org/product/junior-playing-subs/ Forms can be handed in with payments at training if you are not able to do it online.

Our Safe Hands Policy, Club Codes of Conduct are also attached.

The junior membership fee for 2021 is £50 ( which is the same as the last few years ) to cover the 19 weeks of training. We continue to offer a discount for any siblings so a 2nd child’s junior membership is £35 and £25 for any further children registered e.g. if you register two players then the total fee is £85. There is no extra charge for junior matches in any age group. These options are all available on the website under the ‘payments’ link, the 3 options being ( Junior Playing, Two Juniors & Three Juniors ).

Parents who receive income support, income-based jobseekers allowance, working tax credit (but not child tax credit) or disabled persons tax credit may contact Carl Knight in confidence to discuss financial assistance.

Spring / Summer Outdoor Training

Outdoor sessions will be held at The Strand from Friday 16th April through to the final session on Friday 20th August for all age groups u14 and below ( Mike Dickinson will be contacting parents re the u15’s who will train on a Tuesday night with the adults start date (TBC ). There will be staggered times for the hardball training so please ensure you come at the correct time and arrive no sooner than 10 mins before your start time.

U14’s – 6.45 – 8.00
u13’s – 6.00 – 7.15
u12’s – 6.00 – 7.15
U11’s – 5.30 – 6.45
u10’s – 5.30 – 6.45
Kwik cricket – 6.30-8.00

In the event of adverse weather, we will post a message on the junior club website https://www.attenborough-cc.org/junior-cricket/ by 5.00pm on training night. Please check the website before setting off if in any doubt.

2021 Junior Teams

This year we will be fielding the following teams ( + coaches ):

Under 15s (Year 10) – Mike Dickinson
Under 14s (Year 9) – Mark Robinson & Brendan Ryan
Under 13s (Year 8) – Gary Bacon
Under 12’s (Year 7 ) – Andy Crofts
Under 11s (Year 6 ) – Arjun Sandhu
Under 10s (Year 5 ) – Tim Sanders

Kwik Cricket (years 3 to 5) – Barrie Humphriss & Carl Knight

All stars cricket – Carl Knight, Barrie Humphriss & Sam Randall

Hardball fixtures will be posted on both the Calendar page of our main website ( https://www.attenborough-cc.org/whats-on-acc/) and on the Club’s Play Cricket website ( attenborough.play-cricket.com ) as soon as they are released. Players selected for matches will be contacted by the relevant team coaches

Three Kwik teams have been entered into the Sunday morning league with teams from Bramcote & Wollaton. Times / dates are still TBC. A further email will be sent to all kwiks after registration asking for availability for the first few Sundays as in previous seasons.

Please note that we are running an All Stars group again this year ( school years 1-3 ) starting from 21 May registration is via the ECB website, https://ecb.clubspark.uk/AllStars/SearchResults?dm_i=5ZQF,6KD2,FPZ5E,RD62,1 , you will need to choose Attenborough as the club. Details will also be in the junior section on the clubs website, please contact Carl Knight if you have any queries regarding which group to sign up for i.e. All Stars or Kwik cricket groups.

In addition we are running Dynamos cricket for girls aged 8-12 on a Tuesday starting from 18 May which is open to girls of all abilities and is a new initiative launched by the ECB, registration is again via the ECB website, https://ecb.clubspark.uk/AllStars/SearchResults?dm_i=5ZQF,6KD2,FPZ5E,RD62,1 , you will need to choose Attenborough as the club.

Presentation Evening

Our presentation evening will be held early September date tbc at The Strand.

We hope this will be a great opportunity to get together and reflect on a successful season. Further details to follow.

And finally

Attenborough Youth Section pride themselves on their junior members and the way they behave, both at training and during matches against other clubs. We strongly encourage our junior members to wear white cricket clothing whilst training and representing Attenborough CC and we hope parents will support us on this.

Please feel free to forward this email to family and friends as new players are always welcome.

thanks & stay safe

Carl & the coaching team

carlknight29@aol.com – 07397761268