Herts and Essex Volunteers celebrate achievements...
Hertfordshire Cricket held its OSCAs celebration event on Tuesday 1st September in partnership with Essex Cricket to reward it’s volunteers for all the work that they put in supporting cricket in the county.
The event, held at Essex County Cricket Club’s LV County Championship fixture with Northants was attended by 100 people In the pavilion marquee and included a buffet lunch and tea as well as day out at the cricket.
NatWest OSCAs aim to reward the contribution that these volunteers make to the game. We welcome nominations for volunteers from the traditional cricketing environments (clubs, leagues, boards) but in addition to this, we would like to recognise volunteers from emerging environments such as Higher and Further Education, Community Programmes, Workplaces and Recreational Park Leagues.
Hertfordshire’s nominations came in 7 categories, Get the Game On, Leagues and Boards, Lifetime Achiever & Officiating: Umpires and Scorers, Heartbeat of the Club, Young Volunteer and NatWest Cricketforce.
Our winners (who will attend the national OSCAs event at Lords on Monday 12th October) were: -
Officiating: Umpires and Scorers – Neil Stanton(St Margaretsbury CC)
Leagues and Boards – Tony Johnson (Saracens Hertfordshire Premier Cricket League)
Young Volunteer – Adam Mason & Tom Cowan (Stevenage CC & Nobel School)
Get The Game On – Rob Stone (Hertingfordbury CC)
Heartbeat Of The Club – Paul Sands (St Albans CC)
Lifetime Achiever – Malcolm Durrant (Chipperfield Clarendon CC)
NatWest Cricketforce – James Godbold (Hatfield Hyde CC)
Congratulations to our winners and also a special mention to those who were also nominated for the fantastic work that they do.
More photos will be available soon via our facebook page