England Netball Annual Report 2016/17 England Netball Netball House 1-12 Old Park Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 2JR T: 01462 442344 F: 01462 442343 E: [email protected] www.englandnetball.co.uk Facebook.com/EnglandNetball Twitter @England_Netball Instagram England.netball 18. Company status The Company was incorporated on 10 February 1983 under the Companies Acts as a company limited by guarantee and not having share capital. Each voting member undertakes to contribute a sum not exceeding £1 to the company in the event of it being wound up. The number of voting members as at 31 March 2017 was 5,178 (2016: 5,191). 19. Pension commitments The Association has a defined contributions personal pension scheme for staff and has been auto enrolling staff since January 2014. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the Association in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the Association to the fund and amounted to £122,569 (2016: £107,984). Contributions totalling £24,761 (2016: £22,674) were payable to the fund at the Statement of Financial Position date. CONTENTS 20. Commitments under operating leases At 31 March 2017 the Company had future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases as follows: 2017 (£) 2016 (£) Land and buildings Not later than 1 year 35,362 84,000 Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years 141,448 280,000 Later than 5 years 353,620 455,000 530,430 819,000 2017 (£) 2016 (£) Other Not later than 1 year 39,061 45,718 Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years 4,649 17,945 43,710 63,663 During the year ended 31 March 2017 amounts totalling £130,848 (2016: £155,511) were payable by the Company in respect of non-cancellable operating lease commitments. 21. Controlling party The Directors consider that there is no controlling party. 2 England Netball Annual Report 2016/17 England Netball Annual Report 2016/17 59 Chairman’s 26 Vitality Netball 04 Introduction Superleague 06 Chief Executive 30 Marketing and Officer Commercial 08 Adult 34 Membership Participation 37 Safeguarding 12 Children and and Compliance Young People 38 Community 14 Coaching and Competition Officiating 44 Your Regions 18 Volunteers 46 Directors Report 22 England Roses and Financial Statements England Netball Annual Report 2016/17 3 CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION An evolving landscape connections with the grassroots of sport in local A new home for England Netball The landscape in which we are operating has clubs, schools and communities as well as bringing 2017 also saw us take the decision to move the changed significantly during the year. experience of what it takes to beat the strongest England Netball head office to the SportPark at Southern Hemisphere opponents. The announcement that England Netball will receive Loughborough University largely on cost grounds. a significant reduction in grant income for the next Further changes to the Articles of Association are due I like the idea of bringing our office based staff four year funding cycle presented some serious to be considered at the AGM. It is essential that these closer to the home of the England Roses. We will challenges, although netball fared better than many amendments be approved and adopted to maintain lose a number of hard working and loyal members other sports. Notwithstanding our reduced funding the support of Sport England and the revised level of staff as result of the re-location and it would we remain grateful to Sport England in recognising of funding we have worked so hard to secure. I hope be remiss of me not to thank them for all their us as a high performing National Governing Body members will once again respond positively. efforts on behalf of England Netball and for their (NGB) and recognise that they too are under understanding of the bigger picture as we strive More global competition considerable pressure. The sport funding climate has to adapt to the new funding regime. changed irrevocably and we must adapt if we are to England Netball has an important role to play in maintain the growth in our sport. supporting the International Netball Federation (INF) Congratulations and delivering great sporting events on the global As an organisation we must become less dependent I would also like to offer my sincerest congratulations stage therefore I was delighted to see the launch of on central funding and push forward with an to Joan Mills who was awarded an MBE in the an important new international competition with the aggressive commercial strategy to capitalise on Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Congratulations also first official Netball Quad Series being played out the growth in women’s sport and to emphasise our go to Sue Collin and Pam Hoyle who were awarded with Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. unique strengths as the leading female team sport. Honorary Life Membership in 2016/17 and Gary It was during this Series that we were able to mark Burgess who was inducted into the England Netball Making necessary changes a momentous occasion for one of our England Roses Hall of Fame. Each has played a major part in the I would like to place on record my sincere thanks to players. Appearing in the mid-court to collect a netball story over many years and it is wonderful the England Netball membership who recognised record 129th cap was Jade Clarke. Having made her to see their efforts acknowledged publicly. the changing circumstances and supported a motion debut back in 2003, we were all delighted to see As I write, the young Roses are playing in the for an immediate increase in Membership fees at Jade deservedly receive so many plaudits when she Netball World Youth Cup out in Botswana, and an EGM to assist with protecting the core elements overtook Kendra Slawinksi’s long standing landmark. it is great to see how much support they have. of netballing activities and our support of the It is critical that our England Roses regularly play the Whilst out there, England Netball was also given It has been an extremely grassroots of the game in particular. best sides in the world as we strive for improvement the opportunity to present an update on our plans busy year for everyone Another significant change came in the form of at the elite level in the build up to our home Netball for Netball World Cup 2019 to the INF Congress. Sport England’s new code for sports governance World Cup in Liverpool in 2019 when our aim will be Thanks for all you do involved with England which applies to all NGBs and many other institutions to deliver the best ever female World Cup. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the contribution that wish to seek government funding. England During the year we instigated a strategic review Netball and I would like Netball remains driven to meet the highest standards of my fellow England Netball Board members and of the Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL). in the way it administers the sport and has continued our whole volunteer network all of whom give their to thank the board, We hope that a stronger VNSL will not only improve to modernise its governance frameworks. time freely and which keeps our sport running. On the pathway for our elite athletes but also provide your behalf I would also like to thank the executives, As part of our determination to adopt a skills-based Sport England, members great role models to inspire the next generation. members of staff and our commercial partners, approach to Board appointments we added Ashley Whilst it was sad to see Yorkshire Jets drop out together I hope we look forward to another of staff and our ever-willing Giles to the list of Board Directors in December of the competition it was great to welcome new successful year ahead. volunteers for their 2016. Ashley has an exceptional background in teams from champions Wasps, Severn Stars and elite level sport and brings expertise across all Sirens. The tragedy of the Manchester Arena continued support. aspects of a professional environment he also terror attack saw the final moved to Birmingham’s knows the importance of inspiring the stars of the Barclaycard Arena for what was a pulsating future by creating great role models and retaining conclusion to the competition. Colin Povey We strive for improvement at the elite level in the build up to our home Chairman Netball World Cup in Liverpool in 2019 when our aim will be to deliver the best ever female World Cup. 4 England Netball Annual Report 2016/17 England Netball Annual Report 2016/17 5 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER World Cup on the horizon Brilliantly, membership numbers reflected the In February 2017 a first ever ‘dual broadcast’ The 2019 World Cup itself is starting to loom large continued growth of our sport – once again more match was aired as England versus Australia at with plenty of round table discussions being held than 100,000 netballers affiliated for the season. the Quad Series was screened live from The SSE between England Netball, the INF and officials Arena, Wembley on Sky Sports and BBC Two. New funding environment from Liverpool as to how we will host a tournament This was also watched by a sell-out crowd in Despite these successes, England Netball, befitting of the competition and the city it is to be London with close to 8,000 fans packed in to alongside all other NGBs, has had to accept that held in. The next two years will no doubt fly by! witness a dramatic encounter.