In December 2016, Cage Cricket South East was successful in their bid to be included in Active Surrey’s Get Active 50+ programme for 2017. The first Over 50s group started early in January 2017 at The Longmead Centre in Epsom & Ewell and quickly grew in popularity.
During the past few months Cage Cricket South East delivered a programme of Cage Cricket sessions with the pupils at Magna Carta School in Staines, funded by Sportivate and Active Surrey.
Cage Cricket are delighted to have forged close links with PHAB over the past six months, working specifically with the Epsom and the Watford Branches to deliver Cage Cricket.
BBC Radio Surrey recently did a segment on Cage Cricket, filmed at The Longmead Centre in Epsom. Cage Cricket is now officially part of Epsom & Ewell’s Active Surrey Get Active 50+ programme, with weekly sessions planned until the end of July.
Cage 4 All is proud to announce that Cage Cricket is now an accredited member of the Dementia Action Alliance for the Alzheimer’s Society, covering Southampton, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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.