A partnership changing the face of inner city cricket across the UK’

Overview

At the start of 2011 two world-leading sports charities, Cricket for Change and The Lord’s Taverners, came together to build a new three-year programme to put cricket and sport for development at the centre of changing young people's lives.

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Street20

Based in or around housing estates seriously affected by gangs and youth crime, ‘Street20’ cricket provides a platform for young people to learn about making a positive impact in their own communities. 

Click here for more on the Street20 programme and LATEST NEWS - 'Newcastle pip Brighton to win Street20 Nationals'

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Hit The Top

Hit The Top (HTT) is a disability cricket programme that provides club-playing opportunities for young people (under 18) with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and/or visual impairment.  Through the joint venture partnership, HTT teams of young people with a disability from across the UK will play in local and national competitions for the very first time.

The planned sessions are building upon the proven success of HTT in the past. HTT certainly improves self-esteem, confidence and independent mobility skills.

Click here for more on the programme and LATEST NEWS - 'Harold Wood and Sussex crowned National Hit the Top Champs!'

Street Elite

Supported by the Berkeley Group, is a unique ‘training for work’ programme which uses shortened forms of cricket, rugby and football to inspire disengaged young people back into education, training or employment.

Time is also spent talking to players on the sidelines about the contentious issues that they face in life, how they feel and how they are going to go about dealing with these problems.

CHECK OUT HOW FREDDIE AT STREET ELITE!

Freddie Flintoff was fortunate enough to visit the "Street Elite" project recently, which uses sport to engage with excluded young Londoners, and help get them back into education or find work.



They are trained in sports coaching, before delivering a coaching programme in their chosen sport to other young people on a local housing estate. Freddie saw how even the most vulnerable young people can have a fighting chance in life if they get the support they need to help themselves.

Click here for more on the Street Elite Programme