Help us expand cricket in Peterborough

Aim

We’re kick starting fundraising this year to increase activity in Peterborough. Help us expand and develop girls & boys cricket by donating.

Who are we?

Peterborough Town CC is a large, friendly, diverse and successful club running 6 senior weekend teams and junior teams from age 9 to 19 and is run and managed by volunteers. We are proud to be at the heart of our local community representing the diverse backgrounds of Peterborough and it is the "community feel" that we believe makes our club so special to our members and visitors.

The cricket club is ECB Clubmark accredited, providing a sustainable, safe, family friendly welcoming club environment and is part of the City of Peterborough Sports Club, which includes Hockey, Squash, Bowls and Tennis.

We run ten junior teams including four girls teams. We pride ourselves on having a large and successful junior section where we run the ECB flagship All Stars and Dynamos cricket programmes. Many of our juniors over the years have graduated to our senior teams; a key objective to ensure the long term sustainability of our club.

Why are we crowdfunding?

Peterborough Town Cricket Club (PTCC) have accepted a conditional offer from Sport England Movement Fund for matched funding. Our aim is to expand inclusive participation in cricket—specifically by increasing girls’ cricket pathways and enhancing engagement with culturally diverse communities across Peterborough. 

The recent growth in junior cricket has placed strain on our existing facilities and our strategic plan is to create additional artificial cricket wickets so we can hold more games, for boys and girls concurrently. We are also exploring upgrading to a hybrid wicket which have capacity to hold more games than traditional grass-only wickets. 

This project, as a whole, will remove key barriers to participation, create welcoming and safe spaces to be active, and support inactive or underrepresented groups to experience the physical, social, and mental wellbeing benefits of sport.

Sport England’s Movement Fund supports projects that help inactive people become active, keep people active, and increase activity levels, with a particular focus on groups who traditionally face barriers—girls aged 5–16 and people from culturally diverse communities are explicitly identified priority groups. We need to raise £15,000 to secure the additional £15,000 Sport England funding. 

How we’ll spend the money raised

• Expand girls-only cricket programmes for ages 5–16, including taster sessions, coaching blocks and entry-level soft ball and hard-ball cricket.
• Develop culturally inclusive community cricket sessions, co-designed with local community groups to remove social and cultural barriers to participation.
• Upgrade training facilities and purchase new equipment to create safe, inclusive, and flexible activity spaces—supported as eligible by Movement Fund criteria, which allow investment in equipment and refurbishing or upgrading facilities to enhance activity spaces.
• Target and train additional female coaches and volunteers to build long-term capacity, aligned with the Fund’s support for developing new capabilities and leadership skills.
• Increase the number of inactive participants engaging in 30+ minutes of weekly activity, one of Sport England’s top‑priority outcomes.
  
  

Community impact

Expected Outcomes

• 50+ girls participating in cricket programmes annually
• 150+ culturally diverse community members taking part in cricket and physical activity sessions
• At least 100 inactive individuals becoming active (>30 mins/week)
• Increased volunteer and coaching workforce (particularly women)
• Stronger community cohesion through shared physical activity
• Allow us to explore cricket for a range of disabilities
  
  

How you can play your part

There are four simple ways to help us reach our target, and make this project a reality.

1. Make a pledge. Don’t delay if you’re going to support us because momentum is key to our success!

2. Spread the word. Share our project on your social media pages and tell the world to get behind us! The more people we reach, the more support we will get.

3. Offer rewards. Get involved if you are a local business by donating things we can offer to our supporters. We will give you a shout out!

4. Fundraise for us. If you want to run your own fundraiser – maybe a sponsored activity or similar – use the 'contact project' button at the top of our page to let us know. Setting up your own page only takes a few minutes and you won’t need any bank details. Just a fun idea!

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 28th July 2026 at 5:20pm