On Friday, September 20, the Warwickshire Cricket Foundation welcomed 13 Cricket Collective winners to Edgbaston to receive their awards from Gavin Larsen, Warwickshire County Cricket Club’s Performance Director.
The Cricket Collective Awards celebrate volunteers who go above and beyond to help make cricket happen. Without these individuals, cricket would not function as it does at these clubs.
The Tackling Climate Change award recognises a club or community organisation that is addressing the threat climate change poses to cricket, by making sustainable changes to operations, adapting their facilities and/or engaging and educating their local community.
Dorridge Cricket Club was awarded for their efforts in planting trees, hedgerow whips, and utilising solar panels.
Earlier this year, Dorridge Cricket Club opened their new ground and pavilion. They committed to minimising their environmental impact and implement sustainable changes to their operations.
Dorridge has worked with Solihull Council to organise volunteers from Lloyds Bank to plant 200 trees and around 700 hedgerow whips in the new grounds, as part of Solihull Council’s ‘Planting our Future’ scheme.
The club’s recent Crowdfunder campaign for their new pavilion received match funding from Aviva to help address climate change. This match funding will be used for installing solar panels and batteries, with the aim of generating most of the energy needed to make the new pavilion as energy self-sufficient as possible.
In the coming years, the club is committed to exploring more environmentally friendly practices.
In Warwickshire, we have already seen the effects of climate change in recent years. Increased rainfall and flooding have specifically affected many cricket games this year.
The Warwickshire Cricket Foundation supports the Environmental Sustainability Plan for Cricket developed by the England and Wales Cricket Board. You can read the plan by clicking here.
Congratulations to Dorridge Cricket Club; we look forward to supporting them on their environmental journey.