It’s our fifth year partnering with grassroots cricket charity Chance to Shine, so this year’s Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week was extra special. Taking place from June 18-22, thousands of children took part in our celebration of cricket – with hundreds of events and activities hosted by schools and communities across England and Wales.
We’ve got some big bits of news to share about plastic. The plastic we’ve been using to seal our tea bags is going to be replaced with a renewable plant-based material. We’re starting to switch over now, and the aim is that all our UK tea bags will have switched by the end of 2019.
We are proud to support the Ethical Tea Partnership and have been providing essential funding since 2014 to support the ETP - UNICEF Improving Lives Programme in Assam, which is helping to improve the safety of girls living in tea communities across Assam.
National Cricket Week is run by the cricket charity Chance to Shine. Each year, it sees thousands of schools and communities across the country will take part in a week of cricket-themed activities to celebrate the sport and encourage children to play and learn through cricket all year round. We've been the partner for five years, and we're proud to say that since 2014, over 4,000 schools have taken part. Today's big event (Tuesday, June 19) is a girls’ cricket festival at Frenchay Cricket Club in Bristol. Girls from across the south west have been invited to come and play cricket and be coached by two inspirational players from the England Women’s Cricket Team, Fran Wilson and Beth Langston.
Tea grown in Assam is delicious – and it’s an important part of our Yorkshire Tea blends. This week our Sustainable Sourcing Manager (Krisztina) and our Senior Tea Buyer (Suzy) have been there visiting some of our main suppliers.
We're sponsoring National Cricket Week again this year - and the event, which is run by the cricket charity Chance to Shine, will take place from June 18-22. To help get the message out, we took England Cricket’s all-time highest Test run scorer and former captain Alastair Cook to cricket-mad Rusthall Primary School, near Tunbridge Wells.