Ready for a career in coaching?

Be your own boss, with Tom Flowers Cricket Coaching behind you all the way

Do you want to be a cricket coach, but find the prospect of preparing to make the jump into business too daunting?

Tom Flowers Cricket Coaching has done all that for you. They give you the framework – the platform, the business model, the e-commerce, the website, the spreadsheets, the sessions and the drills, even sourcing coaching equipment – everything allowing you to do what you love best… coach.

After making the life-changing decision to hand in his notice at one of the top UK cricketing schools, Sherborne, in 2015, the former Leicestershire 2nd XI and Dorset batsman started up his organisation three years ago. Now studying his Level 4 coaching qualification along with Marcus Trescothick, Alex Gidman and James Tredwell, he has his own team of full-time coaches working under him.

Already prominent in the Leicestershire and Rutland area, and with excursions into Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire, they want to extend their passion for high-quality local coaching on a national scale.

They are looking for professional, hard-working and flexible people to come on board, ideally those looking for a career post-cricket; school masters looking for a career change or additional holiday income from running or employing coaches to run summer and winter holiday camps; or just someone who is serious about their coaching and looking for a new challenge.

Indeed, Tom, 30, himself took this route, moving from full-time cricket coaching at Sherborne School, to a secondary income to supplement this, before making the decision to go full time with the business. This was at first supported by his then and current ECB performance-coaching role with the disability side, before growing the business to employ three other coaches full time as he does today.

"You will coach under your own name, giving you the freedom and own unique branding, but everything you need – the manuals, legal documents, all the support they would wish for, the lot – will be provided by TFCC Group Ltd. It took us four years to get to this stage, and we've loved every minute of the challenge. Yes, it has been two steps forward and one back often, but we've proven that our model can and does work, and we can help you skip many of these humps in the road.

“You will be all ready to go – whether it be the part-time or full-time package. This is a chance to broaden your horizons; you bring the coaching expertise and we then help develop your other skills using our proven model. We will give you the know-how…”

Tom was at Grace Road until he was 21, on the fringe of the first team. He also played for Loughborough MCCU and Dorset, before making the career change to coaching and becoming head of cricket at Clayesmore School for two years, then moving onto Sherborne for three. 

He believes the club scene is desperately seeking coaches who know what they are doing. “TFCC is currently working upwards of 23 clubs,” he said. “There is a huge amount of demand for high-quality, organised and structured coaching within clubs across the country. This is where our passion lies and is the unique selling point of our coaching programme.”

Tom names two coaches who have helped shape and inspire his coaching philosophy and outlook – Paul Nixon and Graham Dilley

“Paul has been very influential over the years. He has an amazing ability to relate to people. His enthusiasm and energy is unbelievable. He has been very supportive of the coaching venture and the work we have tried to do locally to support the county over the past three years."

“Graham showed the power of not offering advice for the sake of it, but when he said something, you listened, something I struggled with as a player under the coach at the time at Leicestershire,” said Tom.

Tom employs a fine team of coaches who are all qualified at least to Level 2 standard, including Ben Silver (Ex-Leics Women’s and Loughborough MCCU men’s coach), Jack Johnson (Leics U19s) Dave Brignull (Ex-Leics CCC), and ex-professionals Rob Taylor (Leics & Scotland) and Wes Durston (Somerset & Derbyshire) have or will run masterclasses in 2019.

Now they want the next generation of coaches to join them, being their own boss, but having Tom Flowers Cricket Coaching backing them up all the way…

For more details please contact Tom on 07815 647892, email coaching@tomflowerscricketcoaching.com or visit the website www.tomflowerscricketcoaching.com