Since the three trustees set off on an African cricket adventure in 2005, CWB has coached over 180,000 children, promoting key health messaging and inclusivity in seven African Countries. The job is not done though, and we need your help to do more!

As CWB enters its 11th year as a charity, we have a number of exciting volunteering roles that will help grow the charity to empower more local coaches, deliver more social development messages and give more children the joy of playing cricket.

Last February CWB partnered with the MCW and 28 Too Many to deliver its first FGM project in Kenya. Female Genital mutilation also known as cutting is an abusive practice which affects an estimated 200 million women and girls worldwide.

It was 10 years ago when the three of us founding trustees set off to coach cricket from Cairo to Cape Town as CWB’s first project. We had no idea what to expect from those 7 months, let alone what would become of the embryonic charity that we had just set up. Fast forward 10 years later and its 180,000 kids coached across Africa and almost 4,000 new coaches to train them. I know I speak for Andy and Chris when I say it is one of the things we are most proud of.

Celebrating its’ 10th anniversary year CWB ran 5 projects in Autumn 2015, once again visiting Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Cameroon and Botswana. Over the course of the 5 projects our volunteers and in-country Ambassadors coached over 16,000 children and trained over 230 teachers and students as cricket coaches.

I have recently returned from CWB’s Autumn 2015 Project in Northern Uganda, and area where both people and infrastructure have been devastated by recent wars, in particular by the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army.

The Great CWB Cycle has been over a year in the planning and involves two men (CWB veterans Jamie Burton & Carl Ferguson) cycling 4,000 miles from Cape Town to Kigali in 100 days.

The Warriors film made by our good friend Barney Douglas now has the following UK releases, it would be great if as many people as possible could go along and support this amazing documentary.

If you can tweet about the film @warriorsfilm then all the better!

Use the hashtag #WakeTheLion which refers to a campaign to build a sports and education centre for young people in the Maasai village.

On Wednesday 11th November, we will be celebrating our 10th year anniversary with a pub quiz with a difference in the heart of London's West End. Find out how you can be there!

We will be celebrating 10 years of delivering HIV/AIDS awareness through cricket coaching in Africa in the Seven Dials club in Covent Garden. The event will be hosted by Jim Carter* of Downtown Abbey fame and the night will feature a raffle, drinks and nibbles.

This Sunday (13th September) sees the return of the Great North Run and four CWB supporters will be pounding the course to raise funds for our ambassadors programme.

Joining the legendary Mo Farah, the fabulous four will tackle the 13.1 mile course from Newcastle upon Tyne to South Shields. The Great North Run has now become the world’s leading half marathon and it is the first time that CWB have had charity spots in the event.