Volunteering

Netball simply wouldn’t happen without the time, talent and expertise of an estimated 26,000 incredible volunteers at every level of the game. We’ve been conducting research and listening to netball volunteers over the last few years in order to launch, our first ever, volunteering strategy.

It is underpinned by two strategic goals which are:
1. Support: Develop an effective infrastructure
2. Activate: A Volunteer Development Model

To learn and discover more about the strategy download a copy here.

Why is this strategy important?

England Netball want to promote and support the netball volunteer network to effectively recruit, retain, recognise and celebrate the incredible achievements volunteers support us to achieve, across the country.

To do all this we need a clear vision and framework which this strategy provides through giving us the platform to:

• Deepen our understanding of the volunteering network to, raise the profile of it, and ensure there is a clearly defined strategic approach to supporting those within it.
• Enable volunteers to access the right role, in the right place, at the right time bringing skills and expertise to netball, aligned to their motivations and passion for the sport.
• Ensure volunteers have a meaningful and worthwhile volunteering experience in netball where they feel valued.

The Volunteer Development model, consists of six bubbles that groups motivation for volunteers all centred on Love, the most common word used to describe how they feel about netball.