G4S Events to provide security for Yorkshire County Cricket Club

G4S Events has secured a three year contract to provide services for The Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

The contract will see G4S provide a range of services both on match-days and year round for the Club. These services will include site security, pedestrian and vehicle search, ticket checking, hospitality stewarding and the provision of a ground safety officer. G4S will also be providing bespoke technologies to aid reporting and site management.

As part of this contract G4S will be responsible for the safety and security of around a quarter of a million cricket fans a year, including up to 17,000 thousand cricket fans on major match days such as the Pakistan v Australia Test Match in July, and the England v Pakistan One-Day International in September.

Mark Hamilton, Managing Director, G4S Events, comments: “This is an exciting contract for us and we are looking forward to working at such a prestigious cricket ground. We are confident that our wide range of event and security services offers Yorkshire County Cricket Club added value and will ensure a high level of service to the ground’s visitors.”

2010 is a big year for Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground. Visitors will see the culmination of the ground redevelopment works that have taken place over the last 18 months. The new Carnegie Pavilion will be officially opened during the Test Match in July and the stand that used to be known as the Lower Wintershed will sit below the new structure and reopen as a members’ enclosure renamed to honour Fred Trueman. These top class new facilities and spectator seating areas require top class stewarding and management.

Stewart Regan, Chief Executive of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, said: “We were keen to employ a provider that could offer an all round solution, one that went beyond traditional stewarding services, but also one with a local presence so that we can offer the highest standard of service to anyone visiting Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground. We’re delighted that G4S Events, given their commitment to employing from within the local community, can meet those demands. We very much look forward to working with them over the next three years.”

Contact details

• G4S press office (Media enquiries): 07973 672 649

About G4S

About G4S Events

G4S Events is Europe’s leading independent provider of event security and crowd management services providing security, event stewarding and consultancy services to conferences, exhibitions, community, sporting and live music events.

For further information on G4S Events go to www.g4s.com/uk

About G4S Secure Solutions (UK)

G4S Secure Solutions (UK) employs 18,500 people throughout the UK, working with a wide range of public sector and commercial clients, including 51 FTSE 100 companies.  The company provides specialist security solutions to over 5,000 customers across a range of sectors including: government, utilities, financial institutions, leisure and tourism, and transport.

For more information on G4S Secure Solutions (UK) visit www.g4s.com/uk 

About G4S plc

G4S is the world's leading security solutions group, which specialises in outsourcing of business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.

G4S is the largest employer quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. G4S has operations in over 110 countries and over 585,000 employees.

For more information on G4S, visit www.g4s.com