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News 2019
You can find the 2023 Men’s Sunday Fixtures, Stingers Evening Fixtures as well as the Juniors on our website under the Fixtures/Events menu tab. We will add the women’s fixtures as soon as they become available.
2023 Golf Society Days are also available under the top menu tab.
All of the clubs Safeguarding and Code of conduct documents have been refreshed and can be found in our policies folder here:
Policies – Buckhorn Weston Cricket Club (buckhornwestoncc.co.uk)
It is important that all Senior and Youth Club Members, Parents and Volunteers are familiar with these documents, and that they are read when completing your Club Membership form.
Welcome to the 2023 season – it promises to be a busy year with a full fixture card and plenty of social events!
Following much success last season, the adult teams will be forging ahead into 2023. The men continue with a busy programme of mid-week and Sunday fixtures with a sniff of the possibility of building a League team for 2024. The women retain the Softball League trophy and added new silverware by winning the first Dorset 100 Cup. In their first hardball season they came 2nd in the Dorset Super-8s. Onwards and upwards the LBWs are also branching into the Somerset League this year.
All Stars and Dynamos were very successful in 2022 and many a fun Friday evening was had at the Club with 42 children regularly in attendance. Many thanks to a committed coaching and volunteer team for making this such a positive experience for all. This season we are running All-Stars and Junior training where we will be entering both U9 and U11 teams into the Dorset League. Hopefully this year some of the parents will be keen to pick up a bat themselves?
We will be starting a hardball club training evening on Tuesdays this year – watch out for details.
We were awarded an ECB grant for ‘Creating Welcoming Environments’ late into last year which was used to resurface the driveway and buy new picnic benches and seating. This year we hope to achieve further grant support to help Club development.
Thank you to the dedicated and growing Committee who are looking for more ways to raise money to support the club. Along with the VPs and helpful volunteers we are hoping to continue to maintain and build our wonderful Cricket Club.
Look out for lots of exciting events in 2023 from Bingo to Barbeques, a Club Open Day and Cricket aplenty.
Looking forward to the season ahead,
Nicola Lavis
Chairwoman
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BWCC has recently succeeded in obtaining a £10,000 grant from the ECB via the County Grants Fund. This was in connection with a funding stream called ‘Creating Welcoming Environments’, and the Club will be using the funds for two purposes:
- To make a proper entrance roadway in place of the present messy track which is often full of potholes and puddles
- To provide a set of benches and tables to enable visitors to sit in comfort to watch the cricket.
Some words later…
Thanks to Rodney for these memorable photos.
Please click on the links below to see the exciting Junior training we are offering for 5 to 11 year olds this summer at Buckhorn Weston CC
All Stars: https://ecb.clubspark.uk/AllStars/BookCourse/c8646221-fb4e-437d-952a-1b5fa37c56e5
Dynamos: https://ecb.clubspark.uk/Dynamos/BookCourse/b3968f83-11e3-4d4a-8443-957c5b50fd5d
To all BWCC members and players.
Very sadly the ECB has just bowed to the obvious and issued new guidance that all recreational cricket is suspended for the foreseeable future.
Here is a brief summary about how that effects BWCC, but I’m very aware that you will all be far more concerned with the health of family and friends, and worrying too about businesses and jobs.
There will be no AGM as these are exceptional circumstances and I can’t believe that others aren’t in the same boat. The existing Committee will continue and we will have an EGM at the first sensible opportunity.
Cricket – all I have spoken to are in broad agreement that the very earliest that we might see cricket being able to be played again is not until July. Given the further information given out last week concerning the extension of ‘social distancing’ to possibly 6 months (or longer), I’m afraid that we do have to accept the real possibility that we may see no cricket at Buckhorn this season.
The ground – In the hope that cricket might start up again in late summer we will keep the square mown lightly (and probably lightly rolled just to get in reasonably flat) and the outfield kept tidy.
On behalf of the Committee please take the greatest of care and our thoughts with you all.
And let us hope and pray that before the end of the summer the noises of bat on ball, the muffled expletives and laughter as yet another catch goes down, and the happy clink of glasses will be heard again on our lovely ground.
All best, Robin