Sheffield Is Just the Beginning
Our care home sessions in Sheffield are going from strength to strength and Yorkshire, we're coming for you.
What are Green Letter Days?
Green Letter Day is a programme run by Dementia Adventure, a charity that has been providing supported breaks and holidays for people living with dementia for over 15 years. Alongside their holidays, they run Green Letter Days: carefully curated experiences delivered with trusted partners, designed to spark joy, build meaningful connections, and offer uplifting breaks from the everyday.
We are proud to be one of those partners. Cricketqube delivers adapted cricket sessions as part of the Green Letter Day programme, bringing the game into care homes for residents of all abilities.
Something special is happening in Sheffield. Over recent months, our Cricketqube sessions at Sheffcare homes have been building real momentum, and the results speak for themselves. Rooms full of residents cheering each other on. People who arrived hesitant leaving with smiles on their faces. Connections made, confidence found, cricket played.
This month, that momentum got an official stamp of approval.
A visit that said it all
In May, Manpreet Gill, Dementia Research Lead at Dementia Adventure, visited two of our Sheffcare sessions to see the programme in action. She observed residents in both homes fully engaged, supporting one another, and experiencing genuine moments of joy and connection through cricket.
Her verdict? The sessions were fantastic, and our Sheffield coach, Rob Heyes, was described as an absolute credit to Cricketqube.
"Fantastic sessions — and Rob is an absolute credit to Cricketqube."
Manpreet Gill, Dementia Research Lead, Dementia Adventure
That kind of feedback means a great deal. But what matters even more is what it reflects: sessions that are genuinely working for residents who deserve activities that are joyful, inclusive and well delivered.
What the sessions look like
Across both visits, what stood out most was the atmosphere. These are not passive sessions where a few residents take turns while everyone else waits. The whole room is alive. Residents cheer, offer encouragement, and celebrate each other. People who arrive uncertain find themselves smiling within minutes.
From "I can't do it" to doing it
One resident arrived highly anxious, repeatedly saying she could not take part. With patient, calm encouragement from Rob, she tried every activity and completed every single one. Her confidence visibly grew across the session. By the end, she was smiling.
The double high-five
Two residents worked together through a shared activity, cheering each other along. When they finished, they gave each other a big double high-five. A small moment, and an unforgettable one. Joyful, direct connection between two people, sparked by cricket.
This is what good looks like. And it is what Rob delivers, session after session, in Sheffield.
Expanding to a fourth Sheffcare home
Dementia Adventure has seen enough. Following Manpreet's visit, they are funding a fourth Sheffcare care home, with six sessions to be delivered by the end of August. Rob will be at the heart of it, as he has been throughout.
We want to say a huge thank you to Gordon and Kathryn Rawling at Sheffcare, whose support has been central to making this work. Their belief in what these sessions can do for residents has made all of this possible.
Yorkshire, we are coming
Sheffield is just the start. What we are building here, partnerships with care homes, sessions that genuinely work, evidence of real impact, is the foundation for something much bigger across Yorkshire.
Cricket matters in this part of the world. It is woven into communities, into memories, into identity. Our adapted sessions draw on all of that, bringing the game to people who love it but may never have expected to play it again. And the response tells us there is so much more to do.