The World Croquet Federation (WCF) is committed by its objectives to developing the sport of croquet around the world, and to assisting its members as they develop the game in their respective countries. The WCF Development Programme, complements and supports the WCF Objective of "employing funds of the Federation as may be deemed appropriate" and provides a consistent source of support for all WCF Members, whereby, subject to these regulations, it entitles each WCF Member and Confederation to loans or grants of WCF resources for the purpose of developing croquet in their part of the world.

The WCF Development Programme falls under the auspices of the WCF Development Committee under the supervision of the WCF Management Committee. With these regulations, and with input from all involved parties, we will be able to reach our objectives in a quicker and more efficient manner.

These WCF Development Regulations have been approved by the WCF Management Committee to guide the whole programme. They will control the relationship between WCF, the national associations, confederations, and the WCF Development offices around the world in all matters relating to the ambitious WCF Development Programme. Under the terms of these regulations, national associations are deemed to be those members of WCF duly admitted to membership in accordance with Rule 2 of the WCF Rules.

The Regulations contain information on the objectives, selection criteria, procedure, rights, duties, and the financial aspects of the WCF Development Programme.

They are intended to increase transparency regarding the use of funds, facilitate good governance principles, and encourage long-term planning for WCF Members and the Confederations. Combined with the diligence and daily work of the WCF Development Committee, WCF Members and the Confederations, it will positively support the planning and development of croquet - in the pursuit of excellence!

 

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Volunteers

The WCF is embarking on a major new initiative, the “WCF Development Programme”.

Applications for the funding of likely projects are now being actively sought from WCF Member Associations.

In anticipation of the response, WCF now needs to recruit people with suitable qualifications and expertise that can be used to fulfil the following roles:-

Coaches and Examining Referees of Association and Golf Croquet suitably qualified in their own WCF Member Association. Ideally they should be fluent in one or more language other than their own native tongue.

The purpose is to facilitate visits to other member nations to coach, train and examine their nationals to a suitable standard to become coaches and referees operating in the developing nation.

Any person with the skills, qualifications, time and inclination should forward a CV or Resume to the WCF Secretary-General.

All posts will be unpaid and will involve a commitment of providing their time free. However, where necessary, all transport costs will be paid via the WCF Development Programme. Other costs may be payable subject to local agreement with the relevant WCF Member Association although it is envisaged that no costs will be incurred by the volunteer.

 

• China - A promotional visit - 2008
• Germany - Association Laws Course - 2008
• England - Association Laws Course - 2007
• Italy - Golf Croquet Coaching - 2006
• Germany - Association Croquet Coaching - 2006

Italian Croquet Federation Golf Croquet Coaching Course 2006

The WCF Development Programme gets off to a good start

UK based croquet coach, Michael Hague, spent last week end near the magnificent city of Milan, in Lombardy, Italy, but he was not just drinking the Barolo from nearby Piedmont or sampling Osso Buco.

Instead, he had given up his free time to act a coach and leader to an Italian Croquet Federation Golf Croquet Course.

The course consisted of a Friday evening teaching selected Italian players the rudiments of becoming coaches, a Saturday of them then teaching others under his supervision and finally, a Sunday mini-competition to test what they all had learned.

Michael, a retired army Brigadier, said, “The whole week-end was a great success and will undoubtedly play a part in the development of the Italian Federation towards coaching self sufficiency.

Deutscher Krocket Bund Association Croquet Coaching Course

9-10th June 2006

• Report
• Photographs

Report by Joern Vinnen (President of the Deutscher Krocket Bund)

Earlier this month, fourteen participants from as far as Berlin and the Westerwald (450 km distant) found their way to the three privately owned lawns of the Oldenburger Croquetfreunde at Ellens close to Wilhelmshaven, Germany to attend an Association Croquet Coaching Course.

Most of the players had experience in Golf Croquet though only a few ever played Association; a fact that was due to change during the weekend to come.

