This year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Access Bank Day here at Guards Polo Club. This is a fabulous partnership between Access Bank, Nigeria's largest bank by customer base, the Nigerian-based Fifth Chukker Polo Club and UNICEF. It raises substantial funds to support a school in the Kaduna region of Nigeria. The school started with 500 pupils but now offers education to some 14,000 students aged from 6-15.

Access Bank Day will feature two games. A high-goal match for the Access Bank Cup featuring high-goal players and polo patrons who are either based in Africa or who have businesses in Africa. The first match of the day, for the Khalifa Cup, is a medium-goal contest along a similar format. “We reach out to the polo fraternity,” explains the Cup's founder, Adamu Atta, “but we do encourage the polo to be entertaining too [for players and spectators]!”