As we reflect on the outstanding Olympic games that London gave us together with the warmth that it generated in both the UK and beyond there has never been a better time to champion the power of sport for social good.

As no doubt many of you know we have been using cricket over the last 7 years to not only put a smile on over 30,000 African children's faces, but also to help build, empower and inspire communities through sport.

Central to that message has been reinforcing and raising simple HIV/AIDS awareness messages through coaching sessions. That is why CWB has recently recruited a whole new AIDS awareness team, with Will McLaren-Clark and Amaredeep Singh taking charge of it. It is essential that our AIDS awareness side is not just an add on to our cricket coaching, but is fully integrated into everything the charity teaches.

We have for the first time 5 projects in the autumn, visiting 5 countries, including a whole new venture in Cameroon. Recruitment has started for the spring and autumn 2013 projects, so if you want to spend 2 weeks of your life doing something practical, sustainable and potentially life changing do apply (details are contained in this newsletter and also on the website).

Our relationship with the ICC as their THINKWISE HIV/AIDS awareness delivery partner continues to develop, which including being invited to a round table meeting at the Beyond Sport Conference in July to talk about cricket and social good. This included several of our projects in Uganda and Kenya being name checked by the new ICC president, Alan Isaac.

For the first time we were involved in a UK Sport funded and Uganda Cricket Association organised project in Northern Uganda taking cricket to a former war zone. Those of you that read the blog will know this was quite an adventure, but also was a hugely successful project as we coached over 100 teachers in 3 separate areas of the North. The iconic photo of children playing cricket in front of an anti-war mural on our home page is compelling evidence that as the Olympics showed us sport is more than just competing, it is about bringing us all together, wherever we are from.

Help us to continue on our mission of helping change 250,000 lives by 2020 through cricket.