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The campaign
Bringing the benefits of cricket back to state schools.
The Cricket Foundation launched Chance to Shine in May 2005 and set out to bring competitive cricket - and its educational benefits - back to at least a third of the country’s state schools initially over a ten year period.
The campaign
Now in our fourth year, we recognise the power of cricket to help young people acquire important skills, values and attitudes for their future lives. The campaign does not aim to develop the cricketing stars of the future. And although it’s possible we might find the next Andrew Strauss or Charlotte Edwards, our main aim is development through cricket.
Chance to Shine is a £50million national campaign that relies on corporate and individual charitable donations. To sustain the programme and achieve its target of reaching at least two million state school children by 2015, we need to raise £25million privately which the Government has pledged to match pound for pound.
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How it works
Chance to Shine is delivered through individual projects working with Cricket County Boards across England and Wales. Each project provides a structured coaching and competition programme for a group of up to eight primary and secondary state schools. The group of schools is supported by professional, qualified coaches engaged by one local cricket club.
We also provide equipment, facility development (including playground markings and non-turf pitches) as well as training for state school teachers and coaches. Each project is funded for a minimum period of five years and once it’s ended, we work closely with schools and clubs to help them sustain cricket activities.
We also support a number of special projects, including StreetChance, MCC Spirit of Cricket, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Prince’s Trust xl scheme
