Cricket in schools · Cambridgeshire

Cricket that reaches beyond the children who already play.

Specialist coaching for primary and secondary schools. Every child gets a genuine achievement measured against their own starting point — and your staff finish able to run cricket without us.

ECB Level 2
Enhanced DBS · Update Service
Safeguarding trained
First aid qualified
Concussion awareness
Disability & inclusion coaching
Mental health in sport
Prevent duty
£10m public liability
ICO registered
What we offer

Three ways to run cricket at your school — starting with one that costs you nothing.

Start here

After-school club

£420 / six weeks

One hour a week, up to 16 children, all equipment provided. Parent-funded at your usual club rate — so it costs the school nothing and needs no budget approval. The simplest way to find out whether we’re any good.

Core programme

Six-week block

£990 / six visits

Six half-day visits, progressive and differentiated, ending in a competition week where every child plays. Includes a twilight CPD hour for your staff, a handover pack and an end-of-block report.

Specialist

Specialist block

£1,150 / six visits

The same six weeks in smaller groups, with bespoke planning and adapted delivery, for provision that needs more than a standard block can give. We hold the qualifications to deliver it properly rather than improvise.

How groups work — and why eight matters

One coach per eight children in active delivery. Any more and children spend the session standing in a queue, which is how most of them decide cricket isn’t for them.

Groups can rotate through a visit at no extra cost, so one coach comfortably reaches 24 children in a half day. Where a whole class is out at once, we either bring additional DBS-checked coaches at £80 each per half day, or work alongside your own staff at no extra cost. Most schools mix the two.

What you keep

We don’t just deliver sessions. We leave you able to run them.

Most providers are designed to be needed again next year. We’d rather your staff finished the block able to run cricket themselves — with the plans, the confidence and the equipment knowledge to do it.

Every session

  • The same qualified coach each week
  • One coach per eight children, always
  • All equipment, sized to the age group
  • Sessions differentiated within the group
  • An indoor alternative planned as standard — we don’t cancel for weather

What you keep afterwards

  • A twilight CPD hour for your staff
  • Session plans and a scheme of work
  • An end-of-block report for your PE lead
  • Named routes into cricket outside school
  • Children who know they can play
Compliance and safeguarding

Everything your safeguarding lead will want to know.

Clearances and cover

  • Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list, obtained through a registered umbrella body and maintained on the DBS Update Service, so status can be verified live at any time
  • A second adult on site at all times, whatever the group size — we don’t deliver alone
  • A named, cleared cover coach agreed before every block, so sessions run even if your usual coach can’t attend
  • Anyone else attending is cleared to the same standard, with documents supplied in advance

Documents

  • Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
  • Coach Code of Conduct
  • Generic risk assessment, plus a site-specific version for your school
  • £10m public liability and £10m employers’ liability certificates
  • Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office

The full compliance pack is one PDF, and you can have it today

Certificates, policies, risk assessment and insurance in a single document, supplied before the first visit rather than on request. Ask and it’ll be with you the same day.

Next step

The easiest way to find out is to let us run one session.

A single taster session is £150, credited against anything you book the same term. Or a twenty-minute call, whichever is easier.

What happens next

1. A short call — we talk about what your school actually needs, not what we’d like to sell.

2. Compliance pack and a site-specific risk assessment, before anything is booked.

3. A taster session or a first club, whichever suits.

Ben Kavanagh
ECB Level 2 qualified. Enhanced DBS on the Update Service. Coaching in schools across Cambridgeshire.