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AUS/PL001	INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CRICKET TRUST (ICCT) International Community Cricket Trust Limited (ICCT) is the parent company/charity of both On-Side Cricket Limited (OSCL) and its sister company the International Institute of Cricket Umpires & Scorers (IICUS). The ICCT's Chairman of Trustees is Keith Pont, an ex-Essex county player and who, for seven years until he resigned, was the Director of Cricket Development at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). His deputy is Darrell Hair, the Australian ICC Elite Test and ODI Panel Umpire. On-Side Cricket is a 'not-for-profit' organisation that has been founded by life-long recreational cricketers specifically as a 'one-stop-shop-resource' able to offer a comprehensive range of support services and facilities for the circa 9,000 community (recreational) cricket clubs - and their committees - throughout the United Kingdom, many of whom are finding survival each year increasingly difficult. Full details of OSCL's range of activities, together with the reasons why it has been founded and why it is needed, can be found on www.onsidecricket.org.uk but, specifically, OSCL is seeking major sponsors to help launch its proposed annual UK-wide (with regional finals) National Pubs Twenty/20 Knockout Trophy Competition, due to start in July 2009. This is a professionally-administered annual cricket event aimed at raising the profile of pubs in the community, re-encouraging pub customer loyalty and support and helping to arrest the decline in pub numbers resulting from the smoking ban. The International Institute of Cricket Umpires & Scorers has been founded to overcome the steadily-declining numbers and desperate shortage of professionally-trained, competent, qualified umpires and scorers at all levels of the game. It is an entirely independent - and the only - organisation able to offer not only the following *Edexcel-accredited, internationally recognised, and internationally consistent qualifications - BTEC (Level 2) Intermediate Certificate in Cricket Umpiring; BTEC (Level 3) Professional Award for Delivering Cricket Umpiring and Scoring Vocational Qualifications; BTEC Advanced Diploma in Cricket Umpiring - but also an independent membership body and voice for cricket umpires and scorers at all levels in the game. (* Edexcel Limited is part of the Pearson Group and, with offices in over a hundred countries, the largest recognised - and one of the most respected - qualifications awarding body in the world). In response to much greater than anticipated demands for its Courses both in the UK, the EU and overseas, the Institute has founded Edexcel-verified Umpire Education Centres - mandatory for delivering BTEC Courses - on Merseyside and in Gloucester, Northamptonshire and Oxford; and, most recently, at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in New South Wales. Full details of the Institute, its courses and its activities can be found on: www.umpires.tv. To enable both of its wholly-owned subsidiaries to cope with these exponentially increasing demands for their respective services, the International Community Cricket Trust is seeking to engage with empathetic corporate stakeholder sponsors and commercial joint venture/affinity marketing partners who see the value of taking their brands directly to the 2,000,000+ participants in community cricket in the UK (alone). Full details of the reciprocal quid pro quos and ROIs offered by ICCT, OSCL and IICUS are available upon request to seriously-interested parties. Contact: Keith Pont, Chairman of Trustees. Address: 8th Floor, Tolworth House, Ewell Road, Surbiton KT6 7EL. Tel.: 020 8390 3100. Fax: 020 8390 3600. E-mail: info@communitycricket.org.uk. link to website	Ongoing
AUS/PL002	INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRICKET UMPIRING & SCORING (IICUS) The International Institute of Cricket Umpiring & Scoring (IICUS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Community Cricket Trust, UK-registered charity No.1119716. IICUS is the only independent institute in the world able to offer education and development courses leading to the award of the following Edexcel*-accredited, internationally-recognised, qualifications - BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Cricket Umpiring; BTEC Level 3 Professional Award for Delivering Vocational Cricket Umpiring and Scoring Qualifications (this qualifies and empowers local indigenous umpires to subsequently deliver the Edexcel BTEC Level 2 Certificate courses themselves in their own country); Advanced Diploma in Cricket Umpiring. (* Edexcel Limited is part of the Pearson Group and, with offices in over a hundred countries, the largest recognised - and one of the most respected - qualifications awarding body in the world). Such has become the much earlier-than-anticipated increase in demand for its courses throughout Australasia and the Asia Pacific/ASEAN region that, in addition to its UK centres, the Institute has had to set up also an Edexcel-verified Umpire Education Centre at the Sydney Cricket Ground in New South Wales and is now looking to do the same in each of the Asia-Pacific countries in the region. To enable it to support the increasing numbers of courses and qualified tutors required, and to set up the necessary number of mandatory Edexcel-verified education centres required to accommodate them, the Institute is seeking global, blue-chip, stakeholder sponsors/partners. Full details of the reciprocal quid pro quos being offered are available on request. Contact: Barrie Stuart-King, Global Head of Fund Raising & Partnerships. Address: 8th Floor, Tolworth House, Ewell Road, Surbiton, Surrey, England KT6 7EL. Tel.: +44 (0)20 8390 3100. Fax: +44 (0)20 8390 3600. E-mail: info@umpires.tv. link to website	Ongoing