In December 2019 Cricket Without Boundaries (CWB) joined 87 top sports organisations to be a signatory to the UNHCR and International Olympic Committee’s Refugee Sports Coalition.

Join us in a grand adventure, and help raise vital funds for Cricket Without Boundaries, on our “Meander Uganda” virtual mission!

Connecting Clubs International and Cricket Without Boundaries are delighted to announce a partnership with the MCC Foundation to deliver the Cricket for Equality project, in Nepal.

Cricket Without Boundaries is recruiting for several voluntary positions to join our Board of Trustees. We are a largely volunteer led charity, and our purpose is to use sport, cricket in particular, as a tool for delivering social change.

No-one welcomed 2021 in quite the way they were expecting, but to help us kick-off our year we would like you to join us in celebrating the African countries that CWB works in and the Ambassadors that work there.

With 2020 drawing to a close, it’s time to look back on a strange, challenging but in many ways positive year for Cricket Without Boundaries.

On World Aids Day, we would love you to join us for the evening to celebrate the work of our amazing Ambassadors and to test your wits in our quiz. 

I am passionate about my work as a health economist, helping evaluate programmes to prevent infectious diseases in low income settings and also love cricket, so when I heard about a charity that uses cricket to deliver infectious disease prevention messages, the dye was cast.

Ten years ago, nearly to the day, I was setting off on my debut Cricket Without Boundaries trip to Rwanda. The world now is obviously very different, so I thought it was right to reflect on the changes in both CWB and me as an individual in those 10 years.

Despite the disruptions in 2020 due to Covid-19, we were still able to work on our project with partners Avert to develop, design and begin to implement new flashcards to use in cricket sessions across our sub-Saharan Africa partner countries, to get conversations going about HIV.

I am Emmanuel Isaneez, I’m 33 years of age. I am one of 3 children, I have Tony and Susan as my brother and sister, from the family of Mr. Francis Omongole. I come from Uganda in a small town called Jinja. Jinja is well known because its where you find the source of River Nile that goes up to Egypt.

Two years ago we started our programme in Jordan, linking with Right to Play Jordan to introduce cricket into schools via their ‘StrengthenIng our Schools‘ programme.

The Trustees of CWB do a great job in developing strategy and supporting the delivery on the ground. Often they are behind the scenes, but we want to bring them to the front. Today meet Tracey Francis, Trustee since 2019.

As we head into Refugee Week, culminating in World Refugee Day on 20th June, it’s fair to say that set against a rather turbulent backdrop of the global response to COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter protests, it’s certainly a powerful mix. It is also one which should make us reflect on not just supporting refugees, but also how we do this.

My name is Emmy Uwiragiye, I’m 23 years old and I am the 5th child in a family of 7. I’m from the northern province Rwanda. I live in Rulindo district, Kinihira sector.

CWB are delighted to have been chosen as one of the charities to benefit from the remarkable efforts of Marlborough College Cricket Club!

“Pandemic Stopped Play” - certainly it has felt like that has been the case, as cricket grounds around the world have been forced into an unnatural summer hibernation, lying unused under blue skies and sunshine.

Cricket Without Boundaries are delighted to confirm that we have appointed two new Trustees; Dr Matthew Quaife, Assistant Professor in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and David Terrace, long-standing CWB volunteer and charity-governance expert.

We are delighted to be able to share with you our Annual Report for 2019 – packed full of photos and updates from another great year at Cricket Without Boundaries. We hope this provides an enjoyable read and thank you for your ongoing support and volunteering efforts, which made all of these great things possible.

Cricket Without Boundaries are grateful to the student members of Marlborough College Cricket Club for including CWB alongside NHS Charities Together and the Ruth Strauss Foundation in its RUN 100 TO RAISE 100 challenge.

For the second #CWBchallenge we are going a little more creative - this week your task is to make your own ball from material in your home, garden or yard. You’ll then be able to use this ball in future challenges!

Like everyone, the team at Cricket Without Boundaries, our partner Cricket Associations, and the communities we work with year-round, are feeling the effects of COVID-19.

We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new project at Cricket Without Boundaries, delivered in collaboration with HIV education charity Avert (check out the dedicated project page on Avert’s website here) and made possible through funding from the Mercury Phoenix Trust.

Last year, over 65,000 children – half of whom were girls – across Africa, the Middle East and Europe were coached by our CWB volunteers. Volunteers from across the UK, from 18 to 63 all motivated to inspire, to coach, to share and experience the power of sport to make a difference to young people and inspire their dreams.

Working with Right to Play Jordan we have supported the upskilling of teachers, to use cricket based games to aid with core curricular learning of Maths, English and Arabic as well as social development via team building, leadership and ownership to local Jordan and refugee children.

As part of UNHCR Global Refugee Forum, CWB is proud to be part of a worldwide sports coalition to work with young refugees to help them discover their potential. Through our work in East Africa and more recently the Middle East and the UK, we promote inclusivity and the important of team work through playing cricket.

Congratulations to CWB Ambassador and Cricket Kenya coach Nicholas Oluoch who has been appointed interim head coach for Kenya women's national side, for their upcoming international tour of Botwana, which will feature 7 T20I fixtures at the Gabrone Oval.

The global theme for World AIDS Day in 2019 is Communities Make The Difference.

Joe Chaplin is off to Rwanda with Cricket Without Boundaries this Autumn, and he has taken on an epic running challenge to raise awareness and funds for CWB.

Join the Cricket Without Boundaries volunteer family as we host a great quiz and raffle at a venue right in the heart of London, raising money to continue to drive Cricket Without Boundaries’ work in the UK and around the world.

Help make dreams come true by volunteering with Cricket Without Boundaries

Last weekend we were in Jordan as we continue to build on our partnership with Right to Play. The visit followed our successful joint projects in 2018 and was to focus on CWB training Right to Play staff to deliver our methodologies as part of the Right to Play Strengthening our Schools programme.

Generous donation for CWB’s women and girls empowerment work

Have you ever stared out of your window at this time of the year, your ‘new year, new you’ resolutions hanging by a thread, the dark winter evenings seemingly endless, dry January...and thought to yourself; ‘I need an adventure’ or, ‘wouldn’t it be great to make a difference?’ Well, this could be just the thing to banish those winter blues.

As a regular traveler for work, boarding flight WB305 from Dubai to Kigali was in itself unremarkable. However, the following four days were truly remarkable for me and below is at attempt to describe why.