Match Preview: Hampshire v Warwickshire, Vitality CC
A 12-player Hampshire squad has been named for their Vitality County Championship match against Warwickshire at Utilita Bowl
Hampshire Cricket Foundation, the aligned charity to Hampshire Cricket and the The Ageas Bowl has been launched.
Previously known as Hampshire Cricket in the Community, the newly relaunched charity will help to deliver a healthier future for people across the county by raising funds to support four key objectives.
The charity will raise funds to:
The launch was marked with a special Hampshire Cricket Foundation Christmas Lunch, hosted by TMS and Sky Cricket presenter Charles Dagnall, at the The Ageas Bowl on Wednesday 11th December with hundreds turning out to mark the occasion.
The event, which helped raise more than £14,000 for the charity, also included a cheque presentation of £10,000 to Cardiac Risk in the Young for heart screening and the presentation of 4 life-saving defibrillators to local cricket clubs; Sparsholt, Steep, Hythe & Dibden and Gosport Borough.
This week’s Charity Christmas Lunch marked the launch of a very exciting new phase in the development of the Hampshire Cricket Foundation and it feels that we are at the start of something very special.
Stuart Robertson, Hampshire Cricket Foundation Director
The Hampshire Cricket Foundation will change and save lives in our community and at the same time will help to make every cricket club, the heartbeat of its community.
Heart and circulatory disease kills one in four people in the UK and remains the world’s biggest killer whilst there are 30,000 out of home cardiac arrests in the UK each year. One in three children in the UK are overweight or obese by the time they leave Primary School and one in four adults in the UK are considered obese. All of these issues are something the Hampshire Cricket Foundation is passionate about tackling.
For more details please visit the charity’s web pages via the link below, contact community@ageasbowl.com or call 023 8047 2002 and ask for Hampshire Cricket Foundation.
The Hampshire Cricket Foundation is a registered charity (Charity No. 1152024).
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