It was world class player, Colin Irwin, who most generously spent three days of his time at Ellens and the WCF that helped to sponsor the project through the WCF Development Programme.

Although the concepts of Association Croquet were not always easy to grasp, it was fun to come & to play, especially since each of the players was highly motivated and eager to learn. All the players were excited to try to play a break themselves. Blue sky, 25 C, carefully prepared lawns, good food and drink and an excellent dinner in the nearby hotel Friesische Wehde added to the demanding but very patient coaching experience that Colin provided to the future Association Croquet Champions.

All the players found it helpful that Colin spoke German throughout the weekend and by the end of Sunday, the participants started to believe Colin when repeating over and over: "If you do all the shots correctly there is not a single difficult shot - it's easy !" Coaching and practise went on until sunset, and the good mood, food and drink also played a part. As usual at Ellens, this was provided by Dr. Frank Rothe and his wife Claudia and the Saturday evening ended with a delicious dinner for all who had worked so hard all day long.

After a short-tournament on Sunday the coaching ended on Sunday evening with all players getting a nice handcrafted certificate of participation.

Everybody went home, hungry for more, and it is to hope that the fruits of this coaching will be seen soon on the national level.

All participants, as well as Deutscher Krocket Bund thank Colin, Dr. Rothe and his team and the WCF Development Programme for their enormous efforts. It's a busy time for the Deutscher Krocket Bund. Next weekend the German AC Championships are played in Schifferstadt and on 21/23rd July there is fully booked International German Open GC in Hamburg with players from 3 continents. On 2-3rd September, Germany play a test match against Sweden in Hamburg, whilst in May 2007, the Czech-Morovian CA will play a challenge match.

Joern Vinnen, chairman of the German Croquet Association (left), Murat Ueranuez, Patrick Gottschalk (back), Nina Mesecke (front), Rainer Kaltenthaler (back), Peter Eckford-Jones (front), Sven-Olaf Jung (back), Priska Vinnen (front), Iris Stadie (back) Dr. Eberhard Zeh (back), Christine Abendroth (front), Dr. Frank Rothe (kneeling), Sieglinde Zeh (back) Colin Irwin (right).

Colin Irwin (left) , Sieglinde Zeh, Priska Vinnen, Dr. Eberhard Zeh, Nina Mesecke, Sven-Olaf Jung, Christine Abendroth, Peter Eckford-Jones (right).

Sieglinde Zeh (left), Colin Irwin, Dr. Eberhard Zeh, Nina Mesecke, Sven-Olaf Jung, Christine Abendroth, Peter Eckford-Jones, Dr. Frank Rothe, Iris Stadie, Patrick Gottschalk, Murat Ueranuez, Rainer Kaltenthaler (right).

Colin Irwin (coach), Joern Vinnen (Chairman), Claudia Rothe (host), Dr. Frank Rothe (host).

Croquet Association Association Croquet Laws Course

17th - 18th March 2007

Photographs

Media Report

This last week-end saw a Laws Course for budding referees being held at Bowdon, England.

Under the Directorship of Barry Keen, the course was designed to introduce the finer points of the laws of croquet to players and then, if they wished, to move on to taking a referees examination.

Joining in this process was the World Croquet Federation, who had kindly been given places for non UK players to attend and had subsequently subsidised their travel.

Taking up this opportunity were two players from Sweden, Simon Carlsson and Ulf Söderberg and three from Norway, Roar Michalsen, Birger Stene and the Norwegian CA President, Tore Gulbrandsen.

There are no qualified referees in Sweden or Norway at this time.

The British weather of a cold wind and hail made them all feel at home. The course lasted two full days with classroom discussion on the Laws, on the lawn demonstrations of the finer points and practical hints and tips on refereeing shots and decision making.

The WCF would like to thank Barry Keen, the English North West Federation of Croquet Clubs for arranging the course, local hosts Colin and Chris Irwin and Ian Lines for their hospitality and the Bowdon Club for use of their facilities.

