Trent Bridge Annual Report 2018

27 COMMUNITY REPORT One of the objectives of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is to use the power of sport to engage our communities and spread passion for our game to all parts of the county. As Nottinghamshire has a population of approximately 800,000 people, 50 times greater than the capacity of Trent Bridge and 100 times greater in number than our membership, we have plenty to do. The above is exactly what the Cricket Development team andTrent Bridge CommunityTrust set out to achieve. Bolstered by our strong partnerships with Nottinghamshire Cricket Board, various local authorities and the ECB to name but a few, we are out there representing the Club and delivering community facing activities that make a difference. To deliver this, the Club deploys a workforce of 25 permanently employed staff, plus numerous volunteers and casual workers.We oversee an investment of £800k annually into the various programmes and activities that help achieve our desired results. Needless to say, the work in this area is wide ranging and covers everything from heritage to recreational cricket, community programmes to county age groups, young people to disability cricket and so on.The following commentary will attempt to report some of the key messages from our work over the last 12 months, but we will always welcome the chance to discuss it with our membership in further detail. It is hopefully unsurprising that a key area of focus for us is the young people of Nottinghamshire. Ultimately, this demographic will be the future players, administrators and supporters of our game and we intend to engage with them early. We have embraced the All Stars programme again this year and increased our number of centres across Nottinghamshire from 24 to 40, consequently increasing the number of five to eight-year-olds attending these sessions from 400 to 1,000. We also remained committed to the Chance to Shine programme within schools, delivering cricket programmes to over 3,000 children across 34 different schools last year. It is therefore pleasing to announce that our new partnership agreement, signed in October 2018 with Chance to Shine, will see our Key StageTwo programme grow next year to deliver sessions to nearly 5,000 children T I M E AT H E R I NG TON COMMUNI TY REPORT CENTRES IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NO. OF FIVE TO EIGHT- YEAR-OLDS ATTENDING 40 1,000 ALL STARS CRICKET