Charity Cricket Event raises £13,150 for Havens Hospices

Essex Big Bash and AJ Chambers have raised over £13,000 at their inaugural charity cricket event for Havens Hospices. Essex Big Bash is a T20-format cricket match between Accountants vs Lawyers, played at Hadleigh & Thundersley Cricket Club.

The match featured former England cricketers, Devon Malcom and Adam Hollioake, who played for each team.

Congratulations to the Lawyers team, who were winners by just 1 run! The Lawyers batted first and reached 205. The Accountants then fell just one short at 204.

Many thanks to:

• The headline sponsors of the event – Accountancy Age, BTMK Solicitors, Insight Strategic Associates.
• The players and firms who took part and raised so much through their efforts:

Lawyers team:

Devon Malcolm, Matthew Grindley (Birketts LLP), David Carter (Nairnsey Fisher & Lewis), William Gubbins (Underwood Solicitors LLP), Lee Hibell (Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP), Kishen Bhimsingh, Alejandro Worthington, Lakmal Walawage (all JMW Solicitors LLP), Yasmin Daswani (gunnercooke), Miles S (Sriharans Solicitors)

Accountants team:

Adam Hollioake, Foyez Ahmed, Aaron Hawkins, Stuart Chipperfield (all MHA), Simon Hedges (BPSL), Asad Shah (Moore UK), Dhamender Singhal (Flintham Mackenzie), ​Muhammad Usman (Usman & Co.), Neville Pearson (Adauxi).

Special mention to Andrew Hilliard, Stuart Whiter and Rory Bysouth who created and organised the event. And Lydia Plews and Rossella Inguscio from Havens Hospices.

Credit to Bruce Basudde (Photography).

SX Sports amazing work on the kit production and Solopress for kindly printing the programmes.

Organised by AJ Chambers. In aid of Havens Hospices. Kindly Sponsored by Accountancy Age, BTMK Solicitors and Insight Strategic Associates.

Andy Hilliard, Managing Director, AJ Chambers:

“We are strongly committed to supporting our local community via charitable fundraising and sponsorship activities. Charitable giving and events are important to our staff, our inclusive company culture, and wider corporate social responsibility.

We donated and purchased four elephants from Herd in the City, in Southend-on-Sea.and regularly visit Essex Schools to deliver our Pathway to Employment Programme.

We are delighted to be hosting this exciting cricket event for the first time, supporting Havens Hospices by raising as much as we can to assist their important work.

Rossella Inguscio, Corporate Fundraiser, Havens Hospices:

“At Havens Hospices, we believe in making every day count for the families we care for across Essex. We provide specialist care to children and adults living with incurable conditions and our Care Teams support them and their family throughout illness, death and bereavement, in the comfort of their own home or at our hospices, Fair Havens or Little Havens.

“Being part of the Essex Big Bash – organised by AJ Chambers – allows us to not only raise awareness of the care we provide in the community but to also raise vital funds towards our care and support, which so many local families rely on. We are thrilled to join this event and look forward to seeing you all on the day.”

 Visit the Essex Big Bash website here: https://www.essexbigbash.com/