Whether as a celebration or to boost engagement (or both!), our festival days are some of the biggest highlights on our annual calendar. Featuring a range of cricket activities, food, and excitement, every festival gets the whole family involved

CKC’s 35th Anniversary Festival

To mark our 35th year we ran a special one-day festival in West Ham Park with a 3 tees competition for children from primary schools across Newham. In total, 8 schools and over 120 children took part in the festival that saw Elmhurst Primary School crowned the winners.

West Ham Park 150th

2024 was a momentous year for West Ham Park as they celebrated their 150th Anniversary. As part of a range of events they hosted throughout the year, we provided cricket activities for the local community as part of their sports in the park day. The day’s activities featured an under 13s T20 contested between Leyton Wicketz and West Ham and Stratford CC, as well as games and activity stations for the whole family.

E1 Partnership’s Annual Cricket Day

A permanent fixture on our events calendar, the E1 Partnership’s cricket day brings together 7 primary schools from the E1 cluster in Tower Hamlets for a day a morning of cricket drills followed by small games and competitions in the afternoon for children and parents.

Wormsley Cricket Festival

Thanks to our Chief Patron, Lady Victoria Getty, Wormsley Cricket has hosted us for a charity day since 2019. In that time, the day has been used to raise valuable funds as well as provide a once in a lifetime opportunity for children, young people, and families to play and take part in cricket activities at the ground. In 2024, the day played host to a women’s T20 contested between a CKC XI and Hursley Park CC, soft ball cricket games and drills for children from Whitchurch Primary School, and a charity match played between a Coutts Bank XI and a Coutts President’s XI. We would like to thank Coutts Bank for their Cricket for a Cause campaign launched with the charity match and for all the funds it has raised and continues to raise!

The Coutts game saw some excellent batting displays with Alex Godley (r) scoring an unbeaten century for the President’s XI and Tristan Caviet (l) scoring an amazing 160 not out including a match winning 6 off the last delivery of the game.

Impact

Festivals, as the name suggests, are a chance to celebrate and bring people from together. Each festival has a different focus, but at their heart is cricket and a chance for children, young people, and adults to play a game they love or start their cricketing journey by hitting, bowling, throwing, or catching their first ball. Whether in their local park or at famous grounds, such as Wormsley, our festivals, as the title suggest, are a chance to celebrate and bring people together through healthy, physical, activity that gets children, young people, adults, and families moving

In Numbers

Total participants: 461
Total male participants: 229
Total female participants: 232
Total hours: 242

CKC/LBTH Primary Schools Festival 2024

TOWER HAMLETS SCHOOLS – YEAR 6 CRICKET FESTIVAL

FORMAT: Continuous Cricket (Details of the rules below).

TEAMS: Each School can bring up to 30 children. This will comprise of 2 teams. Each team can have between 12 – 15 players.

EQUIPMENT: Capital Kids Cricket will provide all the necessary equipment required for this event

William Greaves Trophy (MWGT)

William Greaves Trophy – Mixed Primary School Competition.

Background information: For the last 16 years, William Greaves Trophy brings together children from state primary schools across London for 5 months of exciting and competitive cricket.

Running across 17 London Boroughs, with individual borough rounds followed by a round of semi finals for the borough winners. The winners of semi finals are then invited to the grand final at the MCC Academy at Lords Cricket Ground which takes place in March. 8 schools from different boroughs will play at the grand final.

The competition format is 8 players per side with a minimum of 4 girls playing in every game and the teams can be formed of children in year 4, 5 and 6.

Hundred Blaze

Featuring coloured kits, explosive bowling and even more explosive batting, the T20 Blaze is a fantastic way to kick off the summer. This competition gives young people/young adults (predominantly under 19s) the opportunity to take part in competitive twenty over cricket whilst representing their, or their families’, country of origin.

Celebrating diversity and bringing communities together is at the heart of the competition whilst also providing a pathway for promising players to be selected for the ECB City Cup – a national competition run by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

CKC’s World Cricket Festival

To celebrate our 30th Anniversary in real style, we took on the challenege of running our biggest ever cricket festival and even attempted to break a Guinness World Record in the process!

Featuring over 1,000 children, teachers and parents/carers from over 35 state primary schools, the festival celebrated the growth of state school cricket and London’s diversity on a sun drenched day at Hackney Marshes in July 2019.

London sixes

Our annual fundraising competition, the London Sixes, has been running since 2012 and brings together both adult men’s and women’s sixes teams for a day of fast paced, action packed, cricket.

In 2018, we introduced, for the first time, the Youth London Sixes for young people aged 13 to 16. Working in partnership with London Tigers, as well as both the Surrey Cricket Foundation and Essex Cricket in the Community, we now run a south London and east London competition followed by a finals day for the top teams.

Wormsley Cricket Festival

During the 2019 school summer holiday we ran our first ever Wormsley Cricket Festival at the spectacular Wormsley Estate Cricket Ground situated among the Chiltern Hills.

With support from our Chief Patron, Lady Getty, under 13s teams comprising of players from 3 of our club projects (Leyton Wicketz CC, West Ham and Stratford CC and Spikes Bridge Junior CC) took part in a twenty over, hard ball, competition and training sessions.

We are excited to grow this festival over the coming years and possibly add it to our residential trip programme!

Inclusive Cricket League

“PUPILS ARE ALWAYS EXCITED AND ENTHUSIASTIC TO THE PLAY THE GAME.”

The Inclusive Cricket League, formerly the British Land Inclusive Cricket League, is our state primary school competition for children from across London with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Running once a year at Lord’s in the MCC Academy, the competition focuses less on competitive action and more on the positive impacts that participating in sport can have on SEND children.

Using a specially adapted game (created by Ray and Denise) children with a wide range of needs and disabilities are able to feel the thrill of hitting, catching and throwing a ball at the ‘Home of Cricket’.

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