Lord's Taverners
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The Lord's Taverners is a UK youth cricket and disability sports charity. Its charitable objective is to empower and positively impact the lives of young people facing challenges of inequality.
Lord's Taverners was founded in 1950 by a group of actors and BBC employees, led by founding chairman and member No. 1 Martin Boddey and including John Mills, Jack Hawkins, John Snagge, Roy Plomley, Gordon Crier and Brian Johnston. The founders were inspired by watching cricket from the Lord's Tavern pub in St John's Wood Road, close by Lord's Cricket Ground.
The charity's headquarters are located in London, with support in over 50 regions. The Lord's Taverners also benefit from the fundraising activities of Regional Committees and its 5,000 members, many of them working in sport and entertainment. The list includes Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir Alastair Cook, Sir Andrew Strauss, Greg James, Miles Jupp, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Jonathan Agnew and Mike Gatting.
History
The Lord's Taverners was formed in 1950, the week after the West Indies' victory over England in the second Lord's Test Match. Initially, money raised each year was given to the National Playing Fields Association (now known as Fields in Trust) on the recommendation of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron and 'Twelfth Man' of the Lord's Taverners.
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