Government announce investment of £35m in grassroots cricket



Durhamfootman said:
widening access into state schools?

sounds like commie talk to me
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I'm not sure that's the right way. I know people have already been into school and not had a lot of interest, also, for Durham the opinion I hear is that it's the clubs that are our region's strength.

I wonder how the money will be distributed. Often Whitehall likes to keep their hands on the purse strings and distribute cash from the centre, however I hope that a large fraction is given to the County Cricket associations or whatever the governing bodies are called, so they can decide what is best for their County.
 
Bri said:
I'm not sure that's the right way. I know people have already been into school and not had a lot of interest, also, for Durham the opinion I hear is that it's the clubs that are our region's strength.

I wonder how the money will be distributed. Often Whitehall likes to keep their hands on the purse strings and distribute cash from the centre, however I hope that a large fraction is given to the County Cricket associations or whatever the governing bodies are called, so they can decide what is best for their County.
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Agree with this. For as long as I can remember there has never really been much cricket in North East schools apart from in select cases where PE teachers or other teachers have been players themselves and ran a few teams.

Chance 2 Shine seemed a good initiative 20 years or so ago where they'd run taster sessions in schools and link kids up with the local feeder club in the area however.
 

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