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‘Cricket for Change goes ‘Beyond Sport’ in Chicago’
Sep 28, 2010
‘Cricket charity goes ‘Beyond Sport’ in Chicago’
Cricket for Change (C4C) Development Manager, Adam Hall, has been invited by 'StreetChance' programme partners, ‘Barclays Spaces for Sports’ to attend and take part in the 'Beyond Sport Summit' in Chicago.
Adam will be one of the experts sitting, alongside other global sporting organisations, on the Global Stimulus Panel - ‘Insights from Chicago and beyond’, which will be discussing issues and solutions on how to engage young people away from crime using sport. Here, Adam will talk about all the great work Cricket for Change does in changing young people’s lives in inner city London and beyond.
Other organisations attending this summit, which begins on the 29th September, will be UNICEF, England 2018 bid team, Comic Relief, the governing bodies of USA sports such as NFL, NBA and MLB. These are just a few of the hundred organisations attending this week.
Adam said;“It’s really exciting to go to the US and talk about all the great work we are doing on the 'StreetChance' programme.
As a charity we are very proud to be considered as the experts of engaging the hardest to reach groups through the power of cricket. Getting to network with some other amazing charities and organizations will be equally as great and I hope we can inspire other organizations to follow the same pattern of engagement we use at C4C so successfully”.
Adam has also been invited to a reception with the Mayor of Chicago and will spend a total of 5 days in the city giving his expert knowledge on engaging with hard to reach youth groups through power of sport as well as increasing the profile of the work of Cricket for Change.
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For all media enquiries please contact; Dominic Cotton, Media & Corporate Relations Manager, by mobile on 07767 686632 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting and by e-mail; dominiccotton@cricketforchange.org.uk
Notes to Editors:
- ‘Cricket for Change’ – “Using cricket to change the lives of disadvantaged young people" - have improved the lives of disadvantaged young people in London and worldwide for 30 years.
- 2011 is Cricket for Change’s 30th Anniversary.
- ‘Cricket for Change’ was born as the London Community Cricket Association (LCCA) in the aftermath of the 1981 Brixton riots to use cricket to bring back some harmony among the different ethnic groups in the Inner City. It has since become the world's leading community cricket charity.
- The main work of ‘Cricket for Change’ is carried out through its ‘Street20’ and ‘Hit the Top’ programmes, both within the UK and internationally. In the last 18 months they have worked with the ICC and UNICEF developing programmes in Israel, Sri Lanka, Jamaica and they are working in New York to use their expertise to introduce the game of Blind Cricket to America as well as work with the ‘Street20’ programme in partnership the New York Police Department.
- The ‘StreetChance’ programme (which uses ‘Street20’) is being delivered across 15 London boroughs. The initiative uses cricket to engage young people from a range of backgrounds in areas affected by youth crime and anti-social behaviour. It is a partnership between ‘Chance to Shine’, ‘Barclays Spaces for Sports’, ‘Cricket for Change’, ‘Positive Futures’ and the ‘Metropolitan Police Service’.
- ‘Hit the Top’ is a world leading and groundbreaking programme for young people with a disability. With Hit The Top, young people with a disability are able to access cricket provision comparable to their able-bodied peers.
- Website: www.cricketforchange.org.uk
