OUR IMPACT OUR IMPACT OUR IMPACT The Lord’s Taverners is the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity. We work across the UK and beyond to ensure that SUPPORTED BY disadvantaged and disabled young people have access to free sport and CONTENTS all the benefits it can bring. WICKETZ .................................. 04 SUPER 1s .................................. 05 12% increase TABLE CRICKET ........................ 06 SPORTS KIT RECYCLING 07 ............ to GRANTS 08 .................................... 1,063 OUR THEMES 1,324 09 ............................. PARTICIPANTS OUR JOURNEY SO FAR ................ 10 Number of BEING A PART OF SOMETHING .... 12 increase participants 24% SKILLS FOR LIFE ..................... 14 rose across our COMMUNICATION, TEAMWORK three cricket AND LEADERSHIP ...................... 16 programmes VOLUNTEERING AND Sports COMMUNITY BENEFIT ................ 18 Kit Recycling IN THEIR OWN WORDS ................ 20 10,653 to WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ............. 22 items 31,18 0 delivered SUPPORTERS ............................ 23 11,985 up 146% 10% 19% INCREASE PARTICIPANTS INCREASE TABLE CRICKET PARTICIPANTS to to 1,749 2,084 7,841 8,683 2 12 months ended September 2019 3 OUR IMPACT OUR IMPACT WICKETZ SUPER 1s Designed to tackle disadvantage, Wicketz is a year-round, weekly, Children from deprived backgrounds experience worse life outcomes Based in communities rather than schools, Super 1s offers disabled by disabled people who are trying to be more active – life costs on free community cricket programme for children living in deprived across the board, with lower attainment levels, higher rates of young people aged 12-25 an inclusive opportunity to play cricket average £583 more a month for disabled people than non-disabled areas across the UK. Each of the 19 projects deals with issues in the unemployment, worse physical and mental health and a greater weekly at grassroots level. We run 18 projects across the UK, setting people (Scope, 2019), so providing free sessions in areas where local area, from health and wellbeing concerns to police and safety likelihood of never escaping poverty. By providing free regular up several local hubs per project where young people can come there’s not much else on can be game-changing. Another barrier is problems. Participants come along for the cricket and stay for the team sports activity, augmented by key life skills workshops, we help together, play and learn vital life skills all year round. We’re working negative perceptions, or the sense that sport is ‘not for them’ – and building, leadership and personal development opportunities. our participants develop an understanding of their own wellbeing, closely with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to make sure that’s something we’re tackling head-on. contribute to their focus in school and encourage them to think beyond that access and inclusion are at the heart of our work. Each Wicketz project has a dedicated Development Officer their immediate circumstances. Our participants come from incredibly Many of the young people who have been engaged in the programme responsible for the initiation and running of several local hubs within diverse backgrounds, but we’re immensely proud to say we work with For many young disabled people, opportunities to take part in regular now act as role models for the next group of participants, whether the area. We work closely with county cricket boards and local significant numbers of young people who don’t normally engage with competitive sport can be extremely limited. Super 1s provides these as a player, coach or volunteer. Their personal development ends up partners to identify target areas and develop the projects, and the or enjoy sport – especially Asian children and girls of all nationalities. opportunities and helps young people realise their potential both on having a massive impact on their families and their wider communities, Development Officer builds trust with the community and young people and off the pitch. Accessibility is one of the biggest barriers cited creating friendship groups which go beyond cricket. who come along to the sessions, many of whom are from hard-to-reach groups, including young offenders, refugees and excluded pupils. SCOTLAND GLASGOW HARTLEPOOL DURHAM BRADFORD/ LEEDS YORKSHIRE HULL LANCASHIRE MANCHESTER NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LEICESTER PETERBOROUGH NORFOLK WEST MIDLANDS WARWICKSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE SOUTH WALES LUTON BEDFORDSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE TOWER HAMLETS TENDRING GLOUCESTERSHIRE ESSEX WEST HAM MIDDLESEX BRISTOL LEYTON SURREY KENT CRAWLEY SOMERSET SUSSEX HAMPSHIRE SOUTHAMPTON PLYMOUTH 15% 49 girls “It’s not just friends, 76 70% Hubs Hubs of participants it’s family – this is from a BAME background 85% family for me.” boys Richard, Super 1s participant, Hackney 4 12 months ended September 2019 5 OUR IMPACT OUR IMPACT TABLE CRICKET SPORTS KIT Aimed at disabled 8-18 year olds who would otherwise have