The WCF hope to continue an involvement in future laws courses for its membership. In the pipeline, is the formation of two WCF Referees Committees, for Association and Golf Croquet, to oversee best practice and achieve referee training consistency around the croquet playing world.

Plans have already been laid to host a Laws Course in Norway later this year, with another in Germany in 2008.

Where on the yard-line?

 

Deutscher Krocket Bund Association Croquet Laws Course

2008

• Report
• Photographs

Report by Joern Vinnen (President of the Deutscher Krocket Bund)

The WCF Development Programme saw another boost to its popularity earlier this year with the holding of a two day Association Croquet Laws Course in Dalum, Germany.

Hosted by Eberhardt Zeh on behalf of the Deutscher Krocket Bund (DKB), it brought together the course tutor, Examining Referee, Martin Murray of England and a total of 10 students of the game. All were eager to learn the intricacies of the Laws and the methods of applying them which consisted of theoretical situations and practical demonstrations.

President of the DKB, Joern Vinnen, said, "I would like to thank the WCF personally for the support in our recently finished "Referees Coaching" project in Germany. Deutscher Krocket Bund has now three approved referees which is a big step forward in achieving a Croquet infrastructure as it should be.
Already yesterday I thanked Martin Murray for his marvellous and effective efforts in this project. He came here twice and travelled most of the country just to test the three of us last week - this was more than anyone could have expected and we are deeply grateful for this. We have a better understanding of the rules now - let's just hope that the quality of our games will follow soon."

WCF too would like to thank Martin Murray for his dedication to this project which aims to ultimately have at least one player in each WCF member association with a referee qualification.

The three successful new referees are:- Bruno Hess, Joern Vinnen and Alexander Kirsten.

Photographs by Dr. Frank Rothe.

Students attending the course.

Left to right - Wolfgang Usbeck, Eberhardt Zeh (host of the coaching), Bruno Hess (now approved as referee), Dr. Frank Rothe, Joern Vinnen (now approved as referee), Martin Zander, Martin Murray (coach), Alexander Kirsten (now approved as referee), Sven-Olaf Jung, Peter Ockelmann, Albert Schweickhardt.

Martin Murray gets down to basics

Martin Murray and the laws finer points

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China - A promotional visit - 2008

In October 2008, a delegation from the WCF, led by WCF President, David Openshaw visited China to promote the sport.

This followed an invitation to play a part in the "Hurun Report" 2008 celebrations in Shanghai, China and was assisted by the involvement of Jaques Sports Goods Manufacturers.

David Openshaw maintained a blog of the visit which is reproduced below:-

21st October 2008

The World Croquet Federation has been invited to demonstrate croquet in Shanghai, China.  The opportunity came out of the blue only six weeks ago but has been received with enthusiasm.

Together with Amir Ramsis and Khaled Younis of Egypt, President of the WCF, David Openshaw are to give demonstrations of the Golf and Association variants to an invited audience of Chinese Businessmen who will be attending a four day Chinese “Hurun Report Rich List” convention.

It will take place at the Dongjiao State Guest House in Shanghai (23/24 Oct with a second venue at the Nine Dragons Hill Polo Club (25/26 Oct, where Hurun Report have a VIP tent for the Royal Salute Polo Gold Cup  - an International two day polo tournament.

At both events two grass croquet lawns have been prepared.

A real step into the unknown. Follow the regular blog reports of David Openshaw, President, World Croquet Federation at www.CroquetWorld.com

22nd October 2008

Today (actually probably nearer two days in fact, given flight delays and the crossing of the International Date Line) has been a mixture of good news and bad  news. But I have arrived safely in Shanghai and met up with Haiyan He of Jaques, who has already been of great
help.

