This is what we do. Small grants for pretty much anything to support all kinds of adult friendly cricket, all across the country. With the friendly season well and truly underway this weekend, it’s not too late to make an enquiry or get an application in at info@googlyfund.co.uk
West Wycombe CC in Buckinghamshire managed to buy themselves a new mower but didn’t have enough to buy a shed to store it in to keep it safe and dry. So we stepped in to make up the difference westwycombe.play-cricket.com/home
A walking cricket group in Southport in Merseyside got some pitches paid for in order to keep costs down for first time players having a go www.lpoolcomp.co.uk/notice_board...
Nantclwyd CC in North Wales got a boundary marking machine with their money as, as you can see, it would otherwise be quite hard to see which is the line at their otherwise beautiful ground
Bowling Old Lane CC in Bradford got a team kit bag for after-work midweek matches and training sessions for new players
The good people at Trafford Metro Vics CC got a back of kit to help their women’s softball team get off the ground last year, and it’s great to see that they’re now going from strength to strength
Park cricket. The conditions under foot are a bit rough but the sun is shining above and the game is on for one of our original grant recipients the ODB CC - did anyone else get a game on this weekend?
At Blagdon Park in Northumberland their friendly team (ages 12-67) play at a ground where they lose a lot of balls. So we bought them a couple of boxes of spares to help keep the costs down
At Portchester CC in Hampshire a grant has helped subsidise some kit as the club continues to cope with the cost of having to move grounds and fundraise for a new clubhouse. Porchester are open to all with men’s, women’s, kids and disability cricket www.ecb.co.uk/news/4029276...
The wonderfully named Flowery Field CC in Hyde in Greater Manchester had some net session hire costs covered for their new women’s section to keep participation going over the winter
The Birmingham Stars visually impaired team are getting batting and wicket keeping equipment so that more players can play more friendly matches without having buy all their own kit bcew.co.uk/the-clubs/birm…
The brilliant St Nics and Notts Refugee CC, supporting cricket for asylum seekers and recent migrants in the East Midlands, will get a set of team whites so that they can play a game at charming Chatsworth House in May (and use them for the rest of the season of course)
The historic Shillington Spitfires in Bedfordshire folded in the 1990s but were reborn in 2023. This year they are hosting a friendly four-team T20 tournament which we will subsidise the catering for to support their fundraising efforts and expansion
shillington.org.uk/shillington-sp…
A daily thread on things we’ve funded recently in the run up to the start of a new season…
At Edinburgh South CC our small grant will buy team gloves, pads and helmets so that youngsters don’t have to buy their own as they have a go at hardball cricket
www.edinburghsouthcc.org/newsstory/ne... 🏴🏏♥️
A week to go for some Sunday friendly teams. Who needs a small grant for a gazebo, a scorers’ table or a portable scoreboard? Get in touch if we can help and please help spread the word about us by sharing
If this sunny Saturday afternoon weather isn’t getting you in the mood for the friendly cricket season then we can’t help you. If you need a small grant to help you get ready for that season though… we probably can www.googlyfund.co.uk
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Sunday cricket just three or four weeks away now (anyone starting earlier than Easter/April??)
Have a look at our website and get in touch if we can help you with a small grant towards getting any friendly games on googlyfund.co.uk
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With a month to go until Easter, get your bids in to the Googly Fund for small grants for friendly cricket.
Could be for help with your:
-Ground🚜
-Kit🏏
-Teas🫖
-Advertising🤳
We’ll fund anything that helps get more people playing friendly forms of the game in the UK & Ireland
Women’s cricket, disability cricket, primary school parents’ or parents of juniors’ cricket, six-a-side, softball, tapeball, red ball, coloured clothes or whites, after work t20s in the park, or Sunday afternoons at the village rec, it’s all good with us info@goooglyfund.co.uk
It could be a bag of kit, a new floppy scoreboard, a scorer’s table or a season’s worth of squash. As long as it’s helping more people play friendly cricket we don’t really mind. Get in touch if you have any ideas for your team or club that you want to discuss…
March has arrived, the sun is out and you can almost taste the orange squash the cricket season is so close now. If you’re putting the finishing touches to your team’s plans for the year, don’t forget that the Googly Fund can help with small grants towards anything friendly cricket related…
Nice Guardian piece on the Windrush Cricket project documenting all the British Caribbean cricket clubs, lots of which sat outside official league structures www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Excuse the expletives but this is a tremendous piece on the importance of friendly cricket in Australia and England prosefordaphne.substack.com/p/an-ode-to-...
This will be a great evening full of great stories and great cricket-loving people. Get along if you can
Here’s the recording of our latest webinar panel - The Men’s Ashes and the Future of Test Cricket.
Tim Wigmore and @jarrodkimber.bsky.social covered a LOT of ground - and the event was expertly chaired by @russinthezone.bsky.social 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtt6...
Lovely piece of writing on the friendly cricket scene in the Meon Valley yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...
Googly Fund co-founder Dan Forman will be on the Surrey YouTube stream at tea talking about the joy of friendly cricket with @norcrosscricket.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/f2Ijq8T...
Anyone interested in a collector’s item? This lovely old roller has been superseded after many, many years of loyal service. If anyone knows of a resting home for it then please let me know 🙏🙏
We’re extending the deadline for these special £1,000 grants until the *end of April*. Get in touch if you have any questions about them. And please share, thanks