Academy Community Project for St Dunstan’s

Last November the Academy went on a team bonding trip to France and Belgium to visit the war graves and other various memorials and sites for the First World War. It was a really amazing experience to hear and learn about the ultimate sacrifices that individuals made for their team.
 

 Our community project this year is to try and help the ex service men and women who have turned blind who are residents at St Dunstan’s. 
 You may ask why a cricket academy is doing a community project. We are doing a community project for two reasons; for the benefit of the community but also for our own benefit as well. The way in which we will benefit as an academy will be to gain the life skills that will be needed in the future if or when we become professional cricketers. Our aim to benefit the community is to use our privileged position as Sussex CCC academy, to try and raise money and awareness for St Dunstan’s and to give some members of St Dunstan’s a positive experience inside the SCCC environment.

  The event that will be held to raise money will be the Army and a Sussex CCC Academy Select XI in a 40 overs a side day/night cricket match at the county ground Eaton Rd. Hove, at 3:30 pm on the 9th of May. The match will be of a high standard and will be an exciting spectacle as it is under lights. There will be other fundraising activities going on on the day such as a raffle where you have a chance to win a variety of quality prizes.  The Sussex CCC  Academy Select XI will be a mixture of academy players and Pros.

 Please donate anything you can to our project, any donation no matter how small will be much appreciated by all of us here at Sussex County Cricket Club and of course to St.  Dunstans..