Campaign by Story
Cricket changes lives. It can help a child discover confidence, enable a disabled person to find purpose, bring companionship to an older adult and connects people to their community.
Team GCF are taking the challenge to Race Across Glos and raise valuable funds to maintain the impact we are having in our communities across the range of our work. Whether it is supporting clubs to thrive and remain pillars of their community, improve current community cricket offers designed to create opportunities for young people, or create new sustainable cricket programmes that support wellbeing and health initiatives for community organisations to own and deliver, Race Across Glos will raise funds to improve lives through the power of cricket.
"As you get older, there’s more exams and stuff and you have to be able to believe in yourself. Cricket helps me with my mental health, and it really helps me with my self-esteem. It’s helped me believe in myself, which I think is a really important thing, especially when I’m leading people. Cricket has really helped me get to that place. If I didn’t play cricket, I wouldn’t be who I am today."
Young person age 14 who attends one of the GCF’s free community cricket hubs
“All his life, and probably going into adulthood, he will need support but at cricket, generally he supports everybody that’s around him. So imagine being somewhere where you’re the one that’s able to support somebody else. It’s important to him to help others, and to have that opportunity for that to shine is so important for him, and for us as parents to see. I am indebted to you to give that to my child.”
Parent of a young person who attends one the GCF’s free disability community cricket hubs
“Since my wife died, I have found socialising difficult. Walking Cricket has been a lifeline for me, giving me a reason to leave the house and be sociable again. I don’t think I’d still be here if it wasn’t for Walking Cricket and the people I’ve met.”
Walking Cricket participant age 76
These are just a few words from the many people for whom the work of the Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation has had a valuable impact on their lives, and is why we do what we do, as we know cricket is a powerful tool that improves lives.
But we cannot do it without you, and we ask for you to dig deep and donate to Race Across Glos to support us improve lives through the power of cricket.
From the Cotswolds Hills, across the Gloucestershire countryside through Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud, over the terrain of South Gloucestershire, following the River Severn to Bristol; the team at the Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation will run, cycle and walk across our delivery region in a staff relay spanning 87 miles and 22 checkpoints, all within 13 hours to raise valuable funds.
Your donation could make a huge difference.
• £25 could support a place for a child on free school meals for a day at one of our holiday camps in their community
• £50 could support a coach at a Disability Cricket hub
• £100 could support two NEET young people through the Get Into Cricket programme
• £250 could purchase a kit bag of equipment to start up a Women's and/or Girls' section
• £500 could enable a term's cricket delivery as part of the PE curriculum at a state school
You can change somebody’s life for the better.
Support the Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation Race Across Glos and improve lives through the power of cricket.