I started out on Tuesday afternoon and boarded my flight to Shanghai at 2pm. The good news was that the plane was only about 20% full in economy so I was able to have four seats to myself and was looking forward to a long sleep on the 11-hour flight.
 
Now the bad news:
The plane taxied to the runway, but just before it was to take off the pilot announced there was a problem with the computer and we had to return to the gate.
Whilst this was being fixed the pilot explained that the plane was being refuelled. It had used two tonnes of fuel taxi-ing to the runway. (Anybody know what miles per gallon an Airbus does on the ground?)
 
The second attempt to leave, now one hour late, was even less successful. We must have travelled only a hundred metres before returning to the gate again.
 
After another three hours we eventually left, with many passengers furious that Virgin had not provided any food during the four-hour delay. This would not have happened with my favourite airline Ryanair. They would have sold us some!
 
Soon after take off, I decided to play chess against the games console in the seat back. I was playing brilliantly - sacrificing first a pawn, then a knight and then a queen for a rook with a great position. I could tell the computer was getting nervous as its red light was flickering wildly. Then more bad news: It played a rather simple move which I did not ancitipate, and all was lost.
 
I always find the flight path of interest as it’s not always predictable. Earlier this year when I was going to South Africa for the Golf Croquet World Championships from Sydney, I had expected we would fly across Australia, leaving the coast somewhere south of Perth. Anyway, the pilot apologised for a slight delay but said the good news was that he had Senior Flight
Lieutenant Tom Hughes on the flight deck and he knew a short cut!! So we would arrive on time. The route he planned was to travel south over Tasmania, then follow the coast of Antarctica before arriving in Johannesburg.

And that's the way we went.

For the trip to Shanghai, we crossed Northern Denmark, then Stockholm, went well north of St Petersburg (I much prefer Leningrad) then over Irkutsk, Mongolia and slightly west of Beijing. So after I had slept well and eventually been fed I arrived safely in Shanghai.
 
I was met by Haiyan He of Jaques, who drove us to the hotel which will be the host to the first two days of croquet. We started to do some of the planning of the layout and received the good news from our hosts Hurun Report that China National Sports channel will televise
some on the croquet on Saturday.

That’s all for now, as I promised some good news some bad news.  As you see, most of it is good.

23rd October 2008

Today is the first of four days where we are involved in showing croquet to guests of the Hurun Report.

Hurun Report is celebrating the anniversary of its tenth annual China Rich List with a four-day event in Shanghai. Today's function is an awards dinner for outstanding people in the arts, entertainment and fashion businesses and around 100 journalists.

We demonstrated croquet for one hour as pre-dinner entertainment along with companies showing exclusive products such as cars (Porsche), power boats, and exclusive jewellery.   

I gave a short speech to the journalists present for the award ceremony, which was translated by Haiyan of Jaques. The speech highlighted the tradition of croquet, its links with Wimbledon and Jaques together with a flavour for the growth of croquet. I introduced three-time World Champion Khaled Younis . I outlined recent expansion of croquet around the world and said I hoped to see the introduction of croquet into China and particularly Shanghai.

I talked about the business opportunity provided by the building of croquet lawns and how the World Croquet Federation could help.  We tried at every opportunity to put a mallet into guest's hands so they could try the game for themselves. We had copies available of Hurun's October Magazine which contained eight pages of croquet (in Chinese, of course) including explanations of both Association Croquet and Golf Croquet. We made sure that those who tried croquet were given the magazine. After the croquet there was dinner for about 500 people. A great occasion with around twelve courses. I wasn't sure exactly what I was eating but it all tasted very good. I started by using chop sticks but had to revert to knife, fork and spoon to keep up with the arrival of all the courses.

Earlier in the day we had made some more arrangements for the demonstration of croquet to be televised on Saturday, including producing a scoreboard which will certainly help to promote croquet as a serious sport.

The support of Jaques and particularly Haiyan has been invaluable. So I think it was a good day, with some more strong publicity and a number of valuable contacts made.

