At Next Level Cricket Academy we are dedicated to building partnerships across the cricketing community, to champion significant messages and improve our offering to the girls we coach and the wider women’s cricket community.
Her Game Too
Her Game Too (HGT) aims to spread a message of hope and equality. Having initially been set up to tackle discrimination in football, HGT has expanded into other sports including cricket. Their mission is to support, encourage and inspire women and girls in the game and whilst more opportunities rise in the sport, still shine a light on the barriers that remain.
Having partnered with their very first cricket clubs, Gloucestershire CCC and Western Storm, in May 2022, HGT continue to build connections with local clubs and now with Next Level Cricket Academy.
Our aligning ethos to promote and improve the accessibility of women and girl’s cricket is pivotal to our partnership. The work that HGT does to foster a safe community for cricket is also vitally important. Having recognised the need for a safe and supportive way of capturing incidents of sexism/misogyny in the game, they have developed a reporting platform which is now available on our website and aims to help stamp out sexism in the sport we love.
Fab Little Bag
Fab Little Bag (FLB) is on a mission to reshape the narrative around period product disposal. Having been born from a transformative experience and faced with the reality of flushed tampons and pads causing widespread harm, FLB created a simple, yet effective, environmentally friendly solution. By empowering people in their most vulnerable moments and becoming a symbol of trust and understanding they strive to replace awkwardness and anxiety with a calm, relaxed confidence.
Next Level Cricket Academy now joins the FLB movement which includes Scottish Rowing, Irish Rugby Football Union and Yorkshire Cricket as we take a lead in our community advocating for period positivity and support. Through our joint values of innovating, educating and advocating for sustainable solutions to period product disposal, we are united in our passion to remove barriers to women’s sport.
