MCC doing its bit for charities
Date released: 7 August 2008
It has already been a busy summer of cricket at Lord's - but there's more than cricket at 'The Home of Cricket', with MCC doing their bit to help some deserving charities.
Back in early June, Chance to Shine invited 4,000 children from state schools to visit Lord's.
The children came from over 100 different schools. Most had never visited a cricket ground before, let alone 'The Home of Cricket'.
The children watched the LV County Championship match between Middlesex and Essex; visited the MCC Museum and enjoyed the Spirit of Cricket Factory too.
Mackenzie Lemon (11) and Sahil Shah (11) from Fair Field Junior School in Hertfordshire, were picked as mascots for the official coin toss with Middlesex's Ed Smith and Essex's Mark Pettini.
World record
Two more charities made the most of Lord's in mid-June.
Children from the Shooting Stars hospice got a special tour of Lord's The Shooting Stars children's hospice came on a special tour of Lord's.
One of MCC's own Tour Guides, Stan Hitchings, took a group of children for a behind the scenes look around the famous Ground.
Then the Brownies were in St John's Wood, as part of a World Record attempt.
Amarilis Espinoza from Guinness World Records counts the children Over 40,000 children around the UK sleeping out in different venues to raise money for Save the Children's Emergency Fund - in a world-record sized 'sleepover'.
The Emergency Fund is helping children sleeping away from home every night because of the cyclone in Myanmar (Burma) and earthquake in China.
Cricket action
MCC's Keith Bradshaw hands over the cheque to Cllr Hyams In late June, an eight team tournament at Lord's on 26 June raised £14,000 for local charity For Dementia.
Lord Mayor of Westminster, Cllr Louise Hyams, nominated the charity to be the beneficiary of the funds from the eighth annual MCC-hosted tournament - which has now raised over £120,000 for local charities.
The Princess Royal, Princess Anne meets some beneficiaries of the Help for Heroes charity Finally, at the end of July the Army v Navy played their centenary match at Lord's.
Help for Heroes made collections around the ground from a bumper crowd, collecting over £7,500.
