OUR STAFF
Will Hammond
Director
Will joined Cricket Builds Hope in February 2022. He has a professional background in management consulting and transformation in the public sector. He is passionate about social impact and has experience working for a children’s charity in Kenya. An avid cricket fan, he toured Rwanda and played at the Gahanga cricket stadium in 2018.
Joseph Karemera
Country Manager
Joseph is a medical doctor who also has rich experience in Cricket development as an ICC qualified coach. He is moved by how much cricket brings people together, overcoming adversity whilst installing hope to the young generation. Joseph is responsible for developing and overseeing CBH’s social programmes in Rwanda.
OUR PATRONS
JONATHAN AGNEW MBE
BBC Cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew, better known as ‘Aggers’, is the voice of cricket on the radio having joined the BBC Test Match Special team in 1991. Formerly a first class cricketer for Leicestershire, and capped for England Test and One Day teams, Aggers was a founding patron of the charity when it was launched in 2011.
HEATHER KNIGHT OBE
World Cup winning England captain Heather Knight is an all-rounder who made her international debut in 2010. She became captain in 2016 and lifted the Women’s World Cup at Lord’s a year later. Heather has visited Rwanda a number of times to coach cricket and became a patron of the charity in 2014.
BRIAN LARA
West Indian cricketer Brian Lara is one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He still holds numerous records, including highest individual score in a Test match (400 not out) and highest individual score in a first class match (501 not out). He visited Rwanda in 2009 and was a founding patron of the charity when it set up in 2011.
EBONY RAINFORD-BRENT
Director of Surrey Women’s Cricket Ebony Rainford-Brent is an expert summariser on BBC Test Match Special. After captaining Surrey women and playing for England, she retired in 2011 and worked for cricket charity Lord’s Taverners. Ebony became a patron of Cricket Builds Hope in 2018.
SAM BILLINGS
Wicketkeeper batsman Sam Billings is the captain of Kent County Cricket Club and an England international in Test, One Day and T20 formats. He became a patron of Cricket Builds Hope in 2017 after playing in the inaugural Cricket Builds Hope tournament at the Gahanga Cricket Stadium in Kigali.
MAKHAYA NTINI
Retired South African fast bowler Makhaya Ntini is one of the country’s best loved sportsmen. He was the first black cricketer to play for South Africa, and reached a hundred Tests. He travelled to Rwanda in 2015 for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Gahanga Cricket Stadium and became a patron of the charity shortly afterwards.
OUR TRUSTEES
RICHARD NICOLL
Richard became the chair of trustees in 2014. He is a retired lawyer who is heavily involved with promoting cricket participation and development in London through North Middlesex Cricket Club's Senior and Junior sections and through the years he spent on the Committee of the Middlesex County Cricket League.
ALBY SHALE
Alby co-founded the charity in 2011 in memory of his father Christopher, who came up with the idea of supporting cricket in Rwanda. Alby was project director from 2015-17, during the construction phase of the Gahanga Stadium. Once the stadium was complete, Alby stepped down as project director but continues on the Board of Trustees.
GRAEME LOTEN
Graeme is a retired diplomat, who served as British Ambassador to Rwanda and Burundi from 1998-2001. He is the chair of the CBH governance subcommittee.
ALAN SENDOREK
Alan is Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs at The Arch Company, the UK’s largest small business landlord. He previously worked for QPR FC on their new stadium and training ground projects and as a Special Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron in 10 Downing Street.
AMY HOLMES
Amy heads up operations for a London-based advisory firm advising technology entrepreneurs and investors. She previously worked for ten years for Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne on a number of strategic international projects.
SARAH LUDLOW
Sarah is a Partner at Portland Communications. Prior to this she was a Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss. She first visited Rwanda in 2009 as part of the Conservative Party Social Action project, Project Umubano.
sophie Langman
Sophie is Partnerships Director at Liverpool FC, having previously worked as Head of Corporate Partnerships at Cancer Research UK. She has also worked with football charities in Sierra Leone and Ghana. Sophie is a keen triathlete and a member of the Thames Turbo Triathlon Club.
richard jackson
Richard works for Arqit, the Quantum Cyber Security company managing external affairs and communications. He previously was Head of Operations in 10 Downing Street for Prime Minister Theresa May. Terrible at playing cricke,t he is an active member of the Carlton Club Cricket Club.
Shruti Saujani
Shruti is the Senior Manager - Cities & Volunteers at the ECB. She delivers a key part of their city programme linked to their South Asian Action Plan, namely engaging and recruiting 2,000 South Asian females into volunteering roles, along with developing cricket’s gamewide volunteer strategy. Shruti's lifelong passion is to create equal opportunities in the game and she dedicated her dissertation to understanding the barriers that women from South Asian backgrounds face in sport. Her dedication for a more equal playing ground in cricket has seen her appear on the BBC and Sky.
CHARLIE BARLOW
Charlie is a former private and investment banker, turned entrepreneur. After working for the likes of Morgan Stanley and HSBC, he founded pioneering telehealth company Health at Hand in 2016, focusing on improving the access to primary healthcare for the under-served populations of the Emerging Markets. Charlie has a passion for both Africa and cricket, and regularly turns out for his local village team, Appleshaw CC, in Hampshire.
RICHARD MEDDELTON
Richard was a career commercial banker who now runs his own consulting practice helping businesses to grow as well as holding several trustee roles in the charities and education sectors. A keen, amateur when it comes to sports, Richard has been a CBH Trustee since spring 2022.