The Future of The Wick
Our Vision, Mission, Objectives & Tactics
What’s important to us as a club?
– Our vision for the future is to demonstrate that cricket can be played at the highest level whilst respecting the Wick’s Values
What are we about as a club?
– Our mission is to be a thriving, diverse and friendly community built on a love of competitive cricket
What does success look like?
– Our objective is to become and remain a Division 2 club built on home grown, bottom-up talent and done in the Wick Way
The Future of The Wick
Our Strategies
1. Building Competitiveness
Our tactics:
– Create a clear player development pathway – from Juniors upwards
– Establish a Juniors academy for most talented players
– Improve standard of coaching for every level
– Improve standard and quality of pitches – research options for grounds maintenance
– Provide more support for non-cricketing managers – establish Senior team buddy system?
– Pavilion re-development – satisfy ECB regulations
Our dashboard measures:
– Win ratio targets for each team
– League table standings – targets and actual
– Player recruitment and retention numbers – x% increase year on year
– Pitch reports?
2. Building Community
Our tactics:
– Create shadow board integrating Colts and seniors
– Partner with other sports: define “cricket club or sports club” direction
– Establish school outreach programme for player recruitment – x% increase in players year on year
– Integrated cross-club communications and raise profile of external communication
– Strengthen girls / women’s cricket
– Integrate Colts parents socially throughout the season and off season
– Create a succession plan for key roles
Our dashboard measures:
– Gender balance, age split on membership and committee functions
– Membership numbers growth
– Social media followers
– Social event attendance
3. Building Commercialism
Our tactics:
– Create events team
– Exploit pavilion hire on and off-season
– Investigate local commercial sponsorship
– Research funding options for re-development
– Profile parents for engagement / sponsorship
– Create Head of Fundraising
Our dashboard measures:
– Profitability targets – x% growth year on year
– Event revenues
– Fundraising targets
– Hire revenues