Last night we met with Richard Vakis-Lowe, HeartStart Malvern’s Founder and Trustee to present a cheque for £1,350. Richard said “I would like to thank Colwall Cricket Club members for their generosity on behalf of our charity. This is an incredible amount of money and as a small local charity it will help make such a difference to us. Our running costs are usually between £6K and £7K, so you can see how much your donation will mean to us”.

After nominating HeartStart Malvern as the club’s charity for 2025 you contributed at various events including the Family Fun Day as part of the Simon Oliver Memorial 6-a-side Tournament, Charity Tea and the Heads or Tails game at our Annual Dinner and Dance in November, as well as the collection boxes on the bar. HeartStart Malvern aims to increase the chance of surviving an out of hospital cardiac arrest by using volunteers to train members of the public in basic resuscitation techniques and placing public access defibrillators throughout Malvern and surrounding areas. Since its launch in January 2017 they have trained over 6,000 local residents and school children how to save a life through training and installed 36 public access defibrillators around Malvern and the surrounding areas.
We will be hosting another training session during 2026 so please let me know if you are interested in attending via e-mail to janeckendrick@hotmail.com.