Sussex Cricket Board funding

1. The Cricket Foundation Awards to each of the 38 County Boards. Substantial funding allocated from the First Class game. It is a Charitable Trust whose resources are distributed by trustees in away to best ensure the widest possible development of the game. As such it funds three key areas:

The organisation or provision of facilities, which will enable and encourage young persons to play cricket.
Young persons at schools and universities.
The organisation or provision of facilities for persons who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty of social and economic circumstance.

2. The main activities covered are:

The work of cricket development officers.
County representative matches and coaching.
Club and school activities.
Fees for courses, particularly coaching and groundsmanship.

3. The total funding amounts to over £2.6 million of which the Sussex Board receives just over £90,000 (the largest Award), which is distributed as follows:

£38,000 for Cricket Development officers.
£15,000 for County Squad coaching.
£5,000 for County Youth match expenses.
£3,300 for District Cricket development programme.
£5,300 for cricket clubs, mainly for youth coaching costs.
£3,750 for cricket at Secondary schools.
£13,225 for cricket in Primary schools.
£6,500 for adult coaching qualification courses.
£1,500 for umpires and scorers courses.
£500 for groundsmanship courses.

This represents some 30 per cent of total expenditure on the Board's activities in these sectors. The other main contributors are:

Sussex County Cricket Club      £ 90,000
Sponsors                        £ 50,000
Participants on courses etc     £ 45,000
In total expenditure of nearly  £300,000