The Peter Hughes Foundation
Nancy Hughes at Ealing Cricket Club
Billy Hughes at Ealing Cricket Club

Helping underprivileged children play cricket

The Peter Hughes
Foundation

Nancy Hughes XI v Billy Hughes XI
The Annual Charity Match
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In his memory

Forty years at the nets

Peter Hughes spent forty years coaching young cricketers at Ealing Cricket Club — early mornings, long evenings, and every weekend in between, teaching straight bats and patient minds to generation after generation of players. Alongside his wife, Erica, he gave a lifetime to the club and the community around it.

The Peter Hughes Foundation was founded in memory of them both, to carry that same spirit of generosity forward: helping children who might never otherwise get the chance to play, learn, and belong to a team.

Peter and Erica Hughes at Ealing Cricket Club

Peter and Erica Hughes at Ealing Cricket Club

Every year, one fixture

The Nancy & Billy match

Nancy and Billy Hughes at Ealing Cricket Club, beside the bench dedicated to their grandfather Peter Hughes

Nancy and Billy, beside the bench dedicated to their grandfather at Ealing CC

Captain

Nancy Hughes XI

v
Captain

Billy Hughes XI

Each year, Peter's grandchildren, Nancy and Billy, captain their own sides in a friendly and fiercely contested charity cricket match. Family, friends, and members of the wider cricketing community come together for a day of cricket, in the spirit their grandfather spent his life encouraging.

Every run scored and every pound spent goes toward the foundation's cause: supporting children's charities that give young people the same start in life, and in the game, that Peter gave so freely to others.

Where it goes

Supporting underprivileged children's charities

Funds raised through the match are donated each year to charities that support underprivileged children — helping with the kind of opportunity, coaching, and encouragement that shaped Peter's own life's work.

This year's charity

Capital Kids Cricket

This year we are supporting Capital Kids Cricket, which uses cricket, life skill workshops, and mentoring to improve and develop the physical, social, and emotional health and wellbeing of disadvantaged children, young people, and families from deprived areas across London.

Target £10,000
Raised so far£4,000

 

Chosen each year

A children's charity is chosen annually to receive the proceeds of the match, so the foundation's support can reach different communities over time.

Raised together

Match-day donations and sponsorship are combined into a single gift, made in memory of Peter and his wife.

In their spirit

Every pound is a small extension of forty years of coaching — giving another child the chance to pick up a bat for the first time.

Get involved

A few ways to help

  • DonateGive directly to this year's charity match, however much you're able.
  • SponsorSupport the match itself, from kit and pitch fees to the tea interval.
  • Spread the wordTell friends and family about the foundation and this year's fixture.