How does CKC support the development of Women and Girl’s Cricket?
Supporting the continued development of women and girl’s cricket is a core aim of Capital Kids Cricket. Throughout all our projects we are proud to highlight, promote, and grow the women’s game.
Clubs
Every club that we set up, develop, or support has the aim of setting up or growing a women and girl’s section.
At two of our flagship clubs, Leyton Wicketz CC and West Ham and Stratford CC, we are well on our way to achieving this and aim to have at least one team from each club playing junior league cricket by summer 2024.
In year one of our Clubs in Need Project we will be supporting the growth of Canons CC, a girl’s only cricket club based in North London.
We will be containing to support the growth and development of a women and girl’s section at London Tigers CC, Regent’s Park CC, and Tower Hamlets CC.
Women’s University Cricket
Delivered in partnership with the Surrey Cricket Foundation, we have been running cricket sessions for women’s university clubs in London since 2016. Having initially started with Kings College London’s Women’s Cricket Club, the project has grown significantly.
In addition to KCL, sessions are now run for University College London, Imperial College London, and the London School of Economics, an annual indoor league between all the teams takes place, and, this year, over 100 women have already taken part in coaching sessions.
Competitions
While training and honing your skills is important, playing matches and putting everything into practice is the best bit! That is why we run our competitions and nothing highlights that better than our flagship competition – the William Greaves Trophy.
Contested by over 200 primary schools each year, the William Greaves Trophy features teams of 8 players where a minimum of 4 players per team must be girls. Over the last 2 cricket seasons we have been working with the Victoria Park Community Cricket League in East London to develop a women’s midweek cricket league – the Gina Bogun League.
In 2023, 4 teams took part in regular matches and we aim to grow this with the league even further in 2024 and beyond! Our annual six-a-side competition, the London Sixes has always featured both and men’s and women’s competition.
Going forward, the competition will only feature a women’s competition to provide a greater focus on the women’s game and help to promote it further.
Over the next 6 months we will be launching two brand-new, female only, leagues. These will be the My Game League, targeting secondary school girls with a combination of training sessions and matches against other schools, and a new indoor, midweek, league for mixed ability club sides.
Refugee Cricket
It is not only in the UK that we support the development of women and girl’s cricket.
We have worked with the Alsama Project in Lebanon since 2017 to develop cricket at refugee camps across Lebanon and a big part of this has been to provide equal opportunities for both male and female participants to take part, learn about the game, and develop as young people and adults.
