Welcome:
Welcome back to the third edition of the Shelley Cricket Club Newsletter. The newsletter is designed to keep everyone informed of the key information and events that can be shared to everyone at the club including social members, players, parents and guardians. We hope everyone is well and is looking forward to the ever nearing 2024 season.

March is one of the most important months at Shelley Cricket Club as final preparations are being made as the season gets closer and closer, now only being a month away. The continued hard work of people at the club to make things happen for 2024 season.

March’s Events:
• Winter Nets at Stumps Indoor Cricket Nets on Sunday 3rd March 4.30PM – 5.30PM for both seniors and juniors.
• Winter Nets at Stumps Indoor Cricket Nets on Sunday 10th March 4.30PM – 5.30PM for both seniors and juniors.
• Winter Nets at Stumps Indoor Cricket Nets on Sunday 17th March 4.30PM – 5.30PM for both seniors and juniors.
• Committee Meeting on Monday 18th March. (If you are wanting to discuss any matters or raise a concern and would like to attend a committee meeting and are not on the committee, please contact our chairperson Donna Mellor).
• Winter Nets at Honley High School on Sunday 24th March 2.30PM – 4PM for seniors and 3PM-4PM for juniors.
• Members Signing-On Evening on Sunday 24th March 5PM.
• Winter Nets at Honley High School on Sunday 31st March 2.30PM – 4PM for seniors and 3PM-4PM for juniors.
• Monthly Quiz Night on Sunday 31st March hosted by Simon Rotchell TBC.

Memberships:
Shelley Cricket Club is a private sports club, we do not have a public license, and so everyone using the club on a regular basis should be a signed-up member. Income from membership is a vital part of keeping the club going, prior to Covid-19 every non-cricket playing member of the club was asked to pay a social membership (as is the case in other cricket and sports clubs). Social membership can be paid at the bar or by logging on to www.shelleycricketclub.com via our QR code.

Members will receive a membership number and their name will be displayed on the membership notice in the club. The team at Shelley Cricket Club have the right to charge non-members a subsidy.

Members of Shelley Cricket Club are reminded of the club rules of membership displayed on the membership board and on the Shelley Cricket Club website.

Members Benefits:
• The current price tariff on drinks will be held (non-members will pay a 2% subsidy).
• Discount on club hire.
Memberships will be valid for 12 months from the 01/04/2024.

Types of Membership:
• Social Membership £10, per person – for all people over 18 years old wishing to use the clubs facilities.
• Couple Social Membership, £15 per couple – discounted price for couple’s over 18 years old wishing to use the clubs facilities.
• Full Membership, £35 per person – entitles full voting rights.
• Senior Playing Membership, £35 excluding subs or £160 including subs per person – senior player subs cost £5 per match.
• Student Playing Membership, £35 excluding subs or £110 including subs per person – student player subs cost £3 per match.
• Midweek League Playing Membership, £25 excluding subs per person – midweek player subs cost £2.50 per match.
• Junior Playing Memberships, £35 per person – does not include subs.
• Single Family Membership, £45 per family (includes 2 social memberships and 1 junior playing membership) – does not include subs.
• Double Family Membership, £75 per family (includes 2 social memberships and 2 junior playing memberships) – does not include subs.

Anyone wanting to become a member of Shelley Cricket Club is invited to attend our members signing-on evening on Sunday 24th March at 5PM onwards!

2024 Fixtures:
Our fixtures for Under 13’s, Midweek, 2nd and 1st Teams for the 2024 season are now live on pitchero and our website. Please mark your availability for the matches down if you are player for one of these teams.

If you wanting to join one of our teams please contact: info@shelleycricketclub.com

Runs4Research:
We are glad to announce that the club will be hosting a charity match on Sunday 21st July 2024 between Shelley Cricket Club and Run4Research. Runs4Research are a cause for club cricketers to raise funds for Alzheimer's Research by scoring runs and taking wickets. The cause was set up by Jake Burton after losing his grandad who had suffered with Dementia for the last years of his life. He had been contemplating doing something to raise some money for research towards battling it! Runs4Research have now raised over £33,000 for Alzheimer's Research UK which is a fantastic achievement for everyone involved!

Hopefully the sun is out and we have plenty people up listening to some live music, enjoying some quality food provided by tin box pizza, watching some entertaining cricket and most importantly raising some good money for a great cause!

