The Hampshire Cricket Community Trust was established by RB Sport and Leisure Holdings plc – parent company of Hampshire Cricket and The Ageas Bowl – in association with Eastleigh Borough Council to promote sporting and leisure opportunities in the county and surrounding area as well as increase the Club’s engagement with the community.
Our aim:
To ensure the entire Hampshire community have improved everyday lives, through continual access to, and links with, the Hampshire Cricket Community Trust.
Our vision:
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Significantly enhance the health and well-being of the citizens across the county.
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Expand and improve the access to education, learning and development opportunities for people of all ages.
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Extend the sporting offer across the county through simple access to cricket and a range of other sports and games.
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Support and sustain a range of community projects, organisations and groups via the Small Grants Scheme.
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Create strong, mutually beneficial mentoring opportunities for young and old to address a range of challenges and opportunities.
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Provide extended community-wide access to, and use of, Britain’s only ‘ECB Model Test Match Venue’, The Ageas Bowl.
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Provide strong, sustainable and impactful support work for the disabled, at-risk groups and communities, women, the elderly and those in need of life-changing intervention projects.
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Ensure the children and young people have a better start to, and chance, in life.
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Link our fragmented communities through high-quality, connecting programmes
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Generate intriguing, sustainable and alternatives to crime through intervention, education, improved vocational opportunities and pathways to employment.
Our Values:
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Heartbeat of the community – We are the hub and focal point of our community.
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Open for all and accessible to all.
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Excellence - We strive to be the best at what we do, to strive for recognition, impact and results.
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Deliver on our promises – We value our community, our partners, and our people. We commit, we do it and we stick. No exceptions.
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Positivity – We remain passionate, driven, focused and we care. Because caring matters.
As an officially registered charity, Hampshire Cricket Community Trust is uniquely positioned to engender change, on a grand scale and with genuine impact. Sport is a powerful platform for significant change that has the ability to win hearts and minds of the local community and allow people, whomever they are, to get closer to the club, closer to their community and closer to their next-door neighbour. No business, no organization, no council, no government, can deliver the positive movement change that a sporting organisation is able to deliver.
Simply put, we want to ensure that Hampshire Cricket is not only part of the community but a major driving force in actually ensuring we still have a community.