How Cricket is Saving Young Lives: Spencer Matthews Visits Lord's Taverners

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1:55So get ready. Go! Just practice swinging. Just having a practice. Today, I'm at a Lord's Taverners Super 1 session, a programme that was developed for children living with a disability to play cricket, make friends and learn lifelong skills such as independence and confidence. And thanks to funding from Postcode Lottery players, this programme reaches hubs all over the UK. We've got two teams. They're going to be batting, they're going to be fielding. You are going to be running for all of them. Right. So for every single player here, you're going to be doing the running. We need to see how good Spencer is, don't we?

2:34Easy, child's play. I ran 30 marathons in 30 days once. You've done the marathon? Yeah, twice. As hard as you can, remember, because you've got to make Spencer run. Hard as you can. So we've got one. Two. Four. So Super Ones is a grassroots programme. It's for children and young people up to the age of 25 and it's aimed at children who have any type of disability. So learning disability, hearing impairment, vision impairment, any physical disabilities, any of them. It's really important that young people with disabilities get opportunities outside of what you'd normally see as standard cricket.

3:17What we do is give opportunities for young people with disabilities and only for young people with disabilities. So everyone that you see here today has got a disability. And I think it's really important to say, too, is not all disabilities are seen. Yeah. So a lot of the young people today, you wouldn't know what their disability was, would you? No, not at all. One of the best things about Super Ones as well, it's free to access. So everything that you've seen happening here today is free for those young people to access. There's no registration fee. There's no ongoing fee to attend. And the opportunity to do week in, week out, free of charge activity, because of funding that we get from the postcode lottery, allows us to reach more young people.

3:59What kind of impact do you think Super 1's has on these kids outside of cricket? The big thing that we find is confidence. We have a participant who joined us four years ago and came to all the sessions with a teddy bear, didn't get involved, would not engage with people. well, she's now fully involved. She'll stand up in front of 100 people and talk. She's amazing. They feel like such a tight-knit group of friends, really. They're, like, really close. I imagine that some of them would have struggled to make friends before this. Yeah, absolutely. And what we hear from the participants that take part in our programmes is that sense of belonging.

4:39It's their safe space. They know that every young person here has a disability, and it's irrelevant to them. it's completely irrelevant to them. And they respect each other in a way that I think some young people possibly don't. We've got participants here today that have felt that they didn't belong in school and our programme activity has helped them build the confidence to reintegrate into education. So we just use cricket as a brilliant mechanism to change young people's lives. What's going on? All right, so we're going to give... Quite bad at this. What are we doing? This is Spencer. Everyone just say hi to Spencer please.

5:15Hi everyone! Hello! This is heads, shoulders, knees and ball. Right. So if I say heads, what do we all do? If I say knees, what do we do? If I say be a chicken, what do we do? Exactly! Jump in the air three times! Ball!

5:39What is the handshake? So we're doing this, we're doing this, and then I think it's a bit of this. You've got to go... Then they go on. Yeah, and then it's like this. And then it's... I'm going to forget all of that. That's some talent you've got out there, by the way. You nailed me to the ball. So tell me a bit about your journey and how you came to be involved with Lord Taverners. I think it was about six years ago. I was actually watching The 100, and I saw this flyer. I think my mum got this flyer from my school for Super Ones, and she was like, oh, it's free, because obviously we don't have that much money so a free opportunity to play a sport that I love was a great opportunity and so when I first joined there was two great coaches they they helped me a lot to find my passion for the sport and my confidence before I joined tabs I was very quiet I never spoke to anyone I was very antisocial how was your mental health before you came to Super Ones?

6:41It wasn't very good. I was in quite a dark space. Like I said, I was kind of locking myself away from people. I didn't talk that much because I didn't know how to talk. And yeah, so my mental health was pretty bad. Five years ago, when we were having what we call the dark days, she was literally an empty shell of herself. She wouldn't talk to us. She heard voices in her head. But yeah, through finding Super Ones, she's been made friends and you started to see her rebuild herself again. And then she decided that she had a future in cricket. It saved her life. With Tabs, I think I found my confidence and I've been able to make friends.

7:24Like people are saying I'm the big sister of the team. And I think that's just the main thing about Super Ones. It helped me to be included and to bring my confidence back and not be in that dark space anymore. Her personality just always shines out. She loves to be the person that helps. Even yesterday we had a mini match with brand new players and the opposing team had brand new players and she was the first one there to help them know where to stand and show them how to hold the bat, which is amazing. I wouldn't be thinking I would be coaching people. I don't think I would be a team leader.

7:57I didn't think I'd be doing all this. I thought I'd just be sitting down and watching. But the fact that I'm actually getting involved shows that I'm a completely different person now.

8:11So this is... What? You just changed it. Let's start.

8:27You got the ones, you know, clearing straight out the stadium on camera, did you? Yep. Okay, good. I was nearly bowled out several times by the children, which is great. I'm glad I wasn't. I think they played quite well. They're good, aren't they? Yeah, they're good. You must be seeing lives being changed in real time. Yeah. So across the UK, we reach over 30 ,000 young people annually, and you're just seeing a small part of it today. And the stories that you'll hear today can be replicated all over the country. It's amazing. the players of the Postcode Lottery really support us. We've had over£8.5 million from those players funding our programme activity, which means that we can do this for longer and we can reach more young people.

9:13That's what we want to do. You know, we don't want to stop now. We want to keep growing what we're doing. The brilliant thing about the Postcode Lottery funding is that it's not restricted. And when I say unrestricted, it means that as an organisation, the Lords Taverners can decide where to best spend the funding. And that doesn't happen with all funding opportunities. Quite often we'll be restricted into sort of saying where, you know, funding should be spent. So this is a brilliant opportunity for us to be able to distribute the funds as we see in the most effective way. All around. There we go.

9:47That's right. That has just been a really incredible morning. I feel the benefits of Lord's Tavern as Super 1s. I've met some really incredible people. I mean, Imogen seems like a completely changed person from before to now. I've met her incredible mother, Caroline, the coach. Gabby, who looks after the people here. I genuinely am slightly lost for words about how incredible a morning this has been. To see these kids, all of whom are at a natural disadvantage when it comes to being included in sport. So tight-knit, super friends, amazing community. and thanks to postcode lottery players, opportunities like these get to grow and grow throughout the country.

10:30I think it's really special. Say, pick the words! Pick the words! Yeah! Yeah!

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