Dear Parent / Carer
Oxted and Limpsfield Cricket Club (OLCC) welcomes you and your children to the club and the 2022 season. We hope that your child(ren) will enjoy being a club member and will enjoy the cricket coaching, training, and matches, as well as the social interactions available at the club.
The aim of this letter is to provide information that may be helpful to you as new or existing members. Please do ask me or Jo Read – the Club Safeguarding Officers – or any committee member or coach if you have other questions not answered in this letter.
The club is run by a number of volunteers, many of whom dedicate a great deal of time to the success of the club and most importantly, to make sure all junior members enjoy their cricket and are safely looked after. We welcome offers of help from all members, and hope that as you feel part of the club you will feel able to get involved.
A full list of officers, committee members, coaches and officials can be found on Pitchero.
We are a ‘Clubmark’ club and we adhere to the ‘Safe Hands’ Policy for Safeguarding Children in Cricket. All the adults at the club who work with children and meet the necessary criteria are Vetted by the ECB. This includes the enhanced DBS and ‘Barred List’ check (formerly known as CRB checks). Whilst we hope your child will be happy and content at the club, we understand that sometimes questions, concerns or difficulties may arise.
Please feel able to raise these as soon as possible, so we can rectify things at the earliest opportunity. If you have a question regarding coaching, please approach the coach in the first instance. However, please do not interrupt coaching sessions, especially nets practice, as this may distract the coach when he or she needs to be supervising the children. Our coaches will be happy to speak to you before or after training or at another convenient time.
If you have questions about kit requirements, training times, pick up arrangements or any other aspect of the cricket programme please speak to your age group coach or Rob Burles who is Head of Junior Cricket robert.burles@yahoo.co.uk
If you have any concern about your child or another child, or about the behaviour of any adult at the club, please speak to me or Jo Read, the Club safeguarding officers. You can contact us both by emailing safeguarding@oxtedandlimpsfieldcc.co.uk
‘Safe hands’, the ECB’s guidance for safeguarding children in cricket, is available to view online at https://www.ecb.co.uk/about/policies-and-regulations/safeguarding, or a copy is available from us. Finally, all members are reminded of the club’s code of conduct for members and guests, available on Pitchero. We do hope that you and your children enjoy being members of the Oxted and Limpsfield Cricket Club, and if you have any concerns, do please let us know.
Yours sincerely

Ben and Jo
Club Safeguarding Officers