Chesterfield Cricket Club in luck with the lottery
by Mike Taylor / Alan Rowley, 24th April 2003

Chesterfield CC are celebrating this week after receiving a grant of £5000 from the National Lottery's Awards for All programme. This will allow the Club to focus on the development of young cricketers which is central to its new policy of investing in the youth of Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.

In a ground-breaking partnership, the Club’s newly appointed Development Officer, Andy Brown, will be leading coaching sessions at Brookfield School and its network of feeder schools.

However the benefits of the National Lottery grant are available to all young people in and around Chesterfield as the Club will be holding coaching sessions at Queen’s Park on Friday evenings – free of charge.

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These sessions start at 6 pm and will be run with qualified coaches normally under the leadership of Andy Brown and boys and girls aged from 8 to 15 are encouraged to give it a try.

All being well, the Club’s bar will be open for any parents who will be able to watch the coaching and relax with a drink in the evening sun.

Club Chairman Mike Goodwin is pictured receiving the Award certificate from Committee Member Jim Crowther who took the lead in submitting the successful application.