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CRICKET SCOTLAND
WHAT: The Spirit of Cricket for the Common Good is a partnership with GCU and Cricket Scotland. It has involved establishing a free grass roots cricket club for children in an area of North Glasgow (Springburn) where cricket is not widely played and an adult indoor Tapeball league. In 2019-20, Project Glasgow saw the Wicketz Hubs, supported by the Lord’s Taverners charity extended to two further diverse areas of Glasgow. WHY: Cricket Scotland’s ambition is to diversify its core base. To engage with Black and minority ethnic, migrant and refugee communities in Glasgow through sport. The Wicketz hubs were established to remove barriers to participation that the BAME community in Glasgow had identified. WHERE & WHEN: Wicketz Hubs run weekly on Thursdays (Springburn), Fridays (Pollokshields) and Sundays (Govanhill) throughout the year. WHO: The partnership is driven by Ammar Ashraf, Cricket Scotland Engagement Officer and Nauman Javaid, Development
Officer leads the Wicketz Hubs. OUTPUTS: 105 Wicketz sessions were delivered in the three Hubs in 2019-20 and this included 15 life skills workshops. 159 children were engaged across these sessions. There was also an inter hub competition and 104 taster sessions in schools with a further 345 children. OUTCOMES: Over the course of the three years, this partnership with Ammar has allowed GCU to engage with more communities, to offer more volunteering opportunities for our students and has given the students the chance to play cricket and made links with the work of Cricket Scotland and our research. It has led to other initiatives such as the Diabetes awareness sessions and screening for type 2 diabetes in Govanhill during 2018. Through the participation initiatives of the Wicketz Hubs and Tapeball League, more young people and adults are now playing cricket in Glasgow, improving their health and wellbeing and expanding their social connections.o
Springburn Cricket Scotland Wicketz Hub, 2019.
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474. GCUCPE_11/20
The Wicketz hubs addresses the challenge of getting young children active but they are also about the wider health and wellbeing of the young people and the social aspect. As a result of the partnership: • SHLS Sport and Exercise Psychology
are working on a student placement agreement with Cricket Scotland performance players.
• Cricket Scotland Community Development Officer supported a Psychology student with their research into refugee/asylum seeker access to mental health services. The Development Officers at the Hub facilitated access to the children at two of the Project Glasgow training sessions in October for SHLS Safeguarding Heathcare Infections Preventions researchers to gather more information around child language brokering (times when children translate/interpret for their family and other adults) in health
care. The team did fun activities like drawing pictures, running around with stickers instead of formal interviews. Generally speaking, the main sort of outcomes of the project were primarily confirming that brokering is something that happens and therefore that this is an important health inequality as well as of course engaging with lots of different people. The impact of this is to highlight this as in issue and also to help the team shape and apply for any relevant funding for future projects. One of the researchers said
“my experience the cricket hub were very friendly and welcoming and I would absolutely recommend other teams at GCU to work with them if they are doing something that might be fun and interactive for the children and young people there.”
INTO GCU had set up Saturday social cricket in the ARC for their International students who had expressed an interest
in playing cricket but this had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 lockdown but we hope to resume this and students delivering life skills sessions to the Wicketz Hubs and Cricket Scotland’s partnership at our Community Science events in the new academic year. COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT GOALS: 2. Community Engaged Learning; 4. Sustainable Engagement. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: 3. Good Health and Wellbeing; 10. Reduced Inequalities; 17. Partnership.LINKS: • Common Good First. • Lord’s Taverners Wicketz Hubs.• Evening Times article about
Project Glasgow.• Wicketz Hub Residential.• Sport Scotland article.
GCU Student Cricket Team with coach Ammar Ashraf of Cricket Scotland, 2018.
CONTACT: Susan Grant, GCU CPE Coordinator [email protected] /[email protected] gcu.ac.uk/theuniversity/communityandpublicengagement@GCUEngagement
