Annual Report 2018-19 i CONTENTS 01 2018-19 Highlights 02 CEO and Chairman’s Statements 04 Participation 06 Coaching 08 Officiating 10 Goalden Globe Awards 12 Vitality Roses 14 Performance Pathway 16 Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 18 Vitality Netball Superleague 20 Community Competition 22 Membership 24 Commercial and Marketing 28 Governance, Compliance and Inclusion 29 Heritage 30 Regions 32 Financial Review Vitality Roses VNWC2019/international photos and Vitality Netball Superleague Winners photo: Getty Images ii 2018-19 HIGHLIGHTS Commonwealth Games GOLD medallists England Netball crowned Sports Organisation of the Year at the BT Sport Industry Awards Vitality Roses awarded Team of the Year and Greatest Sporting Moment at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards Vitality Roses ranked 2nd in INF World Rankings Significant reduction in reliance on public funding with 50.4% of revenue generated from our own sources, a real term increase of £1.1m from 2017-18 Back to Netball 10 year anniversary 100k Back to Netball participants 1,403 Walking Netball participants from the Women’s Institute 5,506 students engaged in the UNO programme 1,200+ deaf and disabled participants Over 900 new Level 1 and Level 2 coaches qualified 655 new official qualifications 33 players selected for the Roses Academy programme 106 grants awarded for athletes through Backing the Best, SportsAid, TASS and DiSE Vitality announced as title sponsor of the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 Sky Sports and BBC confirmed as UK broadcast partners for the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 500 “Pivoteers” recruited for the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 Over 100k members for the fourth year running Partnerships signed with Vitality, Jaffa Fruit, Nike, Gilbert, Red Bull, The British Army, Elastoplast and Oasis iv 1 CEO AND CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENTS 2018-19 has been one of the biggest and most exciting years for England Colin Povey The Board has continued To top all of this off we have been Chairman of England Netball to maintain best practice in preparing for the Vitality Netball Netball to date. As reported in last year’s Annual Report the Roses wrote governance. During 2018-19 the World Cup, which by the time their names into the nation’s sporting history in April 2018 when they won This has been a truly remarkable Board have reviewed, improved you are reading this report will year for England Netball. and released new governance, have taken place at the M&S Bank the Commonwealth Games and beat home favourites Australia. Shortly safeguarding and compliance Arena in Liverpool in July 2019. I after, they moved to second in the International Netball Federation World Following their success at the policies. Dedicated training, anticipate that netball fever will Rankings, their highest ever position. Commonwealth Games it was support and resources have also sweep the nation once again and fantastic to see the Vitality Roses been rolled out to our members hope that those of you who visited being awarded with numerous and volunteers. the tournament were thoroughly accolades in 2018-19. The Vitality entertained and inspired by the event. Roses were announced as Team of Following changes at the 2018 Joanna Adams With participation rates rapidly means we can take back control the Year at the 2018 Sunday Times AGM members will pay their I would like to thank Jo and her CEO of England Netball growing across our Netball of our relationship with fans, really Sportswomen of the Year Awards, the England Netball, Region and team, my Board colleagues, Family and performance on the understand what they want at BT Sport Action Woman Awards, the County membership online rather our members, partners and all The Vitality Roses have attracted international stage continuing our events and, most importantly, Sports Journalists’ Association (SJA) than via their clubs from the 2019- volunteers and athletes involved in global media attention and inspired to exceed expectations, the improve the overall fan experience. British Sports Awards and the BBC 20 season. This will help members the sport during what has been an thousands of people to get growth and development of our During 2018-19 we sold in excess of Sports Personality of the Year Awards effectively manage their own data exceptional year. involved with netball. We have seen infrastructure of Coaches and 24,000 tickets. where they also won the Greatest and control their engagement with continued growth in membership Officials has never been more Sporting Moment of the Year Award. netball. During 2018-19 we have and increases in participation across important to the sport. Following All of these great achievements been busy consulting with you our programmes. extensive research and consultation wouldn’t have been possible without It was not only the Vitality Roses and developing