Street20 - Taking cricket to the inner city

'Street20' Cricket is a fast moving game, designed to be played in crowded urban environments and using facilities such as five-a-side football pitches, basketball courts and sports halls.  Just take 2 bats, 2 sets of plastic stumps, a ball and 4-8 players and you’re ready to go!

We have helped set up 'Street20' programmes on housing estates all over London and a number of other cities in the UK.

We have also run over 100 training courses for sports coaches, police officers and youth workers so they can set up their own inner city cricket programmes.

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"Street20 is one of the most imaginative ways to enagage with players anywhere in the world today" - Steve Elworthy, ICC World Twenty20 Tournament Director

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Our work on the streets & in housing estates is based on five key principles:

1. Offering year round programmes to keep the players involved
2. Running programmes that are local to where players live
3. Offering regular competitions every half term and shool holiday's
4. Finding the next generation of coaches from within the programmes
5. Crucially, using the trust built up, to help those involved and make good choices
    about their future

(Head down to the bottom of this page and check out the 'Street20' rules and FAQ's)

'Street20' forms the basis of some our key programmes:

INNER CITY CRICKET WORLD CUP (ICWC)

The now annual Inner City World Cup, which began in 2005, gives young players from around London the chance to represent either England or the country of theirs or their parent’s birth. The event takes place each year in August at The Indoor School at the home of cricket, Lord's and the 2011 competition was won by Pakistan and was sponsored by INVESTEC.


Pakistan - ICWC Winners 2011

StreetChance

In early 2008 we started launched this initiative in the 15 London communities with the highest levels of youth crime. Marginalised young people get cricket coaching and competitions year round, encouraged to attend school and to talk with local police authorities. StreetChance is run in partnership with the Metropolitan Police, Chance to Shine and Barclays Spaces for Sports.

MEET JAFER

 
Jafer 'StreetChance Ambassador' of the Year Award 2011

Jafer is a member of the Southwark StreetChance team. Before he joined he programme the played a bit of cricket but not regularly and hadn't thought about his future.  Since getting involved, he's made new friends, has gone on to take part in our Apprenticeship scheme and is planning to become a cricket coach.

Jafer has also won several awards during his time with C4C and he is now a 'StreetChance Ambassador' and is regulalry involved in discussions about the long term strategy of the 'StreetChance' programme. 

'StreetChance' has opened Jafer's mind to a whole range of possibilities.

Sutton Girls ‘Streetchance’
In April 2010 we started a girl’s ‘Streetchance’ programme in Sutton. The Sutton prgogramme offers a place where girls from all different social groups and nationalities can come together to have fun in a safe environment. This is still the only girls 'Streetchance' project.

The Lord's Taverners

At the start of 2011, 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.

The partnership will extend the game’s reach beyond schools and clubs, making it accessible in 15 UK cities to 7,500 new young players through a nationwide network of 150 local community groups.

Using 'Street20', (and 'Hit the Top' and a 'StreetElite') programme (backed by the Berkeley Group) as the ways to reach the community groups mentioned.

If you want to get involved with any 'Street20' project or programme then get in touch with Adam Hall, Development Manager on adamhall@cricketforchange.org.  or on 0208 669 2177 

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