Worcestershire Cricket Foundation

Registered charity 1197703 · since 2022worcestershirecricketfoundation.co.uk·England, Wales·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£1,000 to £15,000

Grant range

From the funder's website

Open to applications

Rolling, no deadlines · unsolicited applications welcome

Key takeaways

If you are an ECB-affiliated cricket club in England or Wales, the County Grants Fund is open to you, and the foundation gives priority to clubs with an established women's or girls' section or that offer disability cricket.
Requests in the stated grant range of £1,000 to £15,000 fit its published range, and for Enhanced Changing Facilities it states up to £50,000, so a facilities project may warrant a larger ask.
Applications are rolling and go through the ECB IMS, so you can apply at any time.
Organisations that are not ECB-affiliated clubs in England or Wales should not apply, since the foundation does not fund them, and the annual report gave no readable grants total, so the overall scale of its giving is unclear.

Overview

Worcestershire Cricket Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1197703).

What they fund

Priority Areas

The foundation describes the County Grants Fund as supporting ECB-affiliated cricket clubs actively engaged with women’s, girls’ or disability cricket. It funds projects to create welcoming environments and provide enhanced playing or changing facilities, with the aim of increasing women’s, girls’ and disability cricket teams and making cricket more inclusive. Applications are open to all ECB-affiliated cricket clubs in England and Wales, while priority goes to clubs with established women’s or girls’ sections or that offer disability cricket. The foundation’s wider work uses cricket to provide programmes and activities for communities throughout Worcestershire, and it works with schools, clubs, charities and other partners.

Themes

Women's cricket
Girls' cricket
Disability cricket
Club facilities

Geographic Focus

England; Wales.

What they don't fund

The foundation does not fund applicants other than ECB affiliated cricket clubs in England and Wales
County Grants Fund only: The foundation does not fund applicants other than ECB affiliated cricket clubs in England and Wales

How to apply

ECB-affiliated cricket clubs can apply for funding via the ECB IMS.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

The fund prioritises clubs with an established women’s section, a girls’ section and/or that offer disability cricket.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Worcestershire Cricket Foundation.

Sussex Cricket FoundationInvitation onlyGave £50,763 Lancashire Cricket FoundationFixed deadlines The David & Christine Lloyd-Jones FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £474k Somerset Cricket FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £2,475 Walter Lees FoundationRollingGave £104k Surrey Cricket FoundationRollingGave £14,305 Forster FoundationNo public process The WFH FoundationNo public processGave £2.9M The Varrier - Jones FoundationRollingGave £1.4M Herefordshire Community FoundationRollingGave £604k

4 years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2022	£580,518	£522,375	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£829,709	£676,919	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£772,894	£822,695	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£821,187	£847,785	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.