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Sunday cricket just three or four weeks away now (anyone starting earlier than Easter/April??)
Have a look at our website and get in touch if we can help you with a small grant towards getting any friendly games on googlyfund.co.uk
Please share in your🏏 networks
With a month to go until Easter, get your bids in to the Googly Fund for small grants for friendly cricket.
Could be for help with your:
-Ground🚜
-Kit🏏
-Teas🫖
-Advertising🤳
We’ll fund anything that helps get more people playing friendly forms of the game in the UK & Ireland
Women’s cricket, disability cricket, primary school parents’ or parents of juniors’ cricket, six-a-side, softball, tapeball, red ball, coloured clothes or whites, after work t20s in the park, or Sunday afternoons at the village rec, it’s all good with us info@goooglyfund.co.uk
It could be a bag of kit, a new floppy scoreboard, a scorer’s table or a season’s worth of squash. As long as it’s helping more people play friendly cricket we don’t really mind. Get in touch if you have any ideas for your team or club that you want to discuss…
March has arrived, the sun is out and you can almost taste the orange squash the cricket season is so close now. If you’re putting the finishing touches to your team’s plans for the year, don’t forget that the Googly Fund can help with small grants towards anything friendly cricket related…
Nice Guardian piece on the Windrush Cricket project documenting all the British Caribbean cricket clubs, lots of which sat outside official league structures www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Excuse the expletives but this is a tremendous piece on the importance of friendly cricket in Australia and England prosefordaphne.substack.com/p/an-ode-to-...
This will be a great evening full of great stories and great cricket-loving people. Get along if you can
Here’s the recording of our latest webinar panel - The Men’s Ashes and the Future of Test Cricket.
Tim Wigmore and @jarrodkimber.bsky.social covered a LOT of ground - and the event was expertly chaired by @russinthezone.bsky.social 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtt6...
Lovely piece of writing on the friendly cricket scene in the Meon Valley yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...
Googly Fund co-founder Dan Forman will be on the Surrey YouTube stream at tea talking about the joy of friendly cricket with @norcrosscricket.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/f2Ijq8T...
Anyone interested in a collector’s item? This lovely old roller has been superseded after many, many years of loyal service. If anyone knows of a resting home for it then please let me know 🙏🙏
We’re extending the deadline for these special £1,000 grants until the *end of April*. Get in touch if you have any questions about them. And please share, thanks
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Two weeks to get your applications in for these grants. Please share in your networks
It mat be mid March but the cricketers of Bekonscot Village are already out playing 😃
Cheers Phil
Thanks Ali
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Get in touch via info@googlyfund.co.uk by the end of March. Full details on our website. Please share to help get the word out thanks
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It could be men's, women's or disability cricket. Softball, hardball, six-a-side or eleven-a-side. T20 or a timed game. As long as it's about expanding adult-friendly cricket, that's it...
*Grants of up to £1,000 available to cricket clubs*
This year we are expanding our funding, offering three special grants of up to £1,000 to promote friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland...
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Fantastic opportunities for friendly cricket clubs 👏👏👏
Are you a primary school that would like to put together a parent cricket team this summer, to encourage social networks? Or a cricket club that would like to attract new adult players?
Generous funding available to help make it happen.
Get in touch via info@googlyfund.co.uk by the end of April
Full details on our website www.googlyfund.co.uk/projects_we_...
Please share in your networks thanks
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It could be men's, women's or disability cricket. Softball, hardball, six-a-side or eleven-a-side. T20 or a timed game. As long as it's about expanding adult-friendly cricket, that's it...
We'll also offer at least one grant of up to £1,000 to support starting a primary school parents' team, along the lines of the successful initiatives started in south London and Bristol....
We're looking for bids from clubs who might want to start a social Saturday, Sunday or midweek team, open up their facilities to other friendly teams, or encourage new players into or back to cricket...
*Grants of up to £1,000 available to cricket clubs*
This year we are expanding our funding, offering three special grants of up to £1,000 to promote adult friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland...
