Our new Secretary to the Board, Dave Farebrother, comes to ECAD with a wealth of experience in sports administration. Dave took over as secretary in January this year but has more than fifty years of experience of running football clubs, from Sunday league up to to the Football League. Dave was Chairman of the Board at Sutton United when they won promotion into the Football League, but although he has now retired as a Director after twenty five years on the board he still enjoys a number of less demanding voluntary roles. He has also spent more than thirty years in cricket administration and is currently fixture secretary for his local team.

Dave recently sponsored one of Sutton United's Academy players and explains here why he chose do so in the name of ECAD:-

"Although my wife has no hearing in one ear, until I took on the secretarial role with ECAD I was blissfully unaware of the difficulties faced by deaf cricketers, not only during games but also the logistics around travel and coaching and the differences between deaf and pan-disability cricket that can sometimes make it difficult for deaf players to find suitable opportunities. Of course, ECAD exists to promote cricket to new players and to support established players but receives no direct funding. When the opportunity arose to sponsor one of Sutton United's young stars of the future it occured to me that this might be a small opportunity to promote the ECAD name more widely, so young defender Dan Urpens is sponsored "on behalf of the England Cricket Association for the Deaf". I am not expecting this to lead to a sudden flood of interested parties wanting to support ECAD, but if just one person or organisation comes forward to sponsor ECAD, it would be amazing."

If you would like to sponsor ECAD, please get in touch via the contact details on this website.

LINK  Dan Urpens - Sutton United Football Club