What I Need From You

You've just clicked onto a Just Giving page so you know the routine....don't delay make a small investment in your local community and get the kids off the screens and onto the pitch. With your help we have done a lot already, but we can do more, and will do more if we can raise the funds. You - my good and caring friends - raised £1,210 last year for me and this year I have set the bar at £1,000, if we break that too easily we'll keep going.

I like to lead from the front so I have put the first £50 in to the pot to get things rolling.

I've got in early this year and secured a sociable time (not on at 3am!) but as one of the surprise fasted riders last year the pressure is on to do that again - every penny you can give me is incentive to work hard and not let you - or the kids - down.

What Is This About?

I'm joining the Sarisbury Athletics Cricket Club (SACC) 24 hour cycle charity fundraiser to enable the club to provide free cricket training to our local young people (aged 9-13 yrs old) with the intention of involving them in sport and all the well being that provides. This inspires those kids to rise to the challenge of sport and grow to be the resilient adults we all know they can be.

Three Bikes and 24 hours of continuous cycling to raise funds to inspire kids to take up sport. They say it is not competitive - but jolly well is! All the cyclist want their bike to go furthest and win the bragging rights!

Last year the Sarisbury Athletics 24 Hour Cycle event was the best result we've ever had in terms of funds raised and crucially what that meant to getting our local young people involved in sport. Due to the generosity of all of you we achieved great things with those funds...help us go bigger and better, do it now and feel good about your contribution to the local community.

Stats!

Since starting this annual event in 2023 we have provided a total of 4,500 hours of instructor led cricket training for 216 young people - with 83 of those as a result of last years event - that's over 38% rise in the last year alone.

Participation also includes a rising number in girls joining the sport with 14% attending the free training, most of which have joined the club to continue the love of sport.

So far we have 2 Alumni who have gone on to play senior cricket (minimum age for this is 13 but routinely 15+ is more realistic). That number is set to rise steeply as we enter our 4th year of this fund raising project.

We've Won Awards for this!

SACC won the Hampshire Cricket Collective Award 2025 for the fund raising we have done for young people and for the way we have used the money to inspire young people to take up the sport - proof if we needed it that this is working!

Thank you for reading this, hopefully you are inspired to make a contribution to the development of young people