Grounds Maintenance Support Courses 2024

Our Grounds Maintenance Support Programme offers a series of 5 short courses and presents excellent value for money for groundstaff or new volunteers who are showing an interest into this aspect of facility development.

The short informal courses are designed as an introduction for volunteer/recreational grounds-staff to provide essential practical skills for a range of cricket maintenance tasks, enabling the grounds-team to learn and develop the skills required to prepare and maintain a cricket playing surface.

Course content has been designed to help the individual in developing their practical turf care skills, enabling them to produce quality cricket playing surfaces in a more sustainable way.

The first two courses are now availble to book onto.

Each course is £5 each and spaces are limited.

Early spring maintenance (pre-season) - 11th April (5.30pm - 7.30pm) @ Binsted Recreation Ground, GU34 4PF

• Checking, removing any debris from the square
• Mowing, reducing the height of cut
• Planning for the season, setting out the square
• Additional renovation (minor repairs)
• Pre-season rolling
• Getting the outfield ready
• Checking ground equipment

Match pitch preparation (including marking out) - 14th May (6.30pm - 8.30pm) @ Beaulieu CC, SO42 7YG

• Pitch preparation considerations
• Mower type, cutting heights
• Wetting the pitch and drying a pitch
• Brushing, raking, mowing
• Rolling
• Marking out the pitch