NDO County Updates

County –

Date – For meeting 3.3.17

Overview Netball Development Officer sections and priorities of the County Plan 2.1. Playing the Game Schools 2.2 Playing the Game Clubs 2.3/2.4 Playing the Game HE/FE 2.5 Playing the Game Community 4. Competition + Events 5/6/7 Workforce, Volunteering, Coaching, Officiating 2.1. Playing the Game Schools (Hi5 workshops, school games, primary affiliation.)

The H5 School Games final will take place on 3rd April at SDE, Bournemouth.

There appears to be sufficient interest for another H5 workshop so I am looking into this possibility. 2.2 Playing the Game Clubs (New Junior Clubs U11 & 11+, CAPS, Satellite Clubs, B2N Clubs,)

Peeks NC continue to work towards their Bronze CAPS accreditation.

2.3/2.4 Playing the Game HE/FE ( Active Colleges / UNO )

Netball Now sessions continue at Bournemouth Uni and at Glenmoor and as part of the Arts Uni Bournemouth ‘Give it a go’ project, in conjunction with Active Dorset.

The last league fixture for those taking part in the HE/FE league at SDE, Bournemouth is this week. (22nd February). 2.5 Playing the Game Community (B2N, Netball Now, Walking Netball)

The B2N programme which was running at St Edwards school in Poole has now finished. This was extremely successful with 110 ladies registered since the sessions started in June 2016. (91 of the ladies were new to Netball – had not played for at least 12 months). Some ladies are now training with Lilliput NC and some have continued with B2N sessions at QE which started just recently. There is also an opportunity for them to play friendly fixtures as a group/team and these are being arranged now.

The QE, Wimborne sessions started on 2nd February and so far 22 ladies are taking part.

A brand new B2N programme is starting this week, 23rd February at Redlands CSH, Weymouth. This is being run by SWDNL. Thanks to the league for their support with this.

Walking Netball in Dorset has had a fairly slow start compared to other counties and this has been mainly due to a lack of trained hosts. However, its great that there are now two programmes running – in Sherborne and Ferndown. There are 9 ladies registered for the Sherborne programme and the sessions at Ferndown are due to start this week.

4. Competition + Events (B2N Festivals)

8 teams took part in the Netball Challenge Cup for 6th form, college and uni teams. Congratulations to Twynham A who were winners on the day.

5/6/7 Workforce Volunteering, Coaching, Officiating, ( courses CPD, YUA, POYP, YNO Goalden Globes

Into Officiating courses are being delivered to students at The Blandford School, Poole High and .

An IO course took place on 8th January in Budmouth. 16 umpires attended. Thanks to Kelly Browne for tutoring.

Other news/actions

 Board vacancies – Competition Director

Karen Peaty Dorset Netball Development Officer February 2017