Applying for a Bursary
Applying for a bursary to pursue coaching or officiating qualifications in netball offers numerous benefits that extend beyond personal growth. Firstly, enhanced qualifications could enable you to develop a deeper understanding of the game, allowing you to better train and mentor players, ultimately improving their skills and performance. Additionally, gaining recognised certifications would increase your credibility within the sport, helping to promote a culture of excellence and professionalism. Financial support from the bursary help towards course fees, making it easier for you to invest time and energy into your development.
Ultimately, this opportunity could not only enrich your own journey but also contribute to the broader netball community by fostering a new generation of players and officials who are well-equipped to succeed.
The aim of the bursary scheme is to assist with the increasing need for netball coaches and umpires at all levels and environments within Wiltshire. The bursary has been set up for members to have access to gaining and improving coaching skills and umpiring qualifications in line with England Netball coaching and officiating qualifications.
Please read the Funding Application Guidance information, download the application form and email your completed form to WCNA Chair and Treasurer.
With 3 million players annually, netball has the reach and responsibility to act. As a sport built by women, for women, it is working to remove the barriers that push girls out of the game.
England Netball Chief Executive Officer Fran Connolly said:
"We want netball to be somewhere that everyone can belong, flourish and soar and, as the sport continues to grow at all levels, there is no doubt that the question of kit is an important one. Mandating our inclusive kit guidance as policy is an important step in removing perceived barriers to participation and ensuring our sport is inclusive and open to all.
"Importantly, the policy does not ban the use of dresses, which remain a proud and recognisable part of our sport's history, but it does act to ensure that the dress is never the reason that someone feels they don't belong in the sport, removing kit policy as a potential barrier to participation in netball."
EN Members can read more about the policy in the E-News letter, or please head over to the NSW Website to view the full guidance and policy.
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Huge thank you to Mireille from SDNA for sharing this brilliant event and some of the lovely words she shared on the day with us.
'Your dedication to the growth of netball for all ages has been instrumental in providing amazing opportunities for huge numbers of girls, boys and ladies across the county and Swindon. You were the trailblazers, drivers, setting up clubs, providing the coaching, umpiring and offering a service to your communities. You laid the foundations for others to take over the helms and continue to drive netball developments and the value of the work that you have all initiated as volunteers with a love and passion for netball cannot be truly measured. The impact that you have all had on so many athletes over so many years cannot be truly measured but is often realised in conversations and reflections that we have with one another
The impact and imprint you have all had over decades is a testament to the wonderful people that you all are. Years of selfless service to support and develop netballers of all levels and abilities and provide inclusive opportunities.'
