Join our Coaching Team
Be Part of our Grayshott Coaching Team
Join our Grayshott Cricket Coaching Team and share your passion for the game while teaching young players valuable skills like teamwork, discipline, and resilience. It's rewarding to watch players grow, both in technique and confidence. As a coach, you also build strong community ties, develop leadership abilities, and help foster the next generation of cricketers.
Coach Support Worker
The first formal step on the coaching ladder, allowing you to assist fully qualified coaches. These roles are critical to the successful running of coaching sessions. Support workers aid the lead coach, helping to split children into smaller groups and providing more opportunities for skill practice.
These roles are ideal for parents who wish to be actively involved in their children's enjoyment of the game.
Time Commitment: Approximately 12 hours during the winter months and 18 hours during the summer months. The course is an evening or half day of your choosing.
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Foundation 1 Coach
This programme is designed to provide volunteers with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver cricket sessions that are active, purposeful, enjoyable, and safe. An ECB Foundation 1 Coach is qualified to lead coaching sessions independently. This is the entry-level qualification required to coach cricket.
Time Commitment: Approximately 12 hours during the winter months and 18 hours during the summer months. The courses are two days typically over weekends of your choosing.
A valid DBS and Safeguarding certificate are required before taking the course, which can be obtained online. The club also encourages attendance at a local first aid course, and we will help you find one.
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ECB Core Course
This course is designed to develop your confidence and equip you with the knowledge, understanding, and practical skills to lead coaching sessions for children and create safe, fun, player-centred environments.This qualification is the next step after the Foundation 1 course.
Time Commitment: Approximately 12 hours during the winter months and 18 hours during the summer months. The courses are four days typically over weekends of your choosing.
A valid DBS and Safeguarding certificate are required, which can be obtained online. A basic first aid certificate is also necessary, and the club will help you find a course.
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