Nottingham Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation Hub
School allows use of facility and has a big involvement which has has been pivotal in providing young people from the community to not only have access to high quality facilities, but also gives our young players a taste of the High School as along with the other coaches.
The MCCF launched the coaching program aimed at State educated players from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds across the UK to address the decline of talented children from state schools progressing into club cricket and representing county sides.
The Nottingham Hub coaching staff have no doubt that the Nottingham High School’s involvement has enabled the players to excel further.
Aims
The Aim is to continue to support the NMCCF Hub as it flourishes. Recently we have had request to use the facilities more as the demand for the hub has grown in numbers.
The need to increase hours of access to the schools facilities to cater for the additional numbers.
The success criterias are the number of people who benefit from this relationship & the shared success of introducing and inspiring young people into the lifelong relationship with sport and all the health and well-being benefits.
Background
The Nottingham Hub is part of 74 other MCCF Hubs across the United Kingdom (UK) overseen by the Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation (MCCF) from Lords Cricket Ground in London.
In 2011, the MCCF launched the coaching program aimed at State educated players from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds across the UK to address the decline of talented children from state schools progressing into club cricket and representing county sides. This decline is completely reflected in the make-up of the England men’s cricket team, 65% of whom come from the independent schooling sector, despite this educating only (5% - 7%) of the population. There is also a great need to grow girls’ cricket in State schools and the MCCF Hub seeks to help in this regard and hopefully grow from strength to strength.
The Nottingham MCCF Hub based at Nottingham High School (NHS) started in 2016 with roaring success and has built year on year. It was greatly supported in its formation by the local independent/public school Nottingham High School and the NHS Director of Cricket.
Resources
Access to full schools sports facilities inc:
Indoor cricket nets and gym.
Outdoor nets and Cricket pitches.
Impact
24 (U13 boys), 24 (U15 boys) and between 8 – 16 girls (U12 – U15).
Impact is far greater than just the number of athletes involved. It is inspirational and as mentioned in background notes, for some of these young people life changing and enables them new pathways for social mobility.
Pupil Involvement
24 (U13 boys), 24 (U15 boys) and between 8 – 16 girls (U12 – U15).
This number is growing each year.
Frequency
Ongoing event with Weekly training which runs to the normal cricket calendar.
It will continue indefinitely.