The CA have distributed details of another source of Funding – Local Discretionary Business Grants Fund. This is especially useful to Clubs who could not secure a £10,000 grant from the Small Business Grant Fund.
Read more details – HERE
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The CA have distributed details of another source of Funding – Local Discretionary Business Grants Fund. This is especially useful to Clubs who could not secure a £10,000 grant from the Small Business Grant Fund.
Read more details – HERE
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Croquet Association Guidance – Covid-19 Precautions for Playing Croquet – Version 2 – 14th May, 2020
The Croquet Association offers the following advice to clubs and players, to minimise the risk of infection by Covid-19 when clubs decide to open for play. Both clubs and players should follow Government guidance, particularly those in vulnerable groups; this advice supplements that general guidance by covering situations specific to croquet. The advice was updated, primarily to insert the following paragraph and encourage provision of signs, on 14th May and may be further updated if government advice changes.
The guidance published by DCMS on 13th May states that organisations are encouraged to think creatively about how best to make their sport or activity possible within the guidelines, but also that they should only reopen or restart activities as soon as they feel able to do so safely. These guidelines should be read in conjunction with that advice.
These are uncertain and very unsettling times. We want our community to stay physically and mentally healthy and as long as it is safe to do, and provided that it is consistent with Government guidance, we want to keep the croquet lawns open and available for members to use. We hope you all stay healthy and that we all get through these challenging times by looking to help each other where we can.
Meanwhile, keep safe, take care, look after yourself and, if possible, enjoy your croquet.
The CA recommends that clubs adopt this advice and adapt it to their circumstances. The advice below recognises that there are now more stringent measures that must be followed if our sport is to be managed in a safe way.
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CROQUET SET SALES INCREASE AS PEOPLE LOOK TO BEAT LOCKDOWN BOREDOM
The Croquet Association (CA), the sport’s governing body, has seen a sharp increase in sales of croquet sets since lockdown began, as people look for creative ways to entertain themselves at home.
On the wave of this demand, the CA is encouraging more people to try croquet during lockdown – even if they don’t have a garden! They have set up a website www.trycroquet.co.uk/ to provide some short croquet challenges, and to get people sharing creative videos of themselves playing, using the hashtag #lockdowncroquet.
About croquet Similar to snooker but played on grass, croquet is a mallet sport that calls for skill, strategy and tactics, and enough exertion to get your daily exercise in. Players in a competitive croquet match cover 4km; perhaps as much as Captain-now-Colonel
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