Abingdon Vale
biggest percentage of income the club has,
I feel that we also give something to the
local community by bringing people into
the town.
The town centre is only a five minute
walk from the club, where I hope that
the shops, pubs and restaurants benefit
from these rallies. We have also hosted
the local army barracks for a cricket day
and some local companies hire the club
for corporate games. For the last couple
of summers we have had a link up with
Our Lady’s Secondary school where we
provide our ground for training and inter
school matches. I am hoping to go into
one of the primary schools this winter and
doing some sort of coaching within the
school.”
Challenges/Ambitions
“The main challenge that we have is that
the ground is on the Thames floodplain
and floods every year. Fortunately,
this has been rare to overly affect the
cricket, but the ground was flooded from
November 2013 to Easter 2014, so it is
always a challenge to get both pitches
ready for the start of the season.
This also creates a bit of negativity
locally as there is a belief that due to the
low lying ground the pitches are not
great – granted looking at the umpire’s
comments in the Cherwell League
Handbook, this would be disputed.
There is also a concern that there isn’t
enough free time for members to dedicate
developing the club, due to increased
work/family commitments.
Over the coming years, ideally, we
would be looking for all four league sides
to get up a division and consistently be
finishing in the top half of their divisions
each season.”
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