"Good to Know"

There's a whole raft of matters which affect the way a sporting body (be it an association such as ACCSO, or a club such as any of our member-clubs) can operate in France. This section aims to try to provide pointers to formal bodies, to official sources of information, and to more general sources of information.

Pointers to official sites

  • FFBS (Fédération Française de Baseball, Softball).  Click here. Note especially the tabs for Textes Officiels and Documentation.  You can subscribe to the Lettre d'Information which summarises changes and new regulations.      Note also the contact details for your licensing issues!! Contact: Gilles BIZOT.   
  • Association Française de Cricket (aka France Cricket). New news specifically related to cricket. Go to the FC site (Click here) and download FC and ICC newsletters. Or go directly to the latest FC newsletter from here.
  • Ligue d'Aquitaine de Baseball Softball et Cricket. Click Here. 
  • Ligue Midi-Pyrénées de Baseball Softball et Cricket. Click here. 

Pointers to "useful" sites

  • "1901" Associations.

There are very many sites offering advice to clubs and associations, including models of constitutions, tips on fiscality, etc.  Most of them seem at first blush "free" but are not really so.   There are two government-inspired sites: service-public (from here); and le portail ministériel (from here).  And two targetted quasi-governmental sites: le guide pratique (from here); and  le portail des associations (from here).  The last site which was referenced from here no longer exists: sic transit gloria mundi! 

  • AngloInfo - a comprehensive guide, in English, to living in France, with indexes to service providers and all sorts of useful things.  Click here for Aquitaine; and here for Midi-Pyrénées coverage. 
  • The ICC Europe Newsletter is always interesting: issue 92 available (from here).
  • Cricinfo, the latest news of cricket world-wide, on-line. Click here.

The Aquitaine sports council has issued very helpful guidelines on how sporting events should be managed if we get another canicule.  ACCSO takes this class of advice very seriously and hopes that member clubs will do likewise, especially where children are concerned, on and off the field.  Start with this overviewof safety considerations on-site, a simple list of precautions. The next document reminds organisers that spectators are also at risk, and provides an escalation path, up to and including cancellation. This third document is aimed at players, including guidance on clothing and the need to drink to re-hydrate; not to mention warning signs of ill-health! And the final piece is aimed mostly at indoor events, but there are still supplementary hints for outdoors.

And on the lighter side, there's a new cartoon aid to explaining Kwik cricket, in French (see from here) in addition to the earlier comic cuts....

Version date: 4th October 2008.