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Are you a part of a cricket club in Wales and keen to improve your clubhouse and grounds? Well, have you thought about raising money through Crowdfunder and Sport Wales’ A Place for Sport scheme?

Local clubs across Wales are doing just that. 

Find out how local communities have rallied around three cricket clubs to raise funding for projects – and then been awarded a match-funding grant from Sport Wales - to:

  • Invest in new machinery to keep the grounds looking ship shape
  • install a new electronic scoreboard
  • improve its pavilion with accessible access and changing rooms

Denbigh Cricket Club raise money for electronic scoreboard

Going all out to modernise the club, Denbigh Cricket Club turned to Crowdfunder and Sport Wales’ A Place for Sport scheme.

Deciding it was high time for an electronic scoreboard, it launched a Crowdfunder campaign in the hope it could replace the ancient scoreboard that was always in need of repair and was positioned behind the spectator viewing area. Not ideal!

The club was bowled over when it exceeded the £4000 target, raising £5340 in just 34 days. Now the club can benefit from a brand-new electronic scoreboard which provides ball by ball updates rather than relying on players to change the score after the end of every over. Howzat!

Are there technology solutions that would improve the experience at your cricket ground? Find out if you’re eligible for Sport Wales funding.

Gwersyllt Cricket Club becomes community hub

With a helping hand from Crowdfunder and Sport Wales, Wrexham’s Gwersyllt Cricket Club is growing the game in the community.

It has already attracted significant funding from the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund, but the club has raised a further £15,000 through Crowdfunder and Sport Wales’ A Place for Sport Fund.

The money is to be driven into revamping its pavilion, making it more accessible and more inclusive so that more members of the community can enjoy cricket. With a disabled cricket squad, a female cricket team and a booming youth cricket section, the club is making huge strides in becoming an inclusive club.

The money will be invested into a disability access ramp, making the changing rooms more accessible and will help create a community hub so that the cricket club is placed at the very heart of local life. 

Could your club be at the heart of your community with some facility improvements? Take a look to see if you could apply.

Newport Cricket Club keeping the grounds in tip top condition

Newport Cricket Club is a diverse, thriving community club, with 17 different teams, and it’s run entirely by volunteers.

But as a club expands and provides more opportunities than ever before, the demands on the grounds can be huge – and the club’s machinery just wasn’t keeping up. Firstly, its trusty heavy roller, which had been repaired time and time again, finally packed in. A roller is an essential piece of kit for a cricket club as it prepares the wicket and the square.

The club decided to try Crowdfunder and Sport Wales’ A Place for Sport scheme and raised more than £15,000 for the new roller. The fundraiser was so successful, the club tried again the following year. This time, for a new mower. Volunteers were spending around 12 hours cutting the grass but the club worked out that a new, faster mower would halve the time needed - meaning more time for cricket! It raised another £17,000.

Is your machinery and equipment out of date? Could new gear improve your facility? Could it be more environmentally-friendly? Find out more about Sport Wales’ A Place for Sport scheme.

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