Carbon Centurions
Our 2021 Carbon Centurions project aimed to help 100 clubs become carbon neutral in 100 days. We didn’t quite succeed but got some fantastic publicity to raise awareness (see BBC video here). We a...
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Online cricket community launched
Our goal to help EVERY cricket club become carbon balanced takes another big step this week with the launch of Carbon Centurions. Carbon Centurions. provides an online community for the people that ma...
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Carbon Centurions XI
Carbon Centurions launched on Friday 2 July, when a team of players representing clubs supporting the initiative played a team from Eight Ash Green, the world’s first Carbon Balanced cricket club. ...
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Carbon Centurions on BBC Online
Thanks to BBC Essex for coverage of the launch of Carbon Centurions. Click the image to go to content....
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Carbon Centurions on BBC Look East
Thanks to all those who took part in the launch of Carbon Centurions on Friday, 2 July. The sun shone and the BBC did us proud with a fantastic piece on Look East. The game exceeded expectations by mo...
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Carbon Centurions in local press
Thanks to Matt Plummer and The Daily Gazette providing a half-page spread Carbon Centurions today. It outlined the work EAGCC has done over the past decade then highlights our launch on Friday 2 Ju...
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Carbon Centurions in The Guardian
Thanks to EAGCC’s Carbon Team of Sam and Anna Collins who featured in a great article in The Guardian today. It not only discusses the Carbon Balancing work the club does but also its other sust...
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First club registers for Carbon Centurions
We’re delighted to welcome Simon Gibbs and Kelvedon & Feering Cricket Club to the Carbon Centurions project! Simon has been a leading light at both Kelvedon and North Essex at many levels, e...
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Captain Tom 100 & MCC Foundation
Everyone remembers Captain Sir Tom Moore and his amazing fund-raising exploits for the NHS in the depths of lockdown. His memory lives on in the Captain Tom Foundation which continues to raise money...
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Cost or Investment?
Most sane people agree that taking action to fight climate change NOW will be a lot cheaper than fighting the consequences LATER. Paying to offset your carbon now isn’t a COST, it’s an INVES...
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Carbon Centurions launches on 2 July
Carbon Centurions launches on 2 July at Eight Ash Green Cricket Club with the President’s Game, a key part of the annual Cricket Week. Whilst the format might be familiar, the teams are ...
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Match funding for Carbon Offsetting
It only costs about £150 to offset the carbon for a typical small cricket club – less than a cricket bat! So what are people waiting for? Match funding means that whatever your club pays, someb...
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Top-down approach not working?
It’s exactly two weeks since we contacted all forty two league secretaries in England & Wales Leagues via Play Cricket asking they send us an email so we could send them information about our Ca...
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Crowd Funding on the way
There are 700 amateur cricket clubs in Essex. At an average cost of £100, we could create the world’s first Carbon Balanced amateur cricket community for £70,000! This sounds a lot, but it’s...
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Reece Topley back in form!
Great to see Reece Topley back in form for England this week after so many trials and tribulations in recent years. Reece and Eight Ash Green CC go back a long way and the club is eternally grateful t...
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New social media channels
To support our grassroots Carbon Centurions project, we’ve launched a dedicated social media platforms on Facebook and Instagram . Just click the links above or on our home page to join in the c...
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New Centurions scoreboard
We’ve recreated the cricket scoreboards of old to provide feedback on our Carbon Centurions project. It provides a daily update of number of people who register, clubs who commit and ultimately ...
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Sam signs up for Centurions
We’re delighted to have Sam Docherty join us as Project Intern for our Carbon Centurions project. Sam joins a long line of interns from nearby University of East Anglia (UEA). He is in his secon...
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Centurions march on
Carbon Centurions is the first project coming out of Covid and builds on our share our experience in amateur cricket in wider communities. Our aim to help 100 Cricket Clubs become Carbon Balanced in 1...
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100 clubs in 100 days?
Our Carbon Centurions project aims to help 100 amateur cricket clubs become carbon neutral in 100 days. Running between the 22nd of March and the 30th of June we’re using all our experience and ...
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