Well, what can we say about the past 12 months except, good riddance!

The committee has been working hard throughout and during last season. We were delighted that we still managed to get a good amount of cricket played and enjoy our wonderful surroundings, we managed to provide 14 weeks of youth training compared with a normal year of 16-18, the restriction on small groups also meant a far greater coaching content for all.

We would like to thank our sponsors, BluePrint Properties and Neo as well as our members for their support of the club over the last year. The membership income and contributions to the club at a time when we were not able to play cricket, hold training sessions or open the bar played a vital part in ensuring that there still was a club in 2021.

As an amateur sports club we rely on and bar takings as our main sources of income and both were greatly reduced throughout last season and again during the off season, with no outside hire opportunities. Fortunately, we are still afloat and have managed to ensure our investment in the facilities and playing surfaces can continue, after all this is what we all want to enjoy our sport.

We are hopeful that this season even if not quite normal is likely to at least be a full season, therefore we hope to begin building our reserves again as we start to enjoy bar takings again. However, we would appeal to you all to pay your subscriptions in full as soon as possible for the season ahead and actively support all social opportunities to build our club again. As always for any members that have been financially impacted by Covid or any other circumstance, our commitment as normal is to ensure no one is deprived of cricket due to financial hardship so please just ask us if you require help.

We have been busy over the winter making the necessary plans to ensure the improvements to our youth coaching structure are continued and improved again.

We will continue to have strong coaches leading our sessions supported by our support team and we are delighted that Cath Dalton will continue to lead the Girls and Ladies training and will also lead the boys coaching for the 1st part of the summer until the boys from Tredgett Coaching (Alex and Cam) return from Loughborough and take over from Cath allowing her to focus on her extensive playing and coaching commitments outside of Hutton CC. All those that attended last summer’s camps ran by Alex and Cam will know they are in good hands this season.

The team will also be leading masterclass sessions for groups each week that we are very pleased to announce.

(Our coaching season will run from week commencing 19th April until 23rd August)

We will continue to offer All Stars and this season will also introduce Dynamos, which is the ECBs latest initiative. Both can be signed up directly with the ECB using the direct sign up link below.
All Stars: http://bit.ly/HuttonAllStars
Dynamos: http://bit.ly/HCCDynamos

Please note – parents / carers are expected to remain on site for the duration of Friday coaching sessions

We will continue to use the online booking system for coaching sessions. It is important that you book your child into the session by the Wednesday of the current coaching week, to enable us to maintain our excellent coach / player ratios and ensure players are allocated to their most appropriate training group. Links are below:

As usual we will enter as many competitions and leagues as possible in order to provide competitive cricket for our youth section. However, whilst membership covers club membership, facilities and coaching nights – the organisation and running of matches rely on parent / carer volunteers to step forward. If you think you may be able to help, even on an occasional basis, please see the relevant section on our application form or let me know.

Please use the links below for this season’s new registration forms which must be completed even if you are an existing member of the club. You will also find links to a lot of relevant information for both players and parents. These can be found on our website: https://huttoncc.com/pages/page_35961/Hutton-Policies.aspx

Finally, we would like to thank you for continuing to be a much-valued member of Hutton CC and to remind you that we welcome all feedback and suggestions for the ongoing development and improvement of our club.

Wishing you all a great season ahead.

Darren Tredgett