Wanstead and Snaresbrook Cricket Club

Join the Drive Thru Drop Off – 17^th / 18^th October 11am-2pm Club Car Park

The Corner House Project are organizing an appeal to help the homeless – see below. Please look at the list, have a think and see what you may be able to do. Also what would be very helpful is if anyone could donate old rucksacks. We all know what this pandemic is doing, no one could predict how devastating this has been for many. People in our communities need our support. Looking forward to seeing you at the Drive Thru – from a distance of course! THANK YOU

What a great, albeit short season.

The club had a very successful cricket season with the 1^st XI, 2^nd XI and 5^th XI winning their Leagues and the 3^rd XI finishing runners-up by one point! Both the 1^st XI and 2^nd XI went through the League season undefeated.

The U19s won the Essex U19 T20 Competition and the U12s the Brian Taylor Trophy with a last ball victory!

Well done everyone - players, captains, managers, coaches, supporters!



Successful U19 Squad

With the cricket season over, the bar will be open on Friday evenings from 5.30pm, with last orders at 9.30pm as the premises must be vacated by 10pm, and on Sundays from 12pm to 6pm.

Members must observe the following:

• Please stay in your group of up to 6 people (unless you are a household or support bubble which is larger than 6).
• On arrival please can one of your party either check in using evePASS or inform the bar staff of your name, contact phone number and the number of people in the group.
• Please do not enter the bar lounge unless invited by bar staff.
• Please do not approach the bar for service, a member of the bar staff will take your order from the table and bring your drinks to you.
• Please wear a face covering except when seated at a table.
• Please avoid interaction with other groups.

In the event of inclement weather, the bar lounge and hall will be open, but the following procedures will apply:

• The bar lounge and hall will be table service ONLY; upon arrival please wait to be seated by a member of the bar staff. Please do not sit down before being seated, as any table will need to cleaned before the next member/s sit down.
• Maximum of 6 people per table.
• Please do not approach the bar for service.
• Please wear a face covering except when seated at a table
• Please do your best not to walk around the indoor areas and move between tables and DO NOT move any furniture as it will be organised to ensure social distancing.
• Please keep your distance from other people, who are not in your group of 6
• To help with space indoors, could we kindly request that, while dogs are welcome, they do not enter the bar or hall and are kept on a lead while outside.

It is critical that everybody continues to observe the following key behaviours:

• If you feel unwell, please DO NOT visit the club
• Please bring your own hand sanitiser and also continue to use the hand sanitisers at the club. Also wash your hands regularly for at least 20 seconds.
• When playing, training or socialising outside, please continue to maintain social distance of 2 metres from anyone NOT in your household or support bubble.

It is important that we stay alert and keep safe.

From 18 September, the club is legally required to have a system to collect Track & Trace data, and to ask members to provide these details when they visit the club. We are required to retain these details for 21 days, and to ensure that the gatherings’ limit of 6 is not exceeded.

We will be using the evePASS system, so please could members download the evePass App ( evePASS ) on your ‘phones and register.  Then on arrival at the club all you have to do is scan the QR code by the main doors.

Otherwise, one of your party will have to inform the bar staff of your name, contact phone number and the number of people in the group.

Thank you for your cooperation.

On Tuesday, 11^th August, the Slow Coaches, led by Joe Palmer Snr played a game against a team of NHS doctors and administrators – the match ending in a tie! During the game Martin presented a cheque for £2,610 to Dr Philip Bennett-Richards. This was the money raised for NHS Charities when we held the Virtual Race Night during lockdown. Thanks again to members for their generosity.

This week Stuart Phillips, Head of Junior Cricket at Wanstead & Snaresbrook Cricket Club, interviews Nav Dwivedi one our young first team players.

We will look to post a new video here every week and you can find this and previous videos on the Wanstead Cricket Club YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3S5FpHkjTzJTlNNtgvalpA
or on our website here.

Please feel free to provide feedback on the videos via your team manager or Stuart.

Dear Cricket Friends,

Last weekend was to have been the opening weekend of the season. Our club is sadly closed. We are only too aware that many of our members and their families are key workers, a number working for the NHS, some in Intensive Care wards directly with seriously ill CoVid-19 patients. It is a small thing, but as a note of sincere thanks and recognition to all of them and everyone else working in the NHS, we have changed our logo. We will change it back when the season starts.

 #SupportTheNHS #StayHomeSaveLives 

We would like to thank Forest School and T-Space Architects for their sponsorship of boundary boards at Overton Drive. It is great to have more local businesses supporting us.
T-Space are excellent local architects with all sorts of high class domestic remodelling and new build credentials.

Congratulations to the following junior members for being selected to receive Jack Petchey Awards for the period September to November 2019. 

Hassan-Ali Iqbal               Age 15

Krishan Arawwawala         Age 16

Anjali Mistry                     Age 12

We are grateful for the generous support the Jack Petchey Foundation provides to us and the local community. 

Members can pick up their membership cards any Sunday afternoon from Lynn.

Management Committee Minutes

Minutes from the 9th December 2019 management committee meeting here and the March 2019 AGM here.

