Platform Cricket

Platform Cricket is the operating name of The Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation (Company No. 08041993; Charity No. The charity's objective is to improve the lives of young Londoners through sport/physical activity. We have over 20 years' experience of managing projects that engage children from hard-to-reach communities in disadvantaged/urban areas, utilising sport for positive personal/social changes. Platform Cricket is the charity's flagship project which has grown to hold a significant presence in 20 London Boroughs. Our programme brings us into contact with almost children annually, including some of the UK’s most marginalised, vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Our work is predominantly based around central London, which includes all of the most densely populated UK boroughs, with a high population churn and the lowest amount of open spaces and sports clubs in the UK. We work in areas of London with very high ethnic and religious minorities, many of whom are relatively new to the UK and/or refugees & asylum seekers. We work with communities where standards of physical health and mental wellbeing are lower than average, and where there has been stubbornly low participation in sport and physical activity.