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…

Windrush and the rise of wandering Caribbean cricket clubs that fuelled talent in English game Their history was in danger of being lost but a new book and project has put together an archive documenting such vibrant contributions to the game

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...

An Ode to Cricket Clubs My conspiracy theory is that the male loneliness epidemic was promoted by Big Podcast™️ to sell snake oil supplements.

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

Panel: The Men’s Ashes and the Future of Test Cricket YouTube video by Cricket Research Network

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...

For the Love of the Game Reprised When the general state of the health of cricket in this country is debated one of the most emotive and cherished aspects of the game that is often highlighted is that of Sunday / village cricket an…

Lovely piece of writing on the friendly cricket scene in the Meon Valley yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...

🔴 LIVE: Surrey v Essex | DAY TWO | Rothesay County Championship YouTube video by Surrey County Cricket Club

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

@surreycricketfd.bsky.social @kentcricket.co.uk @essexcricket.bsky.social @hampshirecricket.bsky.social @somersetccc.bsky.social @gloscricket.bsky.social @glamcricket.bsky.social @warwickshireccc.bsky.social @yorkshireccc.bsky.social @lancscricket.bsky.social @cricketireland.ie

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

@philwisden.bsky.social @elizabethammon.bsky.social @willmacp.bsky.social @boothcricket.bsky.social @anniechave.bsky.social @robeastaway.bsky.social @cricketbadger.bsky.social @thegrumbler.bsky.social @ali-martin.bsky.social @alison-mitchell.bsky.social @zaltzcricket.bsky.social

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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@collinsadam.bsky.social @tmsproducer.bsky.social @rafnicholson.bsky.social @zaltzcricket.bsky.social @tailenders.bsky.social @millercricket.bsky.social

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...

Mel Jones reveals her role in helping the Afghanistan Women's team play once again and talks Women's Ashes Sky Sports Cricket Podcast · Episode

The great @mel-jones.bsky.social also brilliant on this on @athersmike.bsky.social and Nasser’s Sky Cricket podcast this week if you get a chance to listen open.spotify.com/episode/6wtm...

‘We are making history’: Afghanistan women’s cricket team offer hope for future Pressure is building on the ICC as a team take to the field in Melbourne on Thursday to play under the Afghanistan banner

A massive day of friendly cricket in Melbourne today and a hugely important story from @rafnicholson.bsky.social here. We hope it went well www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...