Cam Cricket Cub

Cam CC is a well established village club serving a population of about 15,000. We run five senior men's teams and one senior women's team. Cam has recently been reawarded Focus Club status in addition to Clubmark status (Clubmark is the ECB's national accreditation and is used to create a benchmark for high quality community club cricket). We are based at Cam Sports Club and also play at Dursley Rugby Club (Stinchcombe). We are proud of the 10 young Cam cricketers who have represented Gloucestershire in the last five years, but we believe that we have a particularly positive record of improving participation in grass roots cricket. Our Women's Cricket Section, formed in 1989, has a strong committee and through the development of girls in our Youth Section, as well as the introduction of adults to a new sport, has proved to be sustainable when other women's cricket sections have struggled. It has been fully supportive of the development of Women's League Cricket and representative women's cricket in Gloucestershire. Our Youth Cricket Section has grown significantly over 10 years so that we now provide cricket coaching and competitive fixtures for over 220 young cricketers from U7 to U17 in 18 different teams; seven in the Stroud District League; one in the Bristol League and three in the new County Longer Leagues. Our youngest cricketers and Chance to Shine Girls play in friendly festivals.We have strong links with local schools - organising Chance to Shine coaching in 8 different Primary Schools this year and two Cricket Young Leaders' Courses at our local secondary school - Rednock. The Chance to Shine programme has been particularly successful - introducing 50 girls to the club last season. We host five Kwik Cricket tournaments; two for the GCB; two for the local Primary Schools Sports Association and one for Stroud District clubs. We have successfully included young cricketers with disabilities and special educational needs (hemiplegia, hearing impairment and learning difficulties.)