CRICKET: Cumnor boosted by grant for nets (From Oxford Mail)

CRICKET: Cumnor boosted by grant for nets

10:30am Friday 23rd December 2011 in Other Cricket

Cumnor CC have received a grant of £31,769 from Sport England’s Inspired Facility Fund towards their new three-bay practice net facility.

The money takes the Cherwell League club a long way towards their target of around £50,000 for the project.

It comes after Cumnor worked with Oxfordshire Cricket Board’s cricket development officer, Ashley Rump, to secure funding for the much-needed new facility, which will replace their out-dated existing nets.

Sport England’s Inspired Facility Fund has pledged to invest at least £52m in sports facilities across the country between 2011 and 2014.

Every facility that receives Inspired Facility Funding will carry the London 2012 Inspire mark to celebrate its link to next year’s Olympic Games.

Cumnor chairman Roger Mitty said: “We are absolutely delighted and feel very privileged to be amongst the first to benefit.

“The new state-of-the-art facility will serve many hundreds of players and young people in the years to come.”