Women's Softball

WOMEN’S SOFTBALL CRICKET FESTIVALS are back for 2025, sponsored by Emprise Teamwear!

DCF are looking to co-ordinate our 2025 Women’s Softball Cricket festivals, and are asking for an ‘expression of interest’ for clubs to take part in our 2025 offer.

For those that don’t know we have run Women’s Softball festivals for the last 7 years with huge success, in 2024 we engaged over 600 women in the game. 30% of which had their first experience of cricket and more than half of all participants were aged 41+.

The 48 clubs that got involved have found it to be hugely beneficial for the club. Softball Cricket is about:

1. No pads, no hard ball, no heavy bat, no complicated rules.
2. It’s a game for absolutely everybody, no matter your skill level, fitness, or age.
3. It’s only 8-a-side, so getting a side out shouldn’t be too difficult.
4. Perfect for players who have never played before!
5. E.g. Female members, partners, daughters, mum’s, aunties and more!
6. Not too serious!

Those clubs who run a Women’s Softball team are seeing lots of enjoyment from their players, we have fantastic feedback on our festivals every year!

As well as this, clubs are seeing huge secondary benefits such as extra membership revenue, an increased sense of family and club cohesion, extra volunteers and helping to diversify club committees!

Before we can arrange venues for the festivals, we’d like to map the demand across the county. To do this we need to find out which clubs are, and which clubs are not interested. Whether your club has took part in the programme in previous years or this would be the first time, it doesn’t matter!

If you and your club are interested in taking part and/or hosting in 2025, please could your club fill in this quick survey, it will take no longer than 2 minutes to complete. 

Please use the below link to fill in the survey! 

https://forms.office.com/e/FT9x1Tm6ji 

Please note, if your club are playing league cricket, the festivals will not clash, so you can do both. This may be a good opportunity for new players to gain experience.

This year we would like a combination of new and established clubs with Women’s sections to host as we look to continue the growth of the Women’s game.

Please could your club respond to this email/ survey, at the latest, by Sunday the 9th of February

Following this, we will be in touch to all clubs interested in hosting, so they can apply to host one of our festivals. Successful hosts will receive:

1. Support from DCF regarding arranging, planning, and setting up of the festival.
2. Possible DCF Staff member to assist on the day.
3. DCF will also help promote/ market the festival as widely as we can to maximise team entries.

If you have any questions about our festivals, please email charlie.storr@dcfcricket.com