Let the Indoor Cricket Season Begin!
What are you doing this weekend? First Ball Academy is always excited about cricket, so when the outdoor season ends, we’re just...
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Chris Powell – Inspiring Us All
One of our main goals for FBA is to run aspirational events for young people – aiming to provide Opportunities and inspire Possibilities...
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Survey Results
11 months in, we are very grateful to our Members for their honest feedback about our work. With any new business, there are always...
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All-Girls After School Cricket
Ahead of the All Girls Academy Hub Launch at Coloma (the only girls state school in Croydon) we are already running exhilarating cricket...
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2022 Cricket Timetable
Following the festive break, we’re back this week and after weeks of good grub and too much TV we’re looking forward to running around! ...
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FBA Bowling Party
Bowling forms a fundamental aspect of cricket, but luckily not this kind of bowling – turns out Tenpin ain’t really our thing 😉 With...
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Croydon Girls Cricket Hub
FBA are hugely excited to announce the launch of our new Croydon Girls Cricket Hub, in partnership with Coloma Convent Girls School – the...
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Welcoming 16-18yr olds Inside
In November we launch our weekly Thursday Indoor nets session for 16-18 year olds. Many clubs do not support the coaching of young...
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Fishing for 1-2-1s?
During our first indoor season we faced lots of challenges with school hall availability during exam times. This left us calling round...
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‘Tis the season to play cricket (indoors!)
Let the Winter Season commence! FBA look forward to providing a regular schedule for young people aged 8 through to 18 years over the...
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Trevor’s T20 World Cup Adventure
Ever since a brief stop-off in Dubai on the way to Australia in 2011, with the (then small) kids, we’ve always nick-named it ‘Goodbye’....
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FBA Support Surrey Grassroots Awards
A little depleted through illness and date clashes, the FBA Fam turned up to the Oval to support the nominees and winners of the 2021...
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FBA Awards 2021
We could not have wished for better weather or turn out for our very first Awards evening. Only a couple of Members couldn’t make it, so...
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Midsummer Cricket Washed Out
Rain is usually an unwelcome guest when it comes to cricket – but today we don’t care!!! It was disappointing enough to cancel our first...
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Postponed Army Event
Usually us cricketer only have to worry about the rain. But Covid-19 has certainly been taking its toll on events this last year (and a...
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FBA PACE Crowdfunder is coming!!
At FBA we love getting people together, which has been pretty difficult recently as we all know – but these are exciting times,...
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FBA Calendar – Save The Date!
It is rare these days for us not to be excited – things are moving very quickly at FBA! And who wouldn’t get excited about booking dates...
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FBA Take On The Army
Do you ever have one of those days when you feel you could take on the world? Well, we’ve taken our first step and booked a date to Take...
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Open Evening Explosion
Yesterday was FBA’s first ever Open Evening and after just a week at Riddlesdown doing in-curricular coaching and a few early bird Member...
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FBA Training Dates Confirmed!
We are super excited to announce our training schedule from Monday April 26th. For the first few weeks we’ll be training hard but also...
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