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SURVEY

DTCC's 5-year Plan

It’s been nearly 5 years since our last plan, and looking back, it's pleasing that many of the items on our wish list have been delivered, and in no small part, thanks to the hard efforts of our volunteers.


So now it’s time to look forward, and put together a new plan for our Club, and we would like to invite you to submit your suggestions and any priorities you may have. The lists below have been put together from various sources and are in no way set in stone, and are there purely to help with the thinking process.


In advance, many thanks for your time and suggestions.

DTCC

Membership Type:
Full Adult Playing Member
Full Member, non-Playing
Social Member
Social Member, Colt Guardian
Social Member, Football
Non-Member

Financial Stability

In order to support our ambitions, we need to build sustainable revenue streams and invest wisely in accordance with our strategy.

Sponsorship:

- Maintain current and seek out new sponsorship opportunities.

- Recognize and support our current and future sponsors.

- Display Sponsors in the Clubrooms

- Invite sponsors to club functions

- Advertise sponsors on website

Membership:

- Adopt strategies that allow members to pay fees in an affordable manner

- Maintain affordable and value for money membership and match fees, through effective management and commercial activities.

- Grow our Social Membership numbers.

- Membership Cards (linked to till system), Packages and Offering.

Grants:

- Continue to maximise grant income

Function Room & Bar:

- Continue to invest to create a high-quality environment in order to maximise event income, and help subsidise membership fees.

Fund Raising Events:

- Look at different types of fundraising events

Facilities Improvement

To provide a welcoming environment that our members and community can enjoy, through ongoing development and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure, by setting the benchmark for the best facilities for Players and Supporters in the area.

Playing & Training Facilities:

- Refurbish Indoor Nets

- Refurbish Covers

- Replace Sightscreens

- Improve practice surfaces

- Refurbish Changing Rooms

- Toilet Facilities on top pitch

- Streaming Service for games / training

- WIFI to top pitch for digital scoring

- New Boundary Markers / Rope

- New Bowling Machines

- Nursery ground barrier

- Improved Drainage / Wet weather equipment

- Automatic irrigation system

- Improve sustainability of water supply, via bore hole or rainwater collection system, for two pitches.

Club House:

- Decorate the Club House / Function Roomn

- Full refurbishment of toilet areas

- Refurbish showers

- More club photos

- Improve behind the bar operations: new tills / pumps etc

- New Ceiling Tiles

- Repair Guttering

- Rainwater Harvesting

Grounds:

- Improved Football dugouts

- New Football Goal Posts / on wheels

- Improved hedgerow maintenance

- Improved fence maintenance

- Look at increasing carparking

- Improve lighting in carpark

- A designated function area patio / ground

- Plant Trees and more flowers to underdeveloped areas

People

To provide an inclusive pathway for players to achieve their highest level of performance within a winning team culture. To put our members at the core of everything we do and aspire a genuine lifelong passion for the club.

 

People / Community:

- Increase number of volunteers

- Build links with local businesses

- Build links with village clubs to create pathways

- Build / develop links with other Dunstable Team’s, FC, bowls etc

- Links / coaching in local schools

- Build links with local community

- More Club “Social” Events

- Grow our Social Membership and create an active and supportive past players group.

Cricket:

- Sat 1s Promotion to Prem

- Sat 2s Promotion to div 2

- Sat 3s Promotion to div 6

- Sat 4s Promotion to div 10

- Sun 1s Title

- Sun 2s Maintain div 1

- Sun 3s Promotion to div 3

- Increase no of volunteer coaches

- Increase no of Ladies Coaches

- Increase no of Ladies / girls

- Offer disability Cricket

- Increase Player Members

- Pro Cricketer / Overseas

- Enter Herts T20

- Play mid-week cricket

- To employee a head of cricket

- Increase Number of Colts Teams

- Increase no of juniors

- Increases County Presence - Senior

- Increases County Presence - Junior

Partnerships

To build and maintain relationships of mutual benefit with key stakeholders including club members, volunteers, clubs and associations. To be proud of our heritage and lead our brand to sustained success.

 

Associations:

- Maintain and grow relationships with Cricket East, Leagues, Councils and funding bodies.

Community:

- Develop relations with community and country clubs and schools to improve the cricket pathway

Commercial:

- Source and retain long term business partners.

Promotion:

- Promote our values as the "Club of Choice" for players, supporters and sponsors.

- Continue to invest in our online presence and links to the local community.

Governance

To provide the organisation structure and leadership necessary to navigate the challenges of running a successful cricket club, and keeping members informed and engaged through regular communication channels.

 

Safeguarding:

- Encourage and develop understanding of the code of conduct.

- Maintain and Encourage Diversity and inclusivity within our member base

- Enlist further volunteers to help drive continued development.

Communications:

- Communicate regularly to the community on Club activity, success and achievements.

- Enhance our digital footprint, to empower all aspects of DTCC’s governance to be “digital first”, to provide effective communications to cricket community and beyond.

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