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Le Tour Stage 1 Grand Depart Leeds

When the famous Tour De France passes through your local County attending an event in relation to it is too good an opportunity to miss.  Luckily Yorkshire Cricket Foundation and the Yorkshire Cricket Board agreed that we should take Cricket to Le Tour and […]

By |July 8th, 2014|News|Comments Off

ICC Europe Division 2, Essex CCC

Following the success of last years event supporting ICCE’s Division 2 matches in Hove, we took the Cricket Factory rig into Essex CCC for this years games.

Whilst the European countries battled out T20 matches on the field we had local school children setting their […]

By |June 30th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Royal Norfolk Show, Norwich

A fantastic two days working alongside Norfolk Cricket Board in the Active Norfolk Sports Zone.

Schools, families and groups of young people visited the rig throughout the show, with many returning on a number of occasions in an attempt to beat their scores and win […]

By |June 30th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Weymouth Sea Front, Weymouth

Working alongside Somerset CCC and their neighbouring minor county Dorset we were lucky to be on the beach during Armed Forces Weekend, while just behind us along the promenade the veterans marched alongside cadets, military marching bands and a fantastic display of vintage military […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Weston Air Show, Weston super Mare

Following last years hugely successful event on the beach at Weston we were thrilled to discover that the air show would be following OceanFest and that we would be able to attend.

Our location on the sand was next to the Sea Aquarium and perfect […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

OceanFest, Croyde Bay

The OceanFest at Croyde Bay in Dorset was the first stop of our 3 day beach tour with Somerset CCC.

Somerset CCC linked with their 2 neighboring minor counties to create an impactful mini tour that would engage the whole community.

OceanFests’ community day allowed Somerset and […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Worcestershire VI Launch

Asked with what disability they wanted to support, Old Elizabethans CC in Worcester answered VI Cricket. To celebrate the launch of VI Cricket within the County the club open day was set up by Lynne Newall.

To kick start the day the England VI Team […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

100th Brownies Birthday Celebration

Up and down the County Brownie groups have been celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Brownies. With Northumberland Cricket developing strong links for girls playing the game this event was always going to be one to attend.

500 young girls and their pack leaders arrived at […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Disability Day, Sussex CCC

This was our fourth year supporting Sussex with their Disability Day and it was great to see some familiar faces from previous visits.

As usual the sun shone and over 300 young people and adults had a fantastic experience of cricket.

Skill stations, using the Cricket […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Cutteslowe Summer Festival

Following the Baton up Country we were next in Cutteslowe, Oxford who had tied their annual Summer Festival in with the Batons passing.

Hundreds of local school children created a procession through the site welcoming the Baton onto the site. The Baton was then taken […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off