The Sports
Savings Guys.

Tom takes an active interest in helping sports clubs identify energy reduction funding opportunities. Tom has another consultancy working with around 400 community clubs in the funding domain, and has been involved at his hometown cricket club, Clitheroe CC for the last 30 years, initially as a player, but more recently following in the footsteps of his family as part of the committee.

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Tom has taken up various voluntary roles at Clitheroe CC, including cricket chairman. Having been fortunate to work as part of a team to marry on the field and off field success, Tom has developed and grown social media accounts to over 7,000 followers, initiated and helped to organise community events including a Gin Festival (raising over £6,000), Bonfire Night (£13,000+ raised), negotiated bar deals, and helped enable the development of the club's facilities through grant funding and other sources of income. It is the club's own success, with circa £300,000 raised through grant funding, growth to over 200 Juniors and 6 Senior teams, alongside as a quadrupling of social memberships and bar turnover, that inspired Tom to explore how we could help other community clubs and groups.

 

Away from sport, Tom is a keen learner, having studied Organisational Psychology at MSc level and through a PhD at the University of Nottingham. Prior to setting up his other business - TJB Sports Consultancy, Tom lectured in statistics and led research projects pertaining to the lives of children with intellectual disabilities, and their families, at The University of Warwick.

 

In his spare time Tom enjoys spending time with his partner and family, and travelling.

Chris helps sports clubs to identify and implement energy and cost savings solutions. He has spent most of his professional career working in sport most notably as a Performance Coach with Middlesbrough, Man City, and Blackburn Rovers FC male senior teams and Manchester United FC women’s senior team. Since leaving professional sport in 2021 he has retrained as an energy consultant and supported sports clubs aiming to reduce their grid energy reliance.

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Chris has also keenly participated in a variety of sports including football, as a Clitheroe Wolves and Clitheroe FC youth player, as a junior cricketer with Ribblesdale Wanderers, and as a runner for Ribble Valley Runners completing a number of marathons and ultra-marathons for charity.

 

His passion for sport extends to the community with a voluntary role as Coach Education Officer for Ribble Valley Runners. Since its inception in April 2021 he’s helped the running club grow from zero members to over 100 active runners in less than a year. He also coaches his sons U7’s Langho FC team.

 

Chris studied for a Bachelor in Science at Liverpool John Moores and a Masters in Philosophy at Teesside University. Along with this education Chris has always been a keen researcher publishing several research articles in the sport science arena.

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In his spare time Chris is the proud father of 2 children who love nothing more than going to watch Clitheroe FC or Clitheroe Cricket Club and share in our passion for sport.