Julian's early career saw him working for a number of large international hotel chains, gaining experience in management, project accountancy, report writing and strategic planning before moving on to take over control of his family's own hotel businesses.

When the family hotel businesses were sold, he became a founding partner in a small, successful engineering business based in the Cotswolds for which he developed the necessary manuals, documentation and quality control systems that enabled the company to obtain BSI 9000 registration, prior - yet gain - to being bought out by a much larger organisation. During this period he chaired a number of different local community not-for-profit and charity projects.

Julian is currently head of a successful financial services company, specialising in project finance, mortgages and insurance.

A wicketkeeper of more enthusiasm than talent and a batsman of mixed fortune during his 40-years playing career, Alick's experience in club cricket is, nonetheless, wide-ranging.

He has played on many different grounds in many environments, ranging from the middle of a suburban housing estate, the grounds of a down-at-heel mansion, part of a high-security mental hospital to settings in the middle of the Ashdown Forest and a pristine Cambridge College campus. He has played friendly, un-friendly, social and league cricket in equal measure and, in his time, been a Saturday Captain; a part-time Captain and a stand-in Captain, as well as a Committee Member.

However, Alick's principal forte is his successful track record in repairing and renovating decrepit, damaged and badly-maintained sightscreens and score boxes on a pittance; and escaping by the skin of his teeth being named Club Member of the Year.

An outstanding illustrator and graphic designer by profession, Alick took up cricket photography seriously in 1996, covering, mainly - but not exclusively - rank and file recreational league, non-league and junior club matches. It is in following the latter, that he has become increasingly concerned that, although there are many clubs with highly successful junior sections - particularly in the lower reaches of the game - and much junior cricket is played, for some reason very few youngsters in these clubs continue on to play senior cricket.

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, Naval Heeramaneck has been in general practice as a sole practitioner since 1970 specialising in small and medium sized companies and has numerous international clients. He became involved with the creation of the Community Cricket Consortium in September 2005 and organised the incorporation of its two constituent companies, International Community Cricket Trust Limited (ICCT) and On-Side Cricket Limited (OSCL). More recently, Naval has worked closely with Bates, Wells & Braithwaite, the Consortium's lawyers, to obtain International Community Cricket Trust's registered charity status. Naval Heeramaneck is also the Finance Director of OSCL.

A native Devonian from an active sporting family - rugby, tennis, golf, hockey and representative swimming - Jeanne worked for the Kuwait Oil Company as a Supervisor in the Export Department before taking up the post of Senior Medical Secretary in a major hospital; a position she held for 26 years.

In 1997 she joined the Club Cricket Conference as PA to the Chief Executive, in which role, for the following 10 years, she was responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the Conference - including its links with its sister Conferences, the Midlands Club Cricket Conference and the League Cricket Conference - and the administration of the accounts of its c1,500 member clubs. From this experience she has gained considerable insight into the nature, general structure, governance and politics of non-professional recreational/ community club cricket at all levels throughout England and Wales.

A seasoned British diplomat with many years experience of operational delivery, policy and contact-making both in Whitehall and abroad, Nick Carter's career has featured a number of business and aid-related positions, including a spell with an international bank. He returned to the UK to take up a pre-retirement, London-based, senior post with the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) in October 2006 after three and a half years as Deputy-Governor in Bermuda. Before Bermuda, his 40+ years' career with the Foreign Office took him to the Far East, South Asia, and across Europe, including the pre-Soviet communist states of Eastern Europe. Not all his postings have been in countries where cricket is normally played - although he did enjoy the experience of scoring a century at the Bombay Gymkhana; and of playing in Malaysia with and against David Gower and the late Fred Trueman.

For 10 years Anita worked in the Welfare Section of the Personnel Department of United Africa Company (a subsidiary of Unilever) organising training programmes. In 1973, jointly with her husband a landscape gardener - she set up 'Junglemania' a company supplying and maintaining plants, shrubs and floral displays for the offices and grounds of corporate and commercial organisations, including construction companies, banks etc. Following the death of her husband in a car accident, Anita sold 'Junglemania' and helped set up 'Tropical Places', a travel company specialising in custom-organised overseas holidays and tours that became so successful it was subsequently bought out by a much larger competitor for a significant sum.

Anita has a long-standing personal association with East Grinstead Sports Club - her first husband was a member of the East Grinstead Hockey Club First XI and an England International - where she was instrumental in setting up the Junior Section of the Hockey Club that now has over 200 members and plays in an annual international tripartite tournament with Rouen and Hamburg. East Grinstead Sports Club also boasts a successful, independent, cricket academy for youngsters from both Surrey and Sussex.

Anita subsequently married Tony Bastable, the former Presenter of the children's television programme 'Magpie' and founder of The Magpies Cricket Club. Sadly, Tony died in 2007.

Currently, Anita is PA to the Head of Fonthill School, an independent cricket-playing private school in East Grinstead.