Hi, I don't know if Alleyn and Honour Oak that play at Alleynians on Burbage Road do under 5s but we've had a bad experience with them at under 9 level. They have a very short season (April until July) and charge ?120 membership. Another parent told us that the short season is because 'they cater mostly for private school boys and the parents tend to have holiday homes so they don't run fixtures through the holidays'. The organisers didn't tell us that the season was so short and let us sign our son up in June so that effectively we paid ?30 a session for the four remaining sessions we had access to (one was rained off)! In addition the fixtures seem really only to be for the prep school boys who play at school and therefore have already had coaching. If you are looking for a club that will coach and bring on a kid who doesn't already play cricket then I suggest you look elsewhere. Someone else recommended the club opposite Harvester, we'll be looking at that one next time!
