Bramcote Netball Club

If your child would like to join the junior section then please come along to a new player session which is always the first Friday or Sunday of each month (see the Junior Team page for details of training venues for different year groups). Please note that this is the only time a new player can join as it enables us to give a proper induction to the club. Please note that at present we have space to welcome new players who are in years 4 to 7 and limited availability for years 8-11.

Background

Bramcote Netball Club has been running as a senior club since 2008 and due to the increasing success of attracting and retaining senior players we expanded in March 2013 to have a junior section to try and increase participation of local girls in netball. The club is voluntary run with only the coaches being paid and we rely on training fees to cover this cost as well as the court hire. In addition, we regularly apply for grants whenever possible in order to keep the costs down and to enable us to buy more equipment. We gained the Bronze CAPS award in July 2014 and are working towards renewing this and then moving on to the silver award.

Aims

As we are a club, we want to be able to have the girls playing in as many local match opportunities as possible and teams are organised according to age and ability. Currently we have juniors playing in the Nottinghamshire netball league: http://www.ncna.co.uk/ and the Two Counties netball league and tournaments: http://www.twocountiesnetball.co.uk/. Once we feel your daughter is ready to play competitively she will be asked. If you have any concerns over this please feel free to speak to us.

Attendance

We expect players to attend training weekly so that we can work through a training programme to enable them to develop in the game and also enable them to have practise matches within the club.  We train during term time and during the holidays we will run netball related events when possible due to coaches’ availability. We are currently based at the indoors sports centre at Bilborough College

England Netball Membership

In order for your daughter to be able to attend training and play competitively she needs to become a member of England Netball after they have attended three training sessions.  The cost for this is as follow based on the child’s date of birth on 01/09/2023: U11 £5.50, U14 £10.90 and U18 £22.90 to cover the period 1 Sept - 31 August.

It is essential that all players after 3 taster sessions does become a member of England netball as this provides us with insurance and other players are not insured if you aren’t and additionally it offers a variety of benefits for you e.g., magazines, web access.

Membership is done directly with England netball and you need to arrange this by visiting the following page https://www.englandnetball.co.uk/membership/become-a-member/u18-membership-checklist/ and follow the instructions (Bramcote Club ID number is 16126). Please note that you have to set up an account for yourself (no charge) and then you add your child if they are under 18.

Training fees

To avoid us wasting valuable training time at the beginning of each session we request that all players set up a standing order for £16 per month (throughout the year) with effect from the 1^st of the following month.  The bank account details to set up the standing order to are as follows and please put your daughter’s name as the reference:

Account Name: Bramcote Netball Club

Account Number: 10137994

Sort code: 161418

For the first few sessions it is fine to pay cash at £4 per session until you child is committed to joining the club.

Match fees

The normal match fee is £5 per player and sometimes tournaments may be more depending on the entry fee we need to pay, but we will try to keep the cost down as much as possible.  For the 2023/24 season, match fees are to be paid on a monthly basis through Spond.

Additional Information/ consent form

Can you please complete the form below regarding the additional information we need to be aware of regarding your daughter's health and consent to the use of images in view of us having a web site http://bramcotenetballclub.yolasite.com/ and Facebook account that is regularly updated with pictures of events the girls are in.  

Communication

Can we please ask you to ensure that you have a ‘WhatsApp’ account as we have a WhatsApp group for the juniors and seniors, and this is how we communicate any information to you about training times and any other info we need to easily let you know about.

Additionally, can you download the app ‘SPOND’ (https://spond.com/) as this is used to invite players to attend in games as well as communication and accept training. Please enter code VOBRI to request to join the group and it will be accepted by an administrator and you will be allocated to the correct age group. It is essential that you do download the app for safeguarding purposes as well so that we can contact you easily at training if there are any issues or if sessions are cancelled or abandoned to the weather.

Please feel free to contact us at any time if you have any questions regarding the above and we hope that your daughter enjoys being part of the Bramcote Netball Club and continues to develop as a player and enjoy the game of netball.

Please complete the additional information/consent form and bring to your daughter's first session.