24th October 2008

Today we attended the second day of the Hurun Report 10th Anniversary Celebration. The day began with the Entrepreneurs' Summit with around 500 guests made up of international business leaders, 200 individuals from the China Rich List and government officials. Speakers talked on a number of topics including the thirtieth anniversary of the Open Door Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility, building a brand, development of the finance sector, development of the middle-class and the next ten years of the private sector.

The day concluded with the Hurun Ten-Year Awards presented at the gala dinner to the ten most influential people of China's private sector over the past decade.

In the pre-dinner reception from 6pm to 7pm we again demonstrated croquet and a number of guests participated in running hoops. They were given copies of the eight page article in Chinese explaining the history and traditions of the game together with a description of both versions of croquet and contact details of both the WCF and Jaques of London. We were encouraged by the level of interest.

The dinner and awards ceremony were televised throughout. It was a very exciting and vibrant affair. We made further new contacts during the dinner.

I mentioned yesterday that I wasn't sure in some cases what I was eating. Tonight I asked about one course and was surprised to find out I wasn't alone. There was great debate which was unresolved about whether the dish was a kind of mushroom or seafood. It established that the best approach was just to eat it and not ask questions!

Tomorrow is the first of two days at the Nine Dragons Hill Polo Club, which is about an hour's drive south of Shanghai. Croquet will be available to guests of Hurun Report from 10am to 4pm. We expect to see many people for a second time in a more relaxed atmosphere, where we'll be able to follow up their initial interest in a more intensive way.

25th October 2008

Today, action focussed on the Nine Dragons Hill Polo Club which was hosting an International Challenge Polo Match between teams from the Commonwealth and South America.

We travelled with other guests of Hurun Report from the Hotel in Shanghai south to the Nine Dragons Hill Polo Club by coach. We reached an impressive development on the coast which will include private residences, a hotel Resort, and many sports facilities including 27 hole golf course, tennis and of course Polo. Many of these facilities are currently under construction.

In the morning there was a Ladies Polo match won by the Hurun Team. During the lunch interval there were a number of activities including our demonstration croquet match. This took place on the Polo ground immediately outside the Hurun Report spectator area.

For those not so familiar with Polo the ground is very large. I would say at least four football pitches in size. It is normal for there to be a commentary of each match broadcast to spectators to help them follow the play.  During our demonstration croquet match we were fortunate to be able to introduce the game to the entire crowd through a short commentary introduction. Then later I gave a live commentary of the action for about five minutes. 

The match was televised by CCTV5 the national Sports Channel who were there to televise the Polo. Later I was also interviewed by this channel. So we received some very good publicity for croquet. The first time we have had a potential 1.3 billion viewers for our sport.

For the record Khaled Younis beat Amir Ramsis 7-4 in the demonstration match.

There was also a lawn available close by the Hurun corporate area where their guests could try out the Sport. I had a short game against an eight year old who was at Summer Fields School in Oxford where he plays croquet. We played a short one ball Association Croquet match and he told me croquet was very popular at his school.

The main Polo match in the Afternoon was an exciting 5 -5 draw with the trophy shared. 

As we were waiting in our coach to start the return journey to our hotel Haiyan of Jaques suggested we gave a little speech to our captive audience about croquet. So we did this with Haiyan translating what I had to say and then we both answered questions from any of our fellow guests. 

So this was another very successful day for us in showing croquet to China.

26th October 2008

I'm writing this report after a lovely Shanghainese Breakfast. Here's what I ate: Congee, Radish Pancake, Pickled Vegetables, Spring Rolls, Preserved Mustard Root with Sesame Oil, Soya bean milk, and Chinese green tea. Very healthy!!

So it was back to the Nine Dragons Hill Polo Club for the Finals of the Polo sponsored by Royal Salute (the famous export whisky brand) and more opportunity for guests of the Hurun Report to play croquet. The weather was still warm about 20degrees C but still very cloudy. There was again a very good level of interest in playing croquet.

