Notices

Club Integration/Inclusivity Project​​

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Preamble

Our Club has a long, proud and continuing history of supporting male and female cricket at Lilac Hill and throughout the Club’s broader Community Clubs catchment – and will continue to do so.

 

We recognise that providing the opportunities for all cricketers in our community includes those with special needs. Although unable, in the foreseeable future, to include all-abilities players within Premier Cricket, we will provide support where possible, to catchment

Community Clubs to do so.

 

We have identified a continuing need to better integrate all facets of cricket at MGCC to achieve the optimum aspirations enshrined within the Club’s 2024 to 2030 Strategic Plan (SP).

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Our gender-neutral SP pillars and aspirations under the “Respect Support Commitment and Friendship” umbrella incorporate - in addition to on-field performance and Club infrastructure – enhanced personal participation and support, continuing personal development, appropriate resource allocation (including all forms of support, including financial), together with proactive multifaceted engagement between the Club’s managers, coaches, players, families, friends, and others.

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Our collective and reciprocal efforts will build a large cohesive support base for our cricket community, ensuring long-term sustainable commitment and participation.

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Primary Focus 2025-2026

In addition to the breadth of Club and reciprocal responsibilities outlined within the Strategic Plan and the Preamble above, the Club has identified a significant and essential need to ensure gender-neutral support is provided to, and received from, all involved with our Club. Fundamentally, and as a primary 25/26 focus, we must achieve full integration across all facets of our male and female cricket groups recognising, of course, essential variations of Premier Cricket’s rules and playing conditions.

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The Club has also identified significant divides between the WA Cricket oversight and administration of male and female cricket. Those divides are considered unnecessary, replicative, practically complicating and unhelpful, and are perceived to be combative to varying extents. To achieve full vertical-integration of male and female cricket at Club level it is essential the lead to our endeavours is provided, by example at the WACA.

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Actions

In general terms, dictated by above, however specifically the Club has:

1. Identified the unambiguous demand to fully integrate all Club on and off-field facets of male and female cricket, where possible.

2. Ensured resource allocations are sufficient to achieve the Club’s SP aspirations and that such resources, in a financial sense, are allocated in a reasonable and proportionate manner.

3. Established a working party comprising the Club’s Head Coach of Female Cricket, the Senior Females’ Cricket Coordinator (also a member of Committee) the Junior Girls’ Cricket Coordinator a recently appointed female Committee member to identify current shortcomings, barriers and other female-related obstacles to full male/female integration and to recommend necessary procedures to Committee to achieve desired outcomes.

4. Recognised improved support and off-field participation from the Club’s male cricketers, including contracted personnel, is required to achieve full gender integration.

5. Has aspired for 50/50 male/female appointments to General Committee.​

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Progress Measurements & Budgets

Progress measurement

• Will be self-evident as the season progresses

  • Club

    • Will include details of reciprocal shortcomings/hurdles, recommended changes of practice(s), improvements introduced/reinforced/ achieved, social event attendances, increased social memberships & other volunteer support

    • Will encourage all senior females playing representative cricket, when available from representative duties, to attend all Players’ Tea events with full inclusion in activities and acknowledgment of performance in line with male counterparts such attendance will provide essential high-level incentive to others to also attend and support Club endeavours to achieve full integration

    • Will increase General Committee female membership to 50% by end of season

  • WA Cricket (WADCC/WAFCC concerns) – TBD

Budget

• Apart from possible resource allocations/reallocations, if necessary, all proposed actions and outcomes will be financially positive for the Club (and indeed, culture positive).