Just a little extra to the Bentley - Forbes Rankings. County accounts for those counties organized as mutual companies can be obtained, free of charge, from https://mutuals.fca.org.uk/
As well as the accounts themselves the mutual counties file an annual return which includes the number of members at the end of the year. The table below summarises the information.
As well as the accounts themselves the mutual counties file an annual return which includes the number of members at the end of the year. The table below summarises the information.
| County | Members |
|---|---|
| Surrey | 9,547 |
| Nottinghamshire | 7,454 |
| Somerset | 6,250 |
| Lancashire | 5,194 |
| Yorkshire | 4,557 |
| Essex | 4,524 |
| Warwickshire | 3,597 |
| Gloucestershire | 3,589 |
| Kent | 3,212 |
| Worcestershire | 3,025 |
| Sussex | 2,770 |
| Glamorgan | 2,446 |
| Derbyshire | 1,926 |
| Leicestershire | 1,250 |
| Total | 59,341 |
I'm missing Hampshire, Northamptonshire and Durham, which aren't mutuals and Middlesex, which seems to have given up on filing accounts. I'd guess these four counties would have about 8,000 / 10,000 members between them so a total membership a few thousand shy of 70,000. If you assumed £200 per member that's an annual contribution to cricket of £14m before factoring in extras like parking and gong to away games. That's a decent amount of money. Much smaller than the ECBs profit share to the counties of £40m or so a year (which will go up sharply from 2020) but not the irrelevance some think.
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