I had two interesting conversations during the afternoon, one with a residential property company based in Shanghai and one with an hotel owner from Beijing. Both were interested in investing in croquet lawns. I presented to them a specially prepared slide show of photographs on my lap top. This showed croquet and croquet lawns from around the world including Wimbledon, Hurlingham, Roehampton, Gezirah (Cairo), Busto Arsizio (Italy), Carrickmines, NCC Florida, Meadowood, Pinehurst and Karlovy Vary(Czech). I wanted them to understand exactly what good quality croquet lawns looked like since our demonstrations have all been on quite rough grass surfaces.

So we have had very good response and there is a lot of work to do now to follow up on the interest expressed.

I also found out during the day that croquet was being translated into Chinese as gate ball. Now gate ball is an existing well established sport played mainly in Japan but also in China. It’s usually played on a hard surface (not grass) with three hoops and a peg between two teams of five. So I said this was not the correct way to translate croquet and will have some further discussions on how best to translate it.

Also during my discussions the issue of use the word golf to describe a form of croquet was brought up since it was leading as you can imagine to some confusion. We will need to look into this topic again in relation to promoting croquet and translating our terminology into other languages.

Tomorrow I will post a summary of my visit.

27th October 2008

After a hectic and tiring four days in Shanghai, I now have time to review everything that happened and make an assessment of actual prospects for helping the Chinese get Association Croquet started and identify some useful next steps.

First, some general impressions of China and Shanghai in particular: It's a great city, moving ahead at a frenetic pace, lively and thriving because young people have the opportunity to be successful.  Western fashions and leisure activities are extremely popular and setting the future trends. Building is continuing at a remarkable rate.  Its definitely the land of opportunity.

I'm greatly encouraged about the chances of introducing croquet into China because of the strong relationship we have developed with the Hurun Report and in particular their Chairman Rupert Hoogewerf and President Sinclair Lu.  Rupert has played some garden croquet in the past and has visited the Southwick Club on one occasion. Both men are very enthusiastic about the game and pleased with the response of their guests to our demonstrations at their various corporate events during our four days in Shanghai.
 
There is a lot of work to do over the coming months to follow up all the leads.  My experience in China has shown me that within our existing croquet world we have much work to do to improve the way we promote the game, particularly to the non English-speaking countries.  Even in English-speaking countries, in order to learn Association Croquet you have to learn both a new game and a new language!  It can be confusing to learn about croquet strokes, roquets, one back, rover, and peels, etc.

Brian Storey and I needed to put together a summary of how to play Association Croquet without using these words, so that it could be translated into Chinese.  I'm sure that with more time we could have produced a better, more concise version. The importance of improving the clarity of our message about croquet is one of the main lessons of our China visit. 

With regard to specific development opportunities, a number of residential property companies have expressed interest in incorporating croquet lawns on their properties.  A goal of the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 is to present a "green image" of China, so a few croquet lawns might help.  Hotels are another source of possible development and although multi-sports clubs are rather thin on the ground right now, luxurious private clubs like the Nine Dragons Hill Polo club might want to invest in their own croquet lawns.
 
There is also the possibility of getting investment on the back of holding a top level event in China - perhaps even a world championship.  One idea put to me is that one of the smaller cities might be more interested in hosting a World Championship in croquet than Shanghai. The Grand Prix and a top PGA Golf event are already held in Shanghai, so maybe croquet could not compete with those more mainstream events.   But "smaller" cities, with populations of only 5 million (!) might welcome the opportunity to host a World Class Event of their own.  
 
We will let you all know how we are progressing with all these development opportunities.

We are much in debt to the Hurun Report for inviting us to come to their event.  See www.hurun.net for a report of the events at the Polo club, including croquet. The Chinese version of the website contains a good photo of one of the guests playing croquet. Also thanks to Jaques of London and in particular Joe Jaques and Haiyan He for their valuable help in staging this demonstration. 

