As the Premier League football season closes, attention (in the UK at least) turns to cricket for the next few months with England playing New Zealand and Australia in Test matches this summer, along with the ICC Champions trophy.

So with cricket enjoying the media spotlight, it is as a good a time as ever to update you with what CWB has been up to for the first part of this year.

Our spring projects all returned safely and brought a smile and fun to over 10,000 African school children as well as coaching around 200 adults to become the next generation of coaches. Highlights including Standard Chartered supporting one of our projects in Uganda and the Duchess of Rutland joining the Rwanda project and an inspiring return to Northern Uganda. If you watch anything today, please watch this powerful 90 second video from a Ugandan teacher, Patrick, who describes the impact that CWB has had on former child soldiers whose previous idea of play was very different:

That is why we do what we do and that is why you support what we do.

We are also delighted to be able to announce a cricket partnership with LV = SOS, who will allow us to send out unlimited amounts of cricket equipment to Africa to help in the coaches and schools we work in. We very much look forward to this partnership.

We will be delivering coaching sessions with UNICEF and the THINKWISE campaign during the ICC Champions Trophy at the Oval and Cardiff on the 5th and 8th June, so do watch out for our volunteer coaches.

Through our first CWB ambassador, England International cricketer Holly Colvin, we have charity game against the England Ladies team at Arundel on Friday 13 September. Please do come for a great day out in the most beautiful of venues. We will be sending details to you all in the coming months about ways in which you can support the day.

A special mention must also go to one of our established CWBer's Lee Booth, whose photo of the young girl playing cricket against a Stop War mural in Northern Uganda was justifiably shortlisted for the Wisden MCC Cricket Photograph of the year.

A successful recruitment round this spring has lead to enough volunteers to do 5 countries this autumn and the same again for next spring. And from the autumn we will be trialling in Rwanda and Kenya local CWB ambassador roles to help continue the coaching between our spring and autumn projects keeping us on target to change 250,000 lives through cricket by 2020.

Thanks again for all your continued support and have a great summer.