Gloucestershire Cricket Board Website Tender
The GCB was founded in 1996 as one of 39 County Cricket Boards (CCB) following the establishment of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as the national governing body for cricket. It is now a small business, GCB Ltd and is based at the County Ground in Bristol. The purpose of the Board is "to lead, inspire and influence the growth, quality and accessibility of cricket in Gloucestershire”
This Company employs five full-time staff and over fifty part-time cricket coaches. It has overall responsibility for the development of the game in the county which encompasses adult, youth and school cricket (men and women, boys and girls), leagues, coach education, and training of umpires, scorers and groundstaff. The Board works in partnership with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club to recruit, coach and manage all the county age group sides with a specific aim of producing players for the 1st X1.
Gloucestershire is a large county in geographical terms and has great variety from inner city Bristol and Gloucester to the rural Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean. It has over 200 active senior clubs with most of these having junior sections – and an increasing number catering for women and girls. The level of activity is high with courses for coaches, officials and groundstaff during the winter and schools’ festivals and league cricket during the summer.
This activity is managed and monitored by the full-time workforce and the volunteers who serve on the various Development Groups (Senior Clubs, Youth and Schools), Associations (Officials, Coaches and Groundstaff) and Leagues (Adult and Youth) overseen by the Board of Directors.
In such a large county communication is key to the success of the GCB, especially given the high level of activity and the number of people and organisations involved. It is in this context that a professionally designed and informative website is one of the agreed IPP targets for 2010. The completed website needs to be accessible to member clubs and organisations, secure, user-friendly, informative and up-to-date – and reasonably easy to update on a regular basis.
For further information please download the tender document below.