A clip of the China TV coverage can be viewed at:-

http://sports.cctv.com/20081027/105072.shtml

The person interviewed is Rupert Hoogewerf, Chairman of Hurun Report. He is a keen Garden croquet player and as you will hear, fluent in Mandarin Chinese.   

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From	Date	For	Progress
Norges Croquetforbund (Norway Croquet Association)	4th March 2010	10,000 Euro to develop a four lawn facility	Application currently under consideration
Asociace ceskomoravskėho kroketu (Czech-Moravian Croquet Association)	1st September 2009	250GBP To defray costs of travel for playing and coaching purposes of a student player during the FEC European AC Team Championship 2009	Awarded £250 (GBP) on 1st September 2009.
Suomen Krokettiliitto (Finland Croquet Association)	9th June 2009	500GBP To defray costs of travel for coaching purposes during WCF European Team Championship 2009	Application withdrawn due to non attendance at event
Japan Croquet Association	1st March 2009	2000GBP To defray costs of purchase of equipment for coaching purposes	Awarded £1600 (GBP) on 29th March 2009.
Egypt Croquet Federation	20th February 2009	5000GBP To defray costs of developing two lawns in Cairo.	Awarded £5000 (GBP) on 7th March 2009 subject to conditions. This application has been subsequently withdrawn.
Suomen Krokettiliitto (Finland Croquet Association)	16th April 2008	500GBP To defray costs of translating Laws and Rules of the Games into the Finnish language.	Awarded £500 (GBP) on 21st April 2008
(Austrian Croquet Association)	10th May 2007	400Euro Cost of production of coaching manual in the German language	Awarded €400 (Euro) on 30th May 2007
(Austrian Croquet Association)	10th May 2007	150GBP Assistance for coaching AssociationCroquet in 2007	Awarded £75 (GBP) on 30th May 2007
(Norwegian Croquet Association)	14th May 2007	1650GBP To defray costs of entering their first team tournament: WCF European Team Championship 2007	Awarded £550 (GBP) on 30th May 2007
Suomen Krokettiliitto (Finland Croquet Association)	28th March 2007	500GBP To defray costs of entering their first team tournament: WCF European Team Championship 2007	Awarded £415 (GBP) on 11th April 2007
Deutscher Krocket Bund (German Croquet Association)	3rd February 2007	250GBP Assistance for a referees coaching course in 2008	Awarded £250 (GBP) on 23rd February 2007
Deutscher Krocket Bund (German Croquet Association)	3rd February 2007	250GBP Assistance for coaching AssociationCroquet in 2007	Awarded £250 (GBP) on 23rd February 2007
Svenska Croquetförbundet (Swedish Croquet Association)	27th January 2007	152GBP Assistance in attending Laws Course in the UK.	Awarded £152 (GBP) on 12th February 2007
Norges Croquet Forbund (Norwegian Croquet Association)	29th January 2007	382GBP Assistance in attending Laws Course in the UK.	Awarded £382 (GBP) on 12th February 2007
Federazione Italiana Sport Croquet (Italian Croquet Federation)	17th December 2005	350Euro Assistance for coaching Golf Croquet in 2006.	Awarded €350 (Euro) on 5th January 2006
Federazione Italiana Sport Croquet (Italian Croquet Federation)	17th December 2005	2750Euro To pay for shortfall of income in promotional croquet tournament in 2005	Declined due to it being a retrospective application.
Federazione Italiana Sport Croquet (Italian Croquet Federation)	17th December 2005	3000Euro To production of Promotional Croquet DVD	Awarded €1000 (Euro) on 5th January 2006
Deutscher Krocket Bund (German Croquet Association)	10th November 2005	Assistance for coaching AssociationCroquet in 2006	Awarded £250 (GBP) on 5th December 2005