Welcome to St Peter’s Cricket Club! If your young player is interested in cricket, either as a new joiner or as an existing member, then you are in the right place: St Peter’s is a thriving club based right in the heart of Brighton and our core ethos remains: more cricket, for more people, more often.

Our efforts to grow our junior programme and encourage our young players to love cricket have been recognised with awards at county level from the Sussex Cricket Foundation and nationally from the England & Wales Cricket Board, and we can look back on the 2025 season as one of further development, on and off the pitch.

Most importantly, we played almost 200 games of cricket across the junior Girls and Boys teams, and ran another 40-strong, full All-Stars programme for budding cricketers aged five to eight. Some games were winning experiences, some were learning ones and we enabled the players to get involved and play to the level they wished to reach - from knocking about with some friends all the way through to county standard.

We will continue to put more focus on participation and pleasure and than simply the binary outcome of results. If players leave a match or training session safe, happy and ready to come back for more, having learned something and developed, then we view that as success.

This does not mean outcomes are irrelevant to us. We know they mean a lot to some players, but we believe our approach enables players to express themselves more freely and enjoy themselves more fully and therefore help them achieve their own personal goals.

This is reflected in how the U14 Boys won their league, and thus successfully defended their crown in that age group, while the U15 Boys reached the county final of the ECB U15 T20 cup competition, after a sterling run. The U14 Boys also reached the Bowl final of the Sussex Junior Cricket Festival for the fourth year in a row, while the U9-U10 team qualified for the finals of the Softball Cup for the second straight season.

The ongoing availability of communal kit-bags for the U9, U10, U11 and U12 boys’ age groups helps with the transition to hardball from softball cricket and spare parents, carers and players as much cost as we can, and helps us to get as many players involved as possible.

We also continue to improve the facilities at the club ground at the Preston Park Velodrome, so that players, parents and carers and supporters get the best experience possible, and the Committee is still working on the redevelopment of our clubhouse having gained planning permission some six years ago.

Several junior players, boys and girls, are on the Sussex CCC Pathway, and we continue to grow our roster of home-grown coaches who have Foundation Level 1 or Core Coach 2 qualifications, as well as First Aid training, again so that we can give maximum support to the junior players.