Street20

'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 run programmes on housing estates and with community groups all over London over the last 3 years and we now lead the game. We have also run 24 training courses for sports coaches, Metropolitan Police Community Support Officers and youth workers showing them how to set up inner city youth cricket programmes.

We have helped set up 'Street 20' programmes in Liverpool, Jamaica, Sri Lanka and South Africa and set up a programme in Sierra Leone and Newcastle in late 2008.

In early 2008 we started a three year programme named ‘Street Chance’ in conjunction with ‘Barclays Spaces for Sports’, the ‘Metropolitan Police’, ‘Positive Futures’ and ‘Chance to Shine’ (the ‘Cricket Foundation’s’ national school/club link development programme). The three year programme is targeting ten areas of London with the highest levels of youth crime and disengagement which were selected by the ‘Metropolitan Police’.

Watch 'Street20' Cricket in action here!
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Some of our projects where we use 'Street20' include;

StreetChance
In early 2008 we started a three year programme named ‘Street Chance’ in conjunction with ‘Barclays Spaces for Sports’, the ‘Metropolitan Police’, ‘Positive Futures’ and ‘Chance to Shine’ (the ‘Cricket Foundation’s’ national school/club link development programme).

The three year programme is targeting ten areas of London with the highest levels of youth crime and disengagement which were selected by the ‘Metropolitan Police’.

The programme has been very successful in engaging marginalised young people in a year round programme of cricket coaching, competition and workshops aimed at building their skills and self confidence, ensuring they attend school and starting to develop a positive dialogue with their local police.

Inner City World Cup (ICWC)
Now in its 6th year our annual Inner City World Cup 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 at The Indoor School at the home of cricket, Lord's and the 2009 competition was won by the West Indies and was sponosred by INVESTEC.

Take Back the Streets
This Cricket for Change event aimed to show young people living near to ‘Murder Mile’ one of the capital’s most dangerous streets how to get involved with a range of sports in their area. Run in conjunction with Hackney Police it gave young people the chance to try and then sign up for a summer long programme of cricket, football, boxing, athletics, rugby and tennis.

If you want to get involved with 'Street20' then get in touch with us at office@cricketforchange.org.uk or 0208 669 2177.