Our Community
We do our best to be at the heart of our community, providing support and facilities for local groups and organisations to flourish.
We work regularly with local organisations and charities, supporting a wide range of initiatives that benefit people in our community. We also work with charitable partners on initiatives such as mindfulness and wellbeing programmes, and helping older people stay active and alert through cricket.
We also have an enthusiastic team of volunteers that support the club in many ways, from planning and organising matches and practice sessions to keeping the ground and facilities in first class condition. This page highlights some of the recent work we've been doing.
Rothwell Arts Dance Academy
The Academy held their "Big Singing Showcase" in November at the club, with the room packed to the rafters for an emotional evening of fantastic singing!
According to Miss Vicky from the Academy: "There wasn’t a dry a dry eye in the house for most of the evening!"
Walking Cricket is flying!
With the opening of our new Cricket Dome, we've been running Walking Wednesdays together with Age Concern. The regular events aimed at over 50s combine an hours' gentle cricket followed by a relaxed chat and a coffee in our clubhouse afterwards.
Our Walking Cricket initiative is growing though, and recently @DarwenCC’s first ever
Walking Cricket team competed in an external tournament! This is a fantastic milestone for the club and a brilliant example of how cricket truly is a game for everyone. And how good do they look with their brand-new kits?! The new Darwen CC Walking Cricket strip looks absolutely superb — a real proud moment seeing the team representing the club in style.
A huge thank you to all of our amazing club sponsors. Your ongoing support allows us to run inclusive programmes like Walking Cricket and has helped us provide the new team kit — we simply couldn’t do it without you. Special thanks to Bobby Denning Cricket from Fylde Coast Cricket Coaching for his fantastic work and support in developing the programme with us, and to Age UK Blackburn With Darwen for their collaboration and continued backing.
If you’d like to get involved and join the fun, please get in touch — we’d love to welcome you down to the club.
Partnering with local schools
A key objective when planning and funding our new Cricket Dome was to partner with local schools to give more youngsters the opportunity to play cricket and dream of becoming stars of the future.
We're proud to have hosted several school visits already, and this will continue to be a regular occurrence as we support the development of local cricketing talent.