Sport England has ‘very limited scope’ to finance projects with non-Lottery funds.
Mount Cricket Club say their plans for redevelopment have been hit by what they see as unequal access to grassroots funding
However, this inability to back bigger capital projects without using Lottery money is seen as a “disparity” by Abdul A Ravat, the player and development officer at Mount Cricket Club in Batley, one which he says has created “perpetual inequity” for clubs like his. “The only possible place for us to get funding is through our governing bodies, who are really relying on Lottery funding.“ is not something that we consider to be inside the boundary line. That places us in a state of perpetual inequity and disparity.
Mount has for many years been active within their local community and are committed to making cricket more inclusive, with initiatives across girls and women’s cricket, disability cricket and inter-faith encounters, most famously with the Vatican St Peter’s team. “We keep knocking on the door. We keep going around the circle and no one’s listening to us. So what are we supposed to do?
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