We are delighted to announce that Keatons, the local estate agents, have agreed to be lead sponsors of the club for another 4 years. We are immensely grateful for their generous support of the club.

If you are thinking of buying, selling or renting a property then make sure you contact their Wanstead office (020 3728 7788) and tell them that you are member of the club.

A selection of photos of the amazing tour to Sri Lanka.
http://wanstead.secure-club.com/gallery/galleryid_18836/srilankatour2018.aspx

Fantastic news, the club has received ECB Clubmark accreditation for another 3 years.

ECB Clubmark is an accreditation scheme for cricket clubs and shows that a club is sustainable, well run and provides the right environment for its members. Clubmark accreditation also means your club is recognised as a safe, rewarding and fulfilling place for participants of all ages, as well as assuring parents and carers that they are choosing the right option for their young people.

To obtain accreditation, clubs are asked to provide evidence that they meet a series of criteria. This is done by loading evidence onto an online portal and by demonstrating good practice at a site visit conducted by an allocated Club Support Officer. Special thanks must go to Trevor Hebden who put in over 200 hours of work on this!

    

A committee under the chairmanship of Matloob Piracha and Len Enoch has prepared a report following a comprehensive members’ survey.  I would like to thank them for all their hard work. Click on the link below to read the report.

By most measures your club has achieved a high level of success over many years. Its progress in adult, women and junior cricket and its exciting community initiatives are widely admired; Wanstead is widely regarded as one of the best cricket clubs in the country.

So what areas can be improved, what steps are necessary to meet the changing environment for recreational cricket. Where do we go from here?

I hope you enjoy reading the report. Matloob, Len or I will do our best to answer any queries you have,

Martin Pluck, Chairman 

Wanstead CC 2018-22 Development Plan.pdf

 

New data protection legislation came into force on 25th May 2018, which regulates the use of personal data stored. The personal information that members provide to the club will be held electronically and used solely for club activities. This may be shared with team managers, team captains in adult sides and Club Officers to manage members’ registration and participation in games as well as notifying you of club events. A member’s name may appear on the club website as part of managing fixtures and reporting results. Members’ data may be disclosed to other cricket authorities, as necessary, for cricket purposes only. Members have the right to see what data the club has recorded about them, can ask for any incorrect or incomplete data to be corrected or can request that personal data be removed. They can also opt out of receiving information from the club by email, telephone or SMS.

 

Dear Sir / Madam

In recent months we have been made aware of and seen a number of emails, texts, what's app messages and other social media messages which have been sent to numerous people involved in cricket in the county and are potentially detrimental to individuals and the game.   

We would like to remind you that if you receive any communication that you think may be inappropriate, please do not respond to it but instead forward it or report it to the county welfare officer Phil Knappett at safeguarding@essexcricket.org.uk.

If you feel threatened by any of the communications or in any other way or situation, then please contact the Police on 101 or if the threat feels immediate then ring 999. Please then follow this up to safeguarding@essexcricket.org.uk too.

If you have any further comments or concerns again please contact safeguarding in the first instance.

Regards,

Phil Knappett,

Essex Cricket County Welfare Officer

 

Club Welfare Policy and Practice

You are likely to be aware of recent adverse press coverage on child abuse in sport. At our recent Management Committee meeting I was instructed to reassure you that we have always and will always follow 'best practice' by adopting or exceeding  recommended guidelines. These requirements cover all aspects of the club including the football section.

Full details of policy and practice are contained in the club's Conduct and Child Protestation Policy which is available on our website, www.wanstead.hitscricket.com (follow left hand links via 'Junior Information').

The following summary may help to explain how we address this responsibility:
   - Welfare is the responsibility of the Management Committee which is required to approve policy and to appoint a Welfare Officer, who is a full committee member, with authority to manage all welfare issues and report to Committee members
    - Policy reflects the requirements of the relevant sporting bodies and practical issues such as safety, use of dressing room facilities, cameras and social media. Policy is continually reviewed and regularly updated on the advice of the Welfare Officer.
   - As well as approving policy updates the Management Committee is required to approve membership of a Panel of members recommended by the Welfare Officer to support the welfare process. These Panel members are the 'eyes and ears' of the Welfare Officer  through high availability presence (for example Lynn Rising who serves in the club house during busy junior events and Adnan Akram and Martin Pluck, who provide an important link in the introduction of juniors to adult cricket, are panel members). Some panel members have specific responsibilities, for example in ensuring compliance of volunteer police checks and attending safeguarding and first aid courses and monitoring policy and best practice developments.

Our current Welfare Officer is Trevor Hebden who is highly approachable. Trevor can be contacted in confidence on O7957 620075. As your club Chairman I am also available. Should you feel the need to contact me, my number is O7747 118790.

We want to maintain a safe environment for all members to enjoy their sport. We were one of the first clubs to obtain Clubmark, the sport accreditation scheme for community sports clubs, and we continue to recognize the importance of safe welfare practice.

Best wishes,

Martin Pluck, Chairman,  on behalf of the Management Committee, 1^st December 2016

Did you know that whenever you buy anything online - from your weekly shop to your annual holiday - you could be collecting free donations for the club?

So go to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/wandscc/ and join for free.

For more details click on Easy Fundraising.pdf