New Nets - Women and Youth Chew Valley CC

Aim: To build new 2 lane nets crucial to our plan to provide dedicated women's hard ball and fit for purpose Youth and all ability training.

Help Chew Valley Cricket Club Build a New Netting Facility to Give our Women, Youth and Players of All Abilities Vital Training Facilities

We're raising money to build a brand new 2 lane cricket net providing a vital capability enabling us to deliver our ambition to deliver sport, community and belonging into our community.

What the nets will provide:

• Hugely increase the training we can provide our Youth - this is CRITICAL
• Dedicated facility to transition our Woman's squad to hard ball cricket
• A community asset to be used by Players, Parents and Children all summer long
• Professional facilities that attract more people into the sport and be active
• Any extra monies raised will go towards the purchase of a further bowling machine, a mobile bowling net, more woman's hard ball gear and a new mower if we are very fortunate.

Who we are!

Chew Valley Cricket Club was founded in 2022 with the ambition of delivering a sustainable process for cricket with a long term view. We understood that the future of cricket in the Chew Valley required a wider approach underpinned by community, youth and Woman's cricket. We have;

• Succeeded in delivering high class, consistent and fun training to our youth with thriving squads at U11,13 and 15. 
• We have a women’s section that is going from strength to strength with a strong softball league team and a newly formed squad for friendlies, ‘The Buccaneers’
• A Senior league team and mixed social friendlies squad, ‘The Pirates’. Our ambition in 2026 is to field a second senior league team
• We do not have the capacity or the quality in our current net to continue to build on the solid foundations we have built for our women, youth and social squads.
• We are on track (if we build the nets) to field a woman’s hard ball team by 2027 and want to continue to develop our thriving and expanding youth team.
• Our current net denies the children and women the time to increase their skill base critical to improve their performance in a very technical sport - the new net will overcome this obstacle.

How we’ll spend the money raised

We will build a brand new 2 lane artificial turf netting facility providing the ability to train our youth and women's squad alongside our First XI. 

Currently we train the adult squads on the same night which brings huge benefits in terms of motivation, skill share and driving a very strong sense of belonging. 

Our current net is poorly sited, home-made and not fit for purpose. 

When used during training it can only accommodate the First XI due to time constraints. This denies the women the availability of a critical training asset.

The Youth are constrained by the lack of capacity that the current sub-standard net can provide. 

Having a 2 lane net, sited in a safe part of the ground will allow us to provide dedicated hard ball training for our woman's squad as we transition them safely and with a high degree of confidence to hard ball cricket in 2027.

Community impact

As we have grown our club, providing cricket in many formats and age groups, we have built a fantastic community hub where the provision of sport and outdoor activity now touches over 200 people directly. 

Providing a fit for purpose training facility will train our youth, girls and women into a lifetime of sporting participation.

Having a thriving softball women's section both league and non-league has been a very important part of the clubs development. 

Many women and mothers who take part are brilliant role models to girls in the community and their children and have encouraged many girls to take up the sport. 

Its imperative that we are able to provide these girls a route into hard ball cricket at the club so that they are able to continue playing competitive cricket as they graduate from our youth training process. 

Having a woman's hard ball team by 2027 is a target as we will have a number of girls ready to move up then.

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 5th September 2025 at 10:27am