New Two Lane Practice Net Facility

Who are we?

Great Preston Cricket Club is a community club based on the outskirts on Leeds. We run two senior teams in the Bradford Premier League, 4 junior sides plus girls side(s) in the Leeds & Wetherby Junior League plus a newly formed ladies side in the new West Yorkshire Softball League.

We are a not for profit organisation that rely on the hard work of a small band of brilliant volunteers. 

Our ever increasing playing numbers means that we are outgrowing our playing facilities and in particular the training facilities that are available to all our sides. We desperately need a new 2 lane training bay to improve our training options and after a couple of years of planning have agreed that this project will definitely go ahead this winter/spring.

Any money that you can spare towards the project would be really appreciated and make a massive difference to our club.

Community impact

We pride ourselves on being a hub for the local community. This project will create a new training facility that will encourage more and more kids and seniors to get involved and become part of our growing club aswell as providing a new excellent facility to improve training options.

Why are we crowdfunding?

We are a small not for profit organisation and rather than looking for a huge grant to fund an ECB accredited system we wanted to be more realistic and work within our means including doing as much of the manual side of this ourselves to not only keep costs down but bring us together and develop the project internally. This crowdfunding system allows us not only to reach out for donations but also hopefully receive additional funding through a "matching" system by organisations such as Sport England to reward our efforts.

On top of that, the pandemic has hit all organisations and we are no different in the amount of lost revenue we've had from things like social events etc ... which is hopefully something we will now start to see revived. 

How we’ll spend the money raised

The funds raised will be 100% spent on this project. As part of Phase 1 the costs of specialist materials such as matting, base, cage etc are around £8000 and then the additional groundwork and materials is around £2000. If we manage to raise enough money then phase 2 would include additional security fencing and gates with things such as animal protectors and sight screens added "luxuries".

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. If you want to run your own fundraiser to support us, 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!

We really appreciate you reading our crowdfunder and hope you can help support us in any way.