In addition to the above, Jon has also attended the following continuous professional development / courses:

• Good Practice and Child Protection
• NSPCC Time To Listen (Child welfare)
• Working with Disabled Sportspeople.  
• FUNdamentals of movement
• Equity in your coaching
• Multi-skill clubs in practice
• Sport England - A Club for All
• Preliminary Award in Training Speed, Agility & Quickness

In addition to his professional qualifications he has:

• Enhanced level Criminal Records Bureau approval to work with children & young people under 18.
• Public Liability insurance for his coaching.
• Extensive experience of coaching middle & senior managers in business – and can use these skills to help players develop the mental side of their sport.
• Attended conferences on Long Term Athlete Development & uses these principles within his sessions.
• Attended a coach development session on wrist spin development with Terry Jenner. (Shane Warne’s personal coach)
• Been trained and accredited by The ECB to act as a Tutor, Assessor and Verifier for Coach Education Programmes.
• Obtained the D32 and D33 Assessor, Verifier and Advisor qualification, and the D34 Internal Verifier qualification through Pitman Qualifications.

He is a member of:

• The E.C.B. Coaches Association.
• The Cumbria Cricket Board Coaches Association.
• Cockermouth Cricket Club. 

In addition to his professional coaching, Jon has also undertaken a very substantial amount of voluntary work within cricket over the last 10 years, and on a voluntary basis he is the lead coach for the Under 13 squad at Cockermouth Cricket Club.

Julie’s background….

Whilst neither a cricket coach or player, Julie also has Police Criminal Records Bureau approval to work with children & young people, and is actively involved within cricket:

She has attended the following training:

• NSPCC “Time to Listen” (child welfare) course
• Sports Coach UK “Good Practice & Child protection” course
• ECB County Welfare Officers training course.
• Red Cross “First Aid for Sports” course.
• NSPCC Tutor training for The “Time to Listen” Child Welfare Officers course.
• Sports Coach UK Tutor training for their Good Practice & Child Protection (GP&CP) course, and Tutor training for their new "Safeguarding & Protecting Children" (SPC) workshop

Her career experience includes Personnel, Training and Retail Management. She holds professional qualifications as a Tutor, gained through The Guardian Business School. Julie's experience of cricket includes having been a Cricket Club Secretary and she was also a Member of 2 separate Cricket League Management Committees in Hampshire until we moved to Cumbria in 2001.

As a Child Welfare Tutor, Julie is accredited to deliver:

• The NSPCC “Time to Listen” course for Cricket Club & Cricket League Child Welfare Officers.
• The ECB's Cricket specific version of the Sports Coach UK “Safeguarding & Protecting Children" (SPC) course for Child Welfare Officers and Coaches at Cricket Clubs.
• She is also separately licenced by Sports Coach UK to deliver the "multi sport version" of the “Safeguarding & Protecting Children" course for Sports Coaches & Child Welfare Officers.  (From 2007 SPC updates & replaces the "old" Good Practice & Child Protection Course - GPCP)

Working from home, Julie is nearly always the person you will speak to when you call us. So - if you have any queries about who we are, or about what we do, then please do give us a ring, or send us an email. We will pleased to try to help you!