1. West Yorkshire County AGM 13 June 2017

2. Agenda County AGM Welcome & Apologies for absence
Minutes of AGM (13 June 2016)
Matters arising
Communication via specify capacity in which receiving
England netball Update
Officers reports
Netball Development