little Children and young people are playing table cricket in schools and or no access to sport, table cricket is a pan-disability form of cricket community groups from Taunton to Inverness. Often, the parents and RECYCLING played on a table tennis table. We organise a national programme of caring networks of our participants, as well as the children themselves, delivery in schools and community groups and run the annual national have only ever been told what they can’t do. Being part of a team competition, open to everyone who participates, that culminates in a and representing their school, playing amongst friends, learning Many young people in the UK and abroad find it hard to access team Kit recycling doesn’t mean a few bats for an already established club Finals Day at Lord’s. about winning and losing, taking home their certificates and medals sports, with one of the main barriers being a simple lack of access to in Mumbai – we work closely with partners to make sure our shipments to their parents – all these things add huge value to the lives of our the right kit and equipment. go to groups where they can really make a difference. In Jordan, Alongside the enjoyment of playing the game and competing, table participants. for example, we sent equipment to Right to Play, who are delivering cricket has been shown to develop teamwork and social skills among We receive tonnes of donated kit from all over the UK through a cricket at a refugee project, getting boys and girls to play together players. It also helps coordination and cognitive skills, as well as providing network of local collection hubs. We then sort, pack and redistribute and providing fun and laughter to a community which has seen and an understanding of the value of strategy, planning and leadership. kit to projects across the world – from youth teams in England, to girls’ experienced unimaginable atrocities. projects in Brazil, refugee support programmes in Greece and slum projects in India. We also provide kit to our own Wicketz projects. We’re also making an environmental impact – every time a piece of preloved kit comes to us, it gets a second life doing something We also receive kit from major sports clubs and following high really valuable! profile tournaments – at the Cricket World Cup we were a Cricket for Good partner and received donated kit from some of the international teams playing. COMPETITIONS: 38 64 County 11 Regional 1 National Final counties and two national 24,971 boards beneficiaries involved across 20 this year countries 6 12 months ended September 2019 7 OUR IMPACT OUR IMPACT GRANTS OUR MINIBUSES THEMES Accessible transport is still a barrier for many special educational needs (SEN) schools but our specially-adapted minibuses are This year’s impact report is an opportunity for us to look back at what Since then, we have achieved far more towards these goals than we helping schools and organisations across the we have achieved as well as forward to next year and beyond. could have imagined. UK by providing their pupils with access to their local communities and a wide range of Three years ago, we said our goals were to: As we look to the future, we are expanding our strategy and future- sporting and recreational activities. Getting • Increase opportunities for regular participation proofing our goals. We want to focus on the wider social effects of our out and about into the community not only • Motivate young people to engage in sport work, beyond just participation and delivery. teaches these young people how to behave in • Improve health, social and psychological wellbeing social settings outside school, it also helps to • Empower volunteers, coaches and teachers to deliver familiarise non-disabled people with disabled training sessions people and encourages them to think about building more inclusive communities. BEING A PART COMMUNICATION, OF SOMETHING TEAMWORK AND POSITIVE LEADERSHIP Exclusion and isolation Building social skills is are huge issues for many vital for our participants of the young people as many have limited on our programmes, opportunity to develop although they may not these elsewhere. word it so explicitly All our programmes themselves. We want our are designed to support 27 participants to feel like young people to develop Minibuses donated they have an opportunity their communication skills, to succeed, that their voices learn about teamwork, matter, and that they are included promote good leadership skills in something bigger than themselves. Our programmes actively draw and build positive relationships which can provide stability and people in to group activities with others experiencing similar things, security. Participation in team sports has been shown to have a strong fostering an attitude of tackling problems together and supporting impact on confidence, listening and speaking skills, working together others in their peer groups. Our participants tell us time and again and boosting a positive attitude – all of which go hand in hand with how important it is for them to feel like they are part of a team, part our outcomes.