Cricket club’s health project is world first
Sussex Cricket has become the first professional sports club in the world to launch its own bespoke online mental health and well-being platform for the community.
The Sussex Cricket Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub is launched today by Sussex and England cricketing legend Sarah Taylor, who herself has contributed to the groundbreaking innovation.
Developed in partnership with Frog Systems and with the support of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, the hub is a free online resource designed to help users find hope and support through the power of shared, lived experiences.
At the heart of the mobileoptimised platform is the ‘Champions Cinema’ - an ever-growing collection of thousands of videos of 60 seconds or less where people from the Sussex Cricket community and beyond share their experiences from an A to Z of topics that impact or can help with our mental health and well-being.
Contributors include Sussex Cricket players and staff, including Taylor, club cricketers, experts from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as well as individuals from a whole host of backgrounds and life experiences. The fully searchable library also provides links to trusted resources and further help relevant to the videos being viewed by a user.
The Sussex Cricket Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub is completely free to use by anybody with an internet connection and requires no registration, ensuring complete anonymity for users.
The platform came to life after a Sussex Cricket working group, chaired by club president Sir Rod Aldridge, was tasked with finding ways in which Sussex Cricket with its prominent role and significant reach in the community could make a meaningful and long-lasting contribution to addressing issues exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Sussex Cricket Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub is available now to anyone that needs it - visit sussexcricket. frog.net
Sarah Taylor, Sussex player, England World Cup winner and nominee for ICC Women’s Player of the Decade, said: “I know from my own experiences how helpful it is to share how we’re feeling when it comes to looking after our mental well-being. Sussex’s new platform is a wonderful way of taking the power of shared experience and using it to give as many people as possible support and hope.”