We are raising money this year to transform the cricket experience on offer to students at York. We want to undergo a much-needed overhaul of our training equipment and to provide a high level, specialist ECB coach to assist us in our development as a team. Any donations you are able to make to help us achieve this will be much appreciated.

Our Story

Cricket and Yorkshire have an historic connection and one that runs deep within the university. The UYMCC has been an integral part of sport at York since the University’s inception. We have 3 teams who compete in the Universities competition (BUCS) and in Roses. We were awarded Roses Club of the Year after a dominant performance in the first Roses since Covid in 2022.

The UYMCC caters to a wide-range of students at York, including those who have had a life-long affinity with the sport and those who are taking it up for the first time at university. In order to keep providing such a rewarding experience for our members, we need to be able to provide high quality training sessions, through both equipment and coaching. This year we have been unable to fund a specialist coach due to costs. This follows on from last year in which we required contingency support from YUSU in order to keep the club afloat. This is something we desperately want to avoid again.

Your donation will enable us to ensure that every member, regardless of ability and circumstance, will be both able to participate and improve their cricketing skills.

Where will the money go?

To contract a Level 4 ECB coach for our winter training programme, it would cost us in the region of £3,000-£3,500. If we raise more than this then we would look to invest in long-term, once-in-a-generation capital equipment to sustain the club for the coming years. For example new indoor mats (£800 each), an outdoor batting cage (£2,500), cricket kit for those who do not and could not afford it (£750 in total), an automatic ball feeder for our BOLA bowling machine (£400).

Why is this so important?

Cricket has long been seen as an elitist sport and we want to make this sport accessible to everyone regardless of ability, socio-economic background, race, or sexuality. We aim to purchase personal cricket equipment that all members can use. All members will also have exposure to high-level coaching.

Moreover, we hope this money would also help to boost the performance of the Club. We have endured some challenging years on the field, with several relegations and a triple-defeat at Roses in 2023. By employing a high-level coach, we hope to return to the top levels of university cricket.

The Challenges

Below are some of the challenges we will complete as part of the week:

• 12 hour net
• Catching competition
• Yorkshire Dales Walk
• Club Triathlon
• Any challenges York Sport Union set us!

Find us here

If you would like to keep up to date with all our amazing fundraising, you can follow us on

Instagram: @theuycc

Youtube: @UYMCC

Help us succeed!

We would love you to donate as much or as little as you are able. All donations are hugely appreciated. Your donation could also help us unlock fundraising challenges which will help us reach our goal even faster (you can see these on the challenges page).

If you are looking to support an individual athlete or challenge please put a message with your donation saying who!

Alternatively, if you are unable to donate then please do spread the word by signing up as a Challenge Week Ambassador for our club, and sharing our social media posts to your own socials so as many people as possible can read about our efforts!