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Courtney Walsh Foundation: Club's Chosen Charity 2012

03 Feb 2012

Wanstead and Snaresbrook Cricket Club is very pleased to announce the Courtney Walsh Foundation as the charity we shall support during 2012.

The Courtney Walsh Foundation works to provide opportunities for youths and for meaningful changes in their lives through cricket in Jamaica

The Foundation is a registered charity and will work in three main areas:

•Street20 Cricket - a fast moving, affordable and sustainable version of the game to be introduced to an initial 12 inner city communities.
•Disability Cricket - "enabling the disabled" will involve the development of cricket programmes for three categories of disability.  Visually impaired (blind), physically disabled (wheel chair) and learning disabled.
•Young Offenders project - using cricket in one of the juvenile correctional institutions to engage young offenders and support their transition from custody to community.

There are other long-term projects which will include the establishment of a Cricket Centre to develop further the skill base of various categories in the Foundation's programmes and the construction of infrastructural practice facilities in each adopted community.

At Wanstead we shall promote a variety of initiatives in support of the Foundation during 2012.