Easter Raffle:
Our Easter Raffle is now live! Tickets available for purchase at the club for £1. Prizes to be won range from an Easter egg to a bottle of wine. The raffle will be drawn on Friday 29th March! All the proceeds will go towards junior cricket equipment.

Reflections on February:
Our bar had a successful relaunch after being closed after renovations, we hope that everyone is enjoying our refreshed facilities!

Our senior and junior winter nets got underway at Honley High School being well attended by both senior and junior teams. Good to see plenty of old and new faces including some new additions for the senior teams.

The club are pleased to announce the signings of Atlaf Patel and Greg Alexander two great editions. Atlaf Patel previously of Hemsworth Miners Welfare of the Pontefract & District League scored 600+ league runs last season helping his side to a comfortable mid table finish. The top order batsman will strengthen Shelley’s top order massively. Greg Alexander’s previous club being Elland where he also scored 600+ and taking 20+ wickets in his best season at the club in the championship. Most of the Shelley players have come up against Greg at some point and know what he is capable of with both bat and ball. Overall, two great signings for the club who we hope to go on and thrive at Shelley!

Sponsorship Opportunities:

Why Shelley Cricket Club?

Under the carefully guidance of the committee and chairperson Donna Mellor a well-respected figure around the local community and aided by the two senior teams captains, Jacob Holling and Tim Jones the club are looking at moving the boundaries on how the club operates and have lofty ambitions with regards to the standard of facilities and usage, the key area we need help from sponsors. The club in 2024 created a 5-year plan of how it will move forward and central to this plan is the motto ‘One Club, One Community’. This started with investing in the future, bringing in more youngsters to introduce them to the game whether they are playing for enjoyment, fitness or to win. The junior and senior teams having qualified coaches available on training nights to improve the standards around the club and mentor the talented players at our club. A large part of this plan however does involve sponsorship which is where you come into the equation projects such as a fixed netting installation or an electronic scoreboard are upgrade to the club which will benefit the community. We also have one of the biggest social media cricket accounts in the area with well over 1,250 followers on Instagram and Twitter plus over 800 Facebook followers too. In 2023, across all our social media’s including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube reached around 30,000 people!

2024/25 Senior Shirt Sponsorship – £1500 for 2 years. (Your company’s logo on our 2024/25 senior playing shirts)

2024/25 Junior Shirt Sponsorship - £1000 for 2 years. (Your company’s logo on our 2024/25 junior playing shirts)

2024/25 Training Kit Sponsorship – £1000 for 2 years. (Your company’s logo on our all our 2024/25 training kit)

2024/25 T20 Shirt Sponsorship - £750 for 2 years. (Your company’s logo on a new T20 shirt for 2024/25)

Unique Player Sponsorship - £50 for 1 year. (Unique player sponsorship of any player of your choice unless already sponsored and social media posts for the player during the season)

Match Ball – £50 (Social media post, two teas and bottle of a prosecco complimentary)

Match Day – £100 (Social media post, four teas, one bottle of a prosecco complimentary and bar discount)

Covers – £250 for 1 cover, 2 years. £600 for 3 covers, 2 years. (Vinyl banner of your company’s logo on our covers)

Scoreboard/Scorebox – £250 for 1 year, £500 for 3 years (Sponsorship board on the scorebox, website sponsorship and social media post)

Zing Wickets Sponsorship - £100 for 1 year. (Your company’s logo on our zing wickets)
Frogbox Streaming Sponsorship - £500 for 1 year. (Your company’s logo on YouTube on our Frogbox streaming service)

We are pleased to announce that Gate Nine will be acting on Shelley Cricket Club’s behalf for our board sponsorships. Any enquires for board sponsors please contact ben@gatenine.co.uk or visit www.gatenine.co.uk ,information for this is also available in the clubhouse.

If you are wanting to sponsor the club if any particular way then please contact info@shelleycricketclub.com or contact us on any of our social medias.

If you are unable to sponsor at this moment in time, we also accept donations. Donations from companies have helped us installed new blinds and new vinyl carpet in our tearoom. These are also essential part of us trying to improve and scale our club. If you do choose to donate to our club this will be greatly appreciated and we will post on our social media’s about your kind donation spreading the word about your helpful donations to our many followers and members.

Thank you:
Thanks for reading and keep on the lookout for anymore news and information that is posted on our social media and website.

Thank you for your continued support!
Shelley Cricket Club