OCBCA REPORT 2011

The OCBCA now have 179 members, which has increased significantly over the past 12 months, due to the fact that all new learners attending UKCC coaching courses have an incentive to be a member, as the price of the course is reduced by £50, to obtain not only the insurance but the tremendous benefits provided.

Lesley Pykett, our secretary has been busy compiling the database of coaches so we can provide a reminder when the minimum quality standard of continuing as a coach, such as an ECB CRB, 1^st Aid and Safeguarding Children courses, are due for renewal, so they will never need to be without the relevant cover.

The Association has run Continuous Professional Development (CPD) days including a wicket keeping master class with Jack Russell and an audience with Jack Brooks.

We ran, in conjunction with the county sports partnership, a Howzat workshop for cricket coaches run by the ECB’s Regional Training Manager, Gary Worgan, at their conference in July, although there were only 12 attendees the workshop was incredibly well received.

We have had a recent meeting to discuss amongst other things what do we do for our membership?

Do we need more CPD days and if so what should be included, team building, mental toughness in cricket, psychology in the game, awareness of disability cricket etc.

We also discussed the possibility of running our very own County Cricket Conference, or should we, as we did this year just add our events to the County Sports Partnership conference, if so what should we include, always worthwhile providing a 1^st Aid and SPC course, another refresher on Howzat CPD sessions as mentioned above.

Once you have read this report, if you have any ideas on the above please do contact me on dwoods@oxoncb.com.

One thing we never have enough information on, is how many coaches are actually actively coaching in Oxfordshire and this is something we are looking to find out during 2012.

The Coaching Association now has a separate entry on the OCB website, which means it can concentrate on the above items and not worry about adding things regarding coach education.

With regard to Coach Education I can confirm that we ran two UKCC Level 1 courses and one UKCC level 2 courses during 2011 where we had 30 attendees on the level 1 and 17 on level 2. The pass rate is very high, but some of the learners still have to undertake a 1^st Aid and SPC course or be signed off for their ECB CRB check.

This is one of the largest admin tasks of the Coach Ed dept and although we now include the 1^st Aid and SPC course as a part of the whole course in general i.e. it is included on day one of the course, we are still in their hands to provide all the documentation for their CRB and this can unfortunately be a major stumbling block for some people, they are unable to be certificated until all these pre-requisites are completed.

We are currently looking for a venue to run a UKCC Level 2 course early in 2012 but we are struggling to find a suitable or available venue.

We have just done a major admin task in arranging assessment dates for learners that were either injured or not available for their original assessment and this has led to having several more UKCC Level 2 coaches in the system. This is costing a lot of money, therefore no learner, that is now over 2 years from their course, can be assessed and their papers have been filed accordingly. If they wish to pass, they will have to attend another course and pay the appropriate fee. A system will be introduced to make sure this does not happen in the future.

District development groups will be asked if they would like to host any courses, for example SODDG have organised a Cricket Young Leaders course and along with Chadlington CC, a 1^st Aid and SPC course.

Darryl Woods  OCBCA – Chair

Dec 2011

 

The AGM will be held on Tuesday 21st February at Oxford Downs CC for 7.30pm.

 

If you would like to be involved with the OCBCA please inform our secretary Lesley Pykett at lesleypykett@btinternet.com

 

The Agenda will be shown here at some time in the near future

We have always tried to provide our members with some continous professional development including video analysis evenings, along with an audience with Jack Brooks, Wicket Keeping master class with Jack Russell and something similar by Jon Batty, we have also had Jon Lewis providing tips for our up and coming fast bowlers and coaches.

 

OCBCA, in collobration with the Oxfordshsire Sports Partnership, held individual courses during their Annual Conference held at Cokethrope School, where we had a "How to use your "Howzat" resource class, along with 1st Aid and SPC courses so all our members were able to top up on their Minimum Quality Standards to enable them to be able to continue coaching in their club environment  and beyond in some cases. There was an inspirational opening speech by David Hemery, winner of the 400m hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics, on how he used visualisation in helping him realise his dream of becoming World's Best.

 

We would like you to tell us what CPD courses you would like us to run in the future so any ideas can be passed to our secretary, Lesley Pykett at lesleypykett@btinternet.com. These will be gratefully received.

 

We have also talked about running our own coaching conference, so any ideas in this respect as well would be very much appreciated and if you would like to help us in this process then please do let us know, please use the same contact email above.

 

The OCBCA have increased their committee numbers and the lineup is as follows:

 

Chairman - Darryl Woods

Secretary - Lesley Pykett

Treasurer - Roger Berryman

ECB Regional Rep - Michael Geeson Brown

Committee Member - Beth Lewis

Committee Member - Les Addison 

 

The chair would like to thank all the hard work these volunteers in their help in running this association.