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FALKLAND AND MEIGLE NAMED DISABILITY CHAMPION CLUBS

Cricket Scotland @CricketScotland
June 5, 2023 10 months
FALKLAND AND MEIGLE NAMED DISABILITY CHAMPION CLUBS

Cricket Scotland is pleased to announce that Falkland Cricket Club and Meigle Cricket Club have both been named as this year’s Disability Champion Clubs in a bid to create more opportunities for people with disabilities to get involved in cricket.

Launched in 2021, the Disability Cricket Champion Club Programme was developed to help cricket clubs open their doors to everyone in their community.

Falkland and Meigle are the seventh and eighth clubs to partake in the programme, joining Westquarter & Redding, Strathmore, Dumfries, Livingston, Fraserburgh and Galloway.

Funding provided by Beyond Boundaries will support the clubs by providing guidance, support, resources and equipment. The programme will enable them to welcome and support individuals with additional needs and varying abilities to play cricket, follow the game, officiate and volunteer.

Each Disability Cricket Champion Club receives a free kit bag containing playing equipment and a range of balls and markers to help facilitate coaching drills and games to help the club flourish.

Falkland Cricket Club said: “We are absolutely delighted to become a Disability Cricket Champion Club.

“We feel privileged to have been given this opportunity to bring cricket to a wider audience and to promote inclusivity.

“We are very much looking forward to working with Disability Sport Fife to deliver an exciting programme.”

Meigle Cricket Club said: “We are thrilled to have been approved as a Disability Cricket Champion Club.

“Building on our long-standing youth and men’s sections, our aim is to grow our women’s section and have a disability cricket section up and running in time for our 150th anniversary in 2026.

“We are looking forward to working with the local community and Cricket Scotland to achieve these aims over the next couple of seasons.”

Cricket Scotland’s Disability Cricket Development Officer Barry McGeachy added: “It’s exciting to welcome both Meigle and Falkland Cricket Clubs into our Disability Cricket Champion Club Family.

“To have eight clubs, after only three years, now actively offering cricket for participants with disabilities is an amazing achievement and true testament to the hard work that’s been put in by our established Champion Clubs and the passion being shown from our new inductees.

“I’d also like to say a huge thank you to Beyond Boundaries for their unwavering support and continued funding of this brilliant program.”

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