Why should I help?
Your donation, large or small, will make a huge difference. As a cricket-lover or someone who has been positively affected by cricket, you’ll know what a great game it is and the opportunities it provides youngsters. Regardless of ability, gender, ethnicity and educational background, we believe all young people should have the chance to play cricket. It is a game that:
- promotes leadership, teamwork and communication
- teachers respect; how to win, to lose and cope with setbacks
- requires high standards of conduct and provides positive role models
- reaches all ethnic communities in a way no other sport can
One Chance to Shine supported by Brit Insurance pupil Caitlin, 13, from Durham, says, "I had never played cricket before Chance to Shine came to my school when I was 10. I realised I was quite a good bowler and the first year I played I made it into the Durham squad. I absolutely love cricket and I want to play for England."
Uzayr, 6, a dialysis patient at Evelina Children’s Hospital, St Thomas’s Hospital in London where Chance to Shine runs a special programme says: "I love having Chance to Shine cricket in the ward every week. It gets really boring sitting in my chair all day and it’s so fun hitting and catching balls with the coaches. The nurses like it too!".
Tracey Miller, a teacher from Bethnal Green, found the benefits of Chance to Shine cricket came in the form of behavioural improvement.
"I had a boy in my class who used to get frustrated, lose his temper very easily and struggled to cope with losing or being told he was wrong", she says, "he would throw tantrums; everything was unfair or someone else’s fault, but through cricket, and being given the team’s captaincy, he learnt be responsible. "Sport is clearer, more defined", continues Tracey," so that children can see clearly that the same simple rules apply to all. The raised finger of the umpire is final and this is an authority that is comprehensible to youngsters."
