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WINCHESTER CLUBS BRING KENYA KIT CHRISTMAS CHEER

22/12/2016

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Masses of cricket equipment, donated by seven recreational cricket clubs in the Winchester area, has been shipped to the East Africa Cricket Foundation (EACF) programme, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jim Ley, Sparsholt’s Youth Chairman, coordinated the collection after clearing out his own club’s shed at the Norman Edwards Ground.
The other clubs in the Winchester Warriors district to donate kit were Compton & Chandler’s Ford,  Easton and Martyr Worthy, Hedge End, IBM Hursley, Otterbourne, and Twyford. 
David Waters MBE, Project Director of EAC Foundation, and a lifelong Sparsholt member, (pictured right with Jim Ley) was delighted and incredibly appreciative of the amount of equipment collected.
He said: ‘We are working with over 6,000 boys and girls from extremely deprived backgrounds and in slum schools in Nairobi and beyond. This equipment will make a massive difference to those children and young people in Kenya and we really appreciate all the Winchester Clubs’ efforts’.
Sparsholt are well known for their charitable work, having donated CALA HOMES sponsored team shirts to the Rwanda Women’s Cricket Team ‘White Clouds’ and annual fundraising activities including a 2016 Bike Ride in aid of the Hampshire Air Ambulance.

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