StreetChance supported by Barclays Spaces for Sports has been shortlisted for a Sport Industry Award, Europe’s largest commercial sport awards.
The joint initiative between The Cricket Foundation, Barclays Spaces for Sports, Cricket for Change, Positive Futures and the Metropolitan Police Service was nominated for The Community Programme Award after a rigorous two-week judging process.
Manchester United Foundation, The Everton Foundation and England & Wales Cricket Board are among the other nominations for the category and the winner will be announced at a star-studded ceremony held at Battersea Evolution on 13th May.
The judging panel, chaired by BBC presenter John Inverdale, included former chief press secretary to the prime minister Alastair Campbell, LTA Chief Executive Roger Draper and one of Britain’s greatest Paralympics athletes Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson.
Nick Keller, Chairman, Sport Industry Group said: “The prestigious shortlist has been carefully selected from a record number of entries of an impressively high standard, and to have earned a place represents an immense achievement.”
Coaches’ success
Two Cricket for Change coaches that help deliver StreetChance supported by Barclays Spaces for Sports scooped national awards at the end of 2009. Adam Hall won the National Young Coach of the Year, supported by Sky Sports and England & Wales Cricket Board, for ‘helping the lives of disadvantaged young people through the medium of cricket’. Meanwhile, Alex Bassan picked up the Young Leader of the Year Awards at the ‘2009 Chance to shine Achievement Awards’.
There was further good news on the coaching front as StreetChance apprentices passed their Level 2 coaching courses. John Charles, John Courtman, Perry Sophocleous and Ram Tanna are now delivering coaching sessions in schools involved in the StreetChance programme.