systems that will across the netball and sporting our amazing staff, volunteers, that were recognised; England manage this process alongside In May 2018 we activated our landscape we launched new members, coaches, umpires, Netball was crowned Sport offering new and enhanced online partnership with the Women’s Coaching and Officiating strategies participants, sponsors, athletes and Organisation of the Year at the services for our members. Institute for the nationwide delivery that set the direction of travel in fans. So, I would just like to take this prestigious BT Sport Industry of Walking Netball programmes. these areas over the coming years. opportunity to thank all of you for Awards for the unprecedented This fantastic partnership, which your continued support. success in 2018-19. was featured on BBC Breakfast, After recruiting a new commercial demonstrates the commitment team in 2017-18 we have driven that both organisations have in forward with developing new and empowering women across the existing commercial partnerships. In country. The project, funded by October, Vitality renewed its existing Sport England, is helping to improve title partnership with England the well-being of thousands of Netball. This announcement, women across the country. which is one of the largest deals in women’s sport in the UK, is another We enjoyed a month of celebrations huge and positive moment for the in September as our Back to Netball sport from a grassroots to an elite participation programme turned 10 level. The new agreement means our years old. Women across the country senior England team are now known turned up to their regional sessions as the Vitality Roses. to play netball, eat cake and celebrate their love of the sport with a special In other big news, we welcomed a synchronised Back to Netball birthday new partnership with Nike, which session held nationwide in October. will see the Vitality Roses sporting We also welcomed our 100,000th Nike kit for all international games Back to Netball participant in going forward. This is a huge step November. This is a massive milestone for the sport and we’re delighted to and it is an honour to see how much be joining the Nike family! enjoyment all of the women involved get from this programme. Here’s to We have also introduced an in- the next 100,000! house ticketing platform. This 2 3 PARTICIPATION 10 year anniversary and welcoming the 100,000th participant to Back to Netball celebrated alongside the continued growth in other programmes and the development of Bee Netball for under 11’s. UNIVERSITY WALKING NETBALL NETBALL OFFICER BEE NETBALL BACK TO NETBALL • 8,120 new to the sport • 5,506 participants engaged Over the last year a major priority has been creating Bee Netball to be a strong, innovative and importantly child-centred way to engage even more • 912 programmes delivered across the • 44 student volunteers primary aged children. new to programmes brand new country nationwide the sport delivered clubs Since the last report, Bee Netball has been coming to life and we’ve spent 11,621 1,083 82 • 1,403 participants from Women’s The UNO programme has had a time gathering insight, designing ways to upskill coaches and teachers, Institute – 97% were new to netball very positive year with a record It has been another fantastic year for Back to Netball with record consulting with parents, clubs and schools as well as sharing the approach number of students getting involved numbers of people joining our sport through Back to Netball. 11,621 Walking Netball is a slower version of the with members at the Road to Liverpool events during July and January. The in netball. We have also spent time new netballers have got involved through the programme; this is 12% game; it is netball but at a walking pace. programme is carefully designed in line with our philosophy for U11’s: building stronger relationships with up on last year, showing Back to Netball really is still a fantastic way The game has been designed so that the universities themselves so that • Child centred: developing the child first, netballer second. In the early to grow our sport. During September we spent the month celebrating anyone can play regardless of age, ability we can continue to engage more stages of netball, confident, proud, resilient children are more important 10 fabulous years of this brilliant programme. The celebrations or fitness level. culminated in a nationwide, synchronised special birthday B2N session students in the future whilst also than a 6-year-old being able to do a technically brilliant chest pass. Walking Netball is currently our fastest ensuring that at the transient point on 10/10/2018 with every session enjoying a live hook up to another • Inspire: inspiring girls to become part of the netball family session so that we all celebrated together. growing programme and over the last in a young person’s life they don’t 12 months we’ve seen a 106% increase in lose touch with netball.