United Kingdom-based sports recycling charity, Lord’s Taverners has donated sports kits and equipment worth over N30million to Community Sport and educational Development (CSED) Initiative.

The donated kits and equipment, which weighed 998 kilogrammmes was received by the Trustees of CSED Initiative. It is the fifth batch of sports kits that Lord’s Taverners have donated to CSED Initiative since 2019. In total, CSED Initiative has received sports kits weighing over three thousand kilogrammes from Lord’s Taverners.
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Most of the donated sport kits items are for cricket, netball, badminton, football, casual sportswear and tracksuits. Among the prominent institutions that have benefitted from the kits donated by Lord’s Taverners in the past are Edo State Cricket Association, the cricket team of ABU Zaria, the cricket team of IDPs Uhogua and Cameroonian refugees in Ogoja, Cross River State.

Also, some selected schools in Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom and Taraba states have benefitted from the free cricket kits that were donated by Lord’s Taverners to CSED Initiative.

In a recent email correspondence between a Trustee of CSED Initiative, a Project Manager of Lord’s Taverners, a representative of the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) acknowledged the role the kits that Lord’s Taverners donated to CSED Initiative played in the development of some of the cricketers who recently played in the Nigerian female cricket team at the recently completed T20, U-19 Cricket World Cup in Malaysia.

Nine out of the fifteen cricketers are players from Edo State whose cricket Association received 250 kilogrammes of donated cricket kits from CSED Initiative in April 2019.

CSED have also donated cricket items to a cricket project that has supported the development of the two cricketers from Akwa Ibom State who featured for Nigeria in the Malaysian tournament.

During an interview with journalists, a representative of CSED Initiative stated that the new batch of donated equipment from Lord’s Taverners said: “The donated kits will enable CSED Initiative to train three hundred P.E. Teachers in 2025. So, it is going to be a win-win situation for grassroots sports.”

However, CSED Initiative have been informed that the Lord’s Taverners sports kits recycling project is going to close in March 2025, as a result of financial constraint.

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