bromham
and playing cricket with the children and
families who came up to the stall. It’s
not much but certainly emphasises our
willingness to understand how important
community involvement is.
I’d love to say youth cricket is at the
front of our agenda, along with ladies and
disability cricket, however we are a small
club who is currently ‘groundless’ or so to
speak. We have a couple of teenage lads
(Ollie and Charlie) who are at the Bedford
Modern School and will both be extremely
good players in the future, they currently
are in fact extremely good and far better
than I ever was at their age.”
Facilities
“Prior to 2007 we were on park pitches,
we agreed a ground share situation
with Bromham Nomads CC, they were
struggling for players and we wanted our
own ground so the Bedfordshire Cricket
Board acted as a dating agency and got
us together. Later that season, Bromham
Nomads folded and the ground fell to us
along with all the rubbish they left behind
including unpaid bills.
Little we knew about preparing
or maintaining a wicket, running a
club house facility but we relished the
opportunity and got to work. I organised
variou s fundraisers including sports
memorabilia auctions and raffles in our
local pub to raise money for an outfield
mower, NatWest Cricket Force days really
came in handy with the players, friends
and family all turning up to help out get
the club house in good working order. I
personally went on a groundsmans course
and learnt how to prepare and maintain
the playing surface.”
Groundshare
“After seasons flying by of winning
the FCCL Division 4 and achieving
promotion into the FCCL Division 2 things
were looking rosy. The local Bromham
villagers even commented on the ground
and said they had never seen the place
looking so beautiful and well maintained.
It was bliss.
Until we were told by our Landlord
the clubhouse was in disrepair and he
didn’t wanted us to use it. Which was fair,
so I approached the BCB with a 5 year
development plan and verbally agreed in
principle we could propose plans to build
a new clubhouse facility for adults and
children of all ages and abilities, one of the
understandable primary conditions was
ensuring we had a 25 year Lease in place.
Once this was produced and requested to
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