YORKSHIRE Cricket and Morrisons are teaming up to help tackle holiday hunger this Easter by delivering free meals and cricket sessions to families in Bradford.

The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (YCF) - the official charity arm of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club - will continue its partnership with Morrisons through its innovative Crick-EAT scheme.

The scheme aims to support and improve the wellbeing of young families across West Yorkshire who are most at risk of experiencing holiday hunger.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Children enjoy one of the previous Morrisons/Yorkshire Cricket sessionsChildren enjoy one of the previous Morrisons/Yorkshire Cricket sessions

By teaming up with Bradford-based Morrisons and their Community Champions, Crick-EAT is able to serve up more than 700 nutritious free lunches and more than 48 hours’ worth of fun cricket sessions from professionally-trained coaches this half-term.

The Crick-EAT partnership will run across three venues across Bradford from Monday, April 11 to Friday, April 22 including; Park Avenue Cricket Ground, BEAP Community Partnership and Karmand Community Centre.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Beth Cook, health and wellbeing manager for Yorkshire Cricket Foundation, is looking forward to the sessionsBeth Cook, health and wellbeing manager for Yorkshire Cricket Foundation, is looking forward to the sessions

Beth Cook, the Health & Wellbeing Manager for YCF, said: “We’re pleased to be able to continue supporting families across Bradford through our Crick-EAT scheme, alongside Morrisons.

With the cost of living heavily weighing on the minds of families across the country, it has never been more important to ensure that we can support families where we can

“Therefore we are teaming with Morrisons once again to provide nutritious free lunches this Easter.”

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The Crick-EAT partnership with Morrisons has already provided more than 14,000 meals and over 800 hours of cricket coaching. Morrisons independent charity, The Morrisons Foundation, donated more than £24,000 in June 2021 to further aid the scheme.

Rebecca Singleton, customer and community director at Morrisons, said: “We are once again delighted to be supporting the YCF.

“Crick-EAT is a brilliant project and we’re pleased that our local Community Champions are supporting the volunteers and donating over 700 lunches to young families across Bradford to help combat holiday hunger.”

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Northern Diamonds player Beth Langston will be taking part in the sessions in Bradford over Easter Northern Diamonds player Beth Langston will be taking part in the sessions in Bradford over Easter

Cricket fans will be pleased to hear that Northern Diamonds cricketer Beth Langston and Yorkshire County Cricket Club men’s 2nd XI will also be on hand to help over the Easter holidays.

 

High profile Yorkshire supporters of Crick-EAT, who have helped deliver meals first-hand since the programme launched in 2019, include Bradford-born Adil Rashid, the Yorkshire County Cricket Club player and England cricketer. Bradford East’s MP Imran Hussain has also previously helped out with the scheme in the city.

For more information on Crick-EAT, email Beth Cook, the Health & Wellbeing Manager for the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation, on beth.cook@yorkshirecricketfoundation.com.