One of the older guys from the estate who gets involved with StreetChance said that if something like this had been around when he was growing up he wouldn’t have got involved with gangs.
Perry Sophocleous
StreetChance coach
There were some boys at our session who were shy because they were bullied at school. Since they joined StreetChance their confidence has grown.
David Mason, Sport Development Manager
London Borough of Hounslow
It’s great to see groups of young girls from different backgrounds and cultures bonding together.
Beth Evans, StreetChance coach
Sutton girls project
Our history
StreetChance supported by Barclays Spaces for Sports launched in 2008, initially in London only, as an extension of the Cricket Foundation’s Chance to Shine campaign to educate children in state schools through cricket.
Starting initially as a partnership set up in 2008 between the Cricket Foundation, Barclays Spaces for Sports, Cricket for Change, Metropolitan Police Service and Positive Futures, StreetChance has provided more than 15,000 young people over 5,000 hours of free cricket and social inclusion activity.
In July 2011, the Cricket Foundation and Barclays Spaces for Sports announced a three-year follow-on investment in the programme, working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service and will now run nationwide in seven cities: London (launched in 2008), Birmingham, Bristol, Dewsbury, and Manchester (all launched 2011), Hull and Liverpool (launching 2012). The programme engages with local police across all the projects to break down barriers between police and young people.
Over the next three years, StreetChance aims to engage more than 16,000 young people, train and mentor more than 200 teachers, 250 local young coaches and volunteers, and to create more than 1,600 young leaders in schools, nationwide.