The Lord’s Taverners is the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity. We work across the UK and beyond to ensure that disadvantaged and disabled young people have access to free sport and all the benefits it can bring. 

This has been an unusual and turbulent year, with full activity across all our cricket programmes in the first part of the year (October-March) before it was abruptly suspended by the COVID pandemic in mid-March.

From April-September weekly activity looked very different, as it was all channelled through our dedicated online hubs, Lord’s Taverners social media channels and zoom during lockdown. By the end of the summer, 70% of Super 1s and 50% of Wicketz hubs had restarted outdoor activity, and when we reached October limited indoor activity was also beginning in some locations, although many venues remained inaccessible. 

This year’s impact report will reflect the curtailed and adapted activity in a year when we were on track to increase activity and benefit more participants across all cricket programmes. Despite losing months of physical activity, awareness raising and taster sessions, we delivered our programmes to more participants than ever before.

With continuing COVID related uncertainty, it is impossible to predict what activity in the next year will look like. But we do know we will be doing everything we can to rebuild projects, activity and normality, connect with and support our participants, many of whom have been hard hit by COVID.