What is the Grassroots Cricket Fund?

The Grassroots Cricket Fund (GCF) has been established by Australia’s cricketers to strengthen grassroots cricket for generations to come, and will commit up to $30 million from player payments to be invested to support and strengthen Australian community cricket.

The GCF is a joint partnership of the players, the Australian Cricketers’ Association and Cricket Australia, all working to ensure cricket clubs around the country maintain their position as pillars of local communities by providing equipment and facility upgrade grants.

This season there will be two rounds of funding via the Volunteer & Equipment Support Grants. The first round opening on 25 October 2021 and the second on 13 February 2022. Clubs and indoor centres are only eligible in one of these funding rounds, Please refer to the GCF guidelines below for further information.