Since 2014, the Club Cricket Charity has developed its main charter of Funding Amateur Cricket, with support of projects both within the UK and across the world.

Its purpose is to promote community participation in healthy recreation by the playing of cricket and other sports capable of improving health. By forging relationships with a number of organisations which focus on the amateur and recreational game, The Charity has become a leading light in the cricket community and is now looked to for help and advice on the many issues which affect the game at its grassroots level.

In turn, The Charity depends on the generosity of its donors to continue to support the family of over 10,000 small organisations involved with cricket from the smallest wandering sides playing on council pitches and unaffiliated to any central body, through to the representatives of the County Boards and the ECB and Sport England. If they all had only 11 players each, then that represents around 110,000 participants – but of course there are many more affected by the pleasures and enjoyment of watching, volunteering, coaching and socialising which the game sustains.

We have developed a strong relationship in partnership the England and Wales Cricket Trust for the supply and distribution of portable defibrillators to cricketing organisations across the UK at a massive discount.  The service includes training, insurances, connection to local emergency services and post traumatic counselling.  Having already supplied over 250 portable defibrillators to cricket organisations over the country, The Charity intends to continue this activity with its supply partner, The Community Heartbeat Trust, for the foreseeable future.

We have given support to the Character Through Cricket organisation to a long-running programme in Kenya, and look forward to working with them in the UK during 2023

We have supported an amazing project, Alsama in the refugee camps of Lebanon where cricket is the central theme for the children to learn responsibilities and character.

We are giving our support to the work of the fledgling Wandering Cricket Association to try to ensure that those players and teams who still play the sport purely for the love of it can arrange their calendar by using grounds across the country.

We continue to attract funding for these and other projects from administrators of funds, trusts and foundations over the UK, during the most difficult economic difficulties to which we have ever been subjected.  We reserve the right to donate funds to any other sporting bodies and organisations which, in the opinion of the Trustees, fulfil the criteria implicit in our terms of reference from the Charity Commissioners.

Governmental and institutional funding for our projects has been over-used since the pandemic drained the Treasury for all the right reasons, but this does not reduce the need.