Cage Cricket Nominated for National Award
Cage Cricket are delighted to announce the nomination and shortlisting for the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Sport Awards. Cage Cricket have been nominated within the TSB COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AWARD.
Cage Cricket are delighted to announce the nomination and shortlisting for the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Sport Awards. Cage Cricket have been nominated within the TSB COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AWARD.
Cage 4 All CIC, in very close partnership with Awaaz Community Radio, West Itchen Community Trust, Ikan Trust and the people of the local community have been shortlisted for a major community project in the St Mary’s & Newtown areas of Southampton.
As the cricketers from Sri Lanka and Pakistan took centre stage around the country over the past few weeks, taking on their English hosts, in Surrey, Cage Cricket welcomed the Warsaw Hussars from Poland. Although the Hussars have visited Surrey previously, this would be the first occasion on which they had the opportunity to play Cage Cricket.
Against a backdrop more used to seeing the finest horses from all over the world perform, Cage Cricket landed firmly and squarely in Epsom as Surrey became the latest community to have a dedicated Cage Cricket team, following the likes of Hampshire, Oban and London in providing new opportunities for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to experience cricket.
Portsmouth Football Club’s community arm, Pompey in the Community (PITC), now has a Cage Cricket kit to use, thanks to a donation from Dr David Allen, a well-known Portsmouth resident and former University lecturer.
The launch of the “Not Out” programme by Dementia Friendly Hampshire and Bournemouth University’s Dementia Institute will research the impact of sport on dementia. The research will focusing on both those diagnosed and their families, while giving people the opportunity to play Cage Cricket.
A new Cage Cricket kit, funded by Southampton City Council’s Community Chest Grant’s Scheme, has now gone into St Mary’s – one of the most diverse and deprived communities in Southampton. The kit will be maintained by West Itchen Community Trust (WICT), based in Derby Road.
Cage Cricket has been shortlisted for a major national award: The Women’s Sport Trust #BeAGameChanger Awards, which recognises individuals and organisations doing the most to progress women’s sport. In particular, the award acknowledges the work by Sheromie Brewster in London and Barbados.
2015 was a good year for Cage Cricket, with the game receiving many awards. 2016 is off to a great start with a letter of endorsement from the International Cricket Council (ICC) after winning the ICC Development Award.