Newham Cricket Club Youth Section

Newham CC Colts have been operating as a volunteer charity org for 16 years. We have 90+ members, boys and girls, and we engage in the Met Essex competitions (inside M25) as well as the elite Essex Comps, where we struggle to compete, as our best players and coaches are poached by these richer clubs. We play at Flanders, which has the only grass pitches in Newham and Tower Hamlets, and the enormous demand for adult cricket restricts youth cricket, as the youngsters cannot match the finances required to secure pitches. We need to pay coaches expenses and secure access to more facilities to provide Newham with youth cricket services to match the demand, as we have to turn children away at present.