Chance to Shine Street is a a unique cricket offer for young people in urban areas.
Chance to Shine Street brings cricket to thousands of young people in urban areas. It uses the game to increase aspiration, promote social cohesion and create opportunities in diverse communities. There are 165 Chance to Shine Street projects across the country, of which Surrey delivers 11 x Youth projects and 4 x Young adults projects.
Chance to Shine Street is a fast-paced version of the game played with a tapeball - a tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape - in small, enclosed spaces. With six players per team and 20 balls per innings, it is cricket’s answer to five-a-side football.
Why do we offer Chance to Shine Street?
We feel that every child, no matter where they live, should have the opportunity to play cricket. Chance to Shine Street is a counter for a lack of accessible clubs and green spaces in inner-city areas and aims to make cricket accessible to young people throughout the country.
Street cricket offers a different way into the sport, with 87% of players not part of a traditional cricket club when they joined the sessions. Some - around 1 in 10 - do go on to play at a traditional cricket club or enter park-based T20 leagues but for most the Street project becomes their club.
The projects run after-school or at weekends, they are completely free, players don’t need to bring any equipment and can wear whatever they like. The sessions run in sports halls, youth clubs, parks and community centres for two age groups - Chance to Shine offer two programmes, a youth programme aimed at children aged 8-15 years, and a young adult programme, aimed at 16–24-year-olds.
