Blind Cricket England & Wales (BCEW) are actively seeking new funding to support our important work and have sponsorship opportunities available across our programmes.
Blind Cricket is a unique and valuable part of the game as our ethnically diverse group of around 500 male and female players represents a wide spectrum of ages who all have one key thing in common, because of their severe level of sight loss they are unable to safely play any other form of cricket.
As such a high proportion of severely sight impaired people are unemployed (73% for those severely sight impaired, over 90% for those registered blind), team sport is a vital part of our players social lives and provides benefits in confidence and health as well as a sense of purpose. Blind Cricket has by a wide margin the highest participation levels of any outdoor team sport for blind and visually impaired people and is therefore a vital part of many of our players lives.
As of March 2026 we would welcome sponsorship of our:
• National League, which has two divisions,
• Development Leagues – Midland, Northern & Southern
• National Twenty20 Cup, and our
• Development Twenty20 Cup which is currently played across the Midlands & North.
We would be happy to discuss including the name of your organisation in the title of any of these competitions that you are able to support as well as adding your organisation to the banner on our website containing details of our current funders.
We are also in search of a sponsor for our Umpires and Scorers panel, umpires and scorers are essential to blind cricket as the players are not able to umpire or score their own matches and therefore if we cannot pay for these officials then matches cannot take place.
For a full list of where we currently have teams, please click here.
And to contact us about any of these sponsorship opportunities, please click here.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our existing funders:
The Primary Club
www.PrimaryClub.org
The Primary Club are blind cricket’s biggest supporter. As well as providing funding to our more than twenty clubs they also fund BCEW’s development work, the blind cricket balls supplied to our clubs, trophies and medals, The Primary Club Cup competition that has run every year since 1979 (excluding the 2020 season which was lost to Covid) & provide funding towards the cost of managing our all Women’s team, the UK Women’s VI Cricket team.
We remain exceptionally grateful to The Primary Club and to all of their members for all that they do to support our game.
The Spectacle Makers Charity
www.spectaclemakers.com/charity
In 2026 the Spectacle Makers Charity have begun supporting our women’s VI cricket development programme, this is an exciting new partner for our work and we look forward to working with The Spectacle Makers Charity throughout the year. We sincerely thank them for supporting this programme.
England & Wales Cricket Board
The ECB exclusively fund & manage the England Men’s VI Cricket Team.
ECB also provide BCEW with some general domestic game funding.
We thank the ECB for their support
