The ECB's publication A Guide To Managing A Successful Club is available here in PDF format for you to download, save and print as necessary.
It will:
There is a lot of formal jargon and it is easy for things to appear over complicated when thinking about planning for the future, but the process is and should be fairly simple:
Please note the full version of the publication below is a large file, so may take some time to download over a slow modem connection:
A Guide To Managing A Successful Club (7.2 MB)
The document is also available here broken down into three separate pieces for ease of download should you require:
A Guide To Managing A Successful Club - 1 (2.3 MB)
A Guide To Managing A Successful Club - 2 (3.2 MB)
A Guide To Managing A Successful Club - 3 (1.7 MB)
You can also download these useful support documents:
Club Records (85 KB)
Data Protection (82 KB)
Why have a Constitution (84 KB)
Model Club Constitution (113 KB)
Example Club Constitution (93 KB)
Model Constitution - template for Amateur Sports Clubs from CCPR (54 KB)
Committee Structure (85 KB)
Officers Roles (94 KB)
Outline General Media Agenda (84 KB)
Outline AGM Agenda (84 KB)
Equity Policy (103 KB)
Health and Safety Policy (93 KB)
As well as following links above to sections on Child Protection, Volunteers and Insurance - as well as other invaluable resources relating to club cricket.