Sign up for NatWest CricketForce 2009

25 June 2008

England and Hampshire's Dimitri Mascarenhas joins in at Hambledon

NatWest CricketForce 2009 is your chance to help your club - so register today. Registrations have now gone live and it's an easy process to sign up for the weekend of April 3, 4 and 5.

A record number of clubs, 1,375, signed up for NatWest CricketForce 2008 with 85,000 volunteers contributing between £35-£40m in cash and kind, an increase of more than £5m on the previous year. The numbers keep on rising.

NatWest CricketForce sees volunteers of all ages coming together to support their local cricket club.

From building new pavilions to painting advertising boards, cleaning guttering to laying new cricket nets, there are a huge number of jobs which clubs need to undertake before the start of a new season.

A number of England internationals joined in the latest initiative with Ravi Bopara and women's captain Charlotte Edwards picking up a paintbrush at Hertford while Chris Adams and Luke Wright braved the snow at St James's Montefiore.

The next NatWest CricketForce will take place on the weekend of April 3, 4 and 5. It only takes two minutes to register for NatWest CricketForce so don't delay.