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Dear All
Please find below your weekly ECB messaging update, including information regarding Spacehive, the Cricket-Tea-A-Thon and the Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy.
ECB STEP 4 RETURN TO CRICKET GUIDANCE REMINDER TO ALL PARTICIPANTS
Ahead of this weekend, please find below a reminder of the key requirements when playing cricket in England.
On 4th August, the club held their 7th food bank collection this summer. They have collected an outstanding 670 kg of food across 1,145 items - equivalent to 155 shopping bags, all which has been donated to the Barking Trussell Trust food bank. This food bank has been desperately short of tinned meat, washing up liquid, jam and Halal-certified long life food to name a few items. The Barking food bank has described the support received from Barking CC and its volunteers as ‘absolutely phenomenal’ demonstrating the positive impact cricket can make to its local community.
If your club wishes to do something similar and help the most vulnerable in your local community, you can register here to become a Trussell Trust food collection point and get involved in the nationwide Cricket Tea-A-Thon campaign.
Once registered, you will receive a resource pack to help you set up your collection point, including a list of the right foods to collect, help promoting donation to their networks and information where your local Trussell Trust food bank is located. Also included are useful resources such as a poster, social media assets and example posts.
We’d love to shine a light on other clubs and community groups who are making an amazing difference to support food donation, if you would like to share one of your stories with us, please email the team here
The eight regions will be split into two regionalised groups of four, with the two respective group winners progressing to play each other in a final. The venue for the final will be the home of the best-performing team in the group stages.
Fixture dates for the trophy will be announced tomorrow, alongside fixtures for the men’s Vitality Blast. For more information on teams, who's playing, fixtures and why it's been given its name, click here.
COMING UP OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS
Following the update on the County Board call earlier this week, a reminder of some of the things for your radar over the coming weeks.
Volunteer Survey
Following CCB consultations with Rockcorps, we will be sharing a link to our Volunteer Survey next week. This provides a great opportunity to help shape the ECB response to the Volunteer strategy and we would greatly appreciate your support in completing the survey.
Cricket Playing Survey
As with previous years, we will be sharing the Cricket Playing Survey the week commencing 24 August. Given the challenges and changes in player behaviour during COVID-19, this year this survey will be more important than ever. It will look back on the height of the COVID-19 period and focus on the response to the return of cricket as well.
England & Wales Cricket Board
14 August 2020