A humanitarian initiative supporting cricket-loving communities.
The Cricket Kindness Mission
We are dedicated to addressing to the desperate shortage of cricket kit in developing countries around the world, and disadvantaged communities in England and Australia, with the endless supply of quality new & pre-loved cricket gear in well-resourced pockets of the cricket fraternity.
The Cricket Kindness Project was inspired by a heartfelt determination to make the world a happier place for cricket loving communities unable to access proper equipment and uniforms.
For the past ten years, the Cricket Kindness Project (formerly the Children's Cricket Charity) has given thousands of children, teenagers & adults throughout Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Trinidad, Nevis, Guyana, Sri Lanka, Fiji, The Solomon Islands, Nepal, Sierra Leone, England & Australia the simple joy of access to equipment to play the great game of cricket.
Despite monumental challenges posed by the Covid pandemic, the Cricket Kindness Project Kit Recycling Program continued collecting & upcycling vast amounts of equipment in 2020, 2021 & into 2022 and redistributing cricket goodwill to needy cricketing communities.
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SYDNEY NEWS - In 2024, our Founder, Tamara Lowe joined the Board of Kit Bag For Kids, an Australian ACNC registered charity whose goal is to ensure no children misses out on sport due to a lack of kit.
If you have quality sporting equipment to donate in Sydney, please email tamaralowe@cricketcharity.org or ops@kitbagforkids.org
ENGLAND NEWS - We are excited the Cricket Kindness Project in England has been incorporated into the No Boundaries Cricket Club, a CIC based in England. To read more please visit; https://noboundariescricketclub.com/the-cricket-kindness-project-partnership/
JULY 2023 - Generosity in Barbados from Beechwood Park School, UK.
We have been working with Stephen Rowe from the Barbados Government Ministry of Sport for many years. Stephen Rowe is pictured here with Iain Griffiths, PE teacher at Beechwood Park School in Hertfordshire, England who became Cricket Kindness Ambassadors on their cricket tour to Barbados!
Bajan Teachers and children from St Albans Primary School in Barbados were so appreciative to receive the donation of incredible kit from Beechwood Park School.
JAMAICA NOVEMBER 2022 - 7 pallets of amazing Cricket Kindness cricket were donation to impoverished communities. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who donated to the Just Giving crowdfunding campaign to help transport the shipment!
ANTIGUA March 2022 - Cricket Kindness Shipment Arrives for Distribution to Primary & Secondary Schools.
An extraordinary morning donating a large haul of equipment to celebrate our legendary Cricket Kindness Ambassador, Sir Vivian Richards 70th birthday on March 7th, 2022 at his Antigua Grammar School.
Old Road Primary School and Urlings Primary School were delighted to receive much needed cricket gear for their PE departments. Urlings Primary students were especially excited to meet Sir Andy Roberts who came to help present kit to the school in the village where he grew up.
The Cricket Kindness Project has worked alongside Ridley Jacobs, retired WI cricketer & the coordinator of school cricket at the Antigua Ministry of Sport since 2017 to deliver cricket gear into under-resourced government schools. Our most recent kit contribution has enabled Jacobs to reinstate the combined schools cricket program in April after a long break due to Covid.
At Golden Grove Primary School, we were joined by the Hon. Daryll Matthew, Minister of Sport, the Resident British Commissioner to Antigua, Ms Lyndsy Thompson, the British High Commissioner to Barbados, Mr Scott Furressdon-Wood & Commander Chris Hollingworth from the HMS Medway. What a brilliant morning it was!
Girls & women's cricket development remains an important focus. We were pleased to donate a bag of amazing kit to the Under 19's Antigua female team.
Our heartwarming clip outlining the positive impact Cricket Kindness is having in Caribbean communities. Immense thanks to GruberVision in Sydney for producing this clip in early 2022.
BARBADOS March 2022 - 7 Huge Pallets of Cricket Goodwill Delivered.
During the last two weeks of March, 2022 many schools throughout Barbados were pleased to receive kit bags crammed full of age-appropriate cricket equipment. > Barbados 2022
Here is Cricket Kindness Ambassador, Chris Lewis's reaction to mountains of quality new & up-cycled cricket kit we shipped in late 2021! Chris grew up in Guyana and knows first hand what it is like not to have proper equipment to play the game you love.
GUYANA, April 2022. Cricket Kindness shipment gifted to Berbice Cricket Board.
April 2021 - NEPAL Bardiya Oriented Youth Society benefits from inaugural kit donation.
Cricket loving youngsters Nepal were ecstatic to receive a huge bag of cricket equipment sent to the Bardiya Oriented Youth Society from England. The Society in the rural Lumibini Province of Nepal was set up to support disadvantaged teenagers by a group of friends, including Himanshu Pokharel, a local teacher, after seeing many children in his area playing with a single broken bat, an old tennis ball & a pile of bricks for stumps.
March 2021 - Sri Lankan primary schools gifted junior kit bags.
Rural primary schools were delighted to receive junior equipment recently as part of our donation to the Foundation of Goodness.
The schools include;
Malawenna Kanishta in Viduhala
Sirisumana Kanishta Vidyalaya in Rathgama
Jayanthi Model School in Hikkaduwa
Kalupe Vishaka Kanishta Vidyalaya in Kalupe
Jan 2021 - Cricket Kindness Shipment Lands in Antigua.
Cricket Kindness sent another huge shipment of kit to Antigua from England in Jan 2021 as part of our ongoing commitment to grass roots cricket in impoverished communities in the twin island country of Antigua & Barbuda. The gear was distributed throughout primary and secondary schools by the Ministry of Sports with whom Cricket Kindness works closely. Antigua & Barbuda 2021 >
Read more below...
https://pointville.ag/2021/01/15/cricket-kindness-project-donates-a-quantity-of-gear-and-equipment/
Jan 2021 - Cricket Goodwill Arrives in Nevis.
The Caribbean island of Nevis, sister isle to St Kitts received 3 pallets of cricket equipment goodwill collected in England and shipped to the capital, Charlestown. The kit was donated to the Nevis Cricket Association & will go a long way to boosting the spirit of cricket on the tiny Caribbean island. Nevis 2021>
Read more here...
https://www.nevispages.com/nevis-receives-signficant-supply-of-cricket-gear/
ABS News Stories covering our 2021 CRICKET KINDNESS PROJECT in the twin island nation of ANTIGUA & BARBDUDA.
March 2020 - Huge Cricket Kindness distribution in Sri Lanka.
A 40-ft container of cricket equipment and training gear shipped from Australia has been donated to Sri Lanka Cricket. The kit was distributed to 25 schools throughout Northern Sri Lanka after being used in an impressive U15 cricket tournament conducted by the Jaffna District Cricket Association on behalf of Sri Lanka Cricket to identify talented young cricketers.
June 2019 - Massive Goodwill Container Arrives in Barbados.
A huge container packed with cricket gear collected in Sydney & shipped to Bridgetown was unloaded at Kensington Oval, June 20, 2019. Masses of cricket goodwill was gifted to thirty government Primary & Secondary schools between June 24th - 28th, 2019. Barbados 2019 >
Jan 2019 - 20-ft Cricket Goodwill Container docks in Antigua.
For the second time in fourteen months, a huge Cricket Kindness goodwill consignment was donated to the Antiguan Ministry of Sports. The container shipped from Sydney was unloaded at the Ministry in St. John's on Jan 31, 2019. To date, 37 Primary Schools, 12 Secondary Schools and 8 college teams have received desperately needed kit to play the game at the heart of Caribbean life. Antigua & Barbuda 2019 > and Antigua & Barbuda 2017
Impact - Equipment delivered around the world to date.
15350
cricket bats
24500
cricket balls
6830
pairs gloves
9015
pairs pads
4950
helmets
5600
wickets
30000
cricket
hats
Our very first CRICKET KINDNESS MISSION in ANTIGUA occurred in NOV 2017! This ABS TV News Story was filmed at Five Islands Primary School in ANTIGUA, where our founding Cricket Kindness Ambassador, Sir Richie Richardson went to primary school as a young boy.
Sir Richie Richardson
Ridley Jacobs
Gus Logie
Sir Viv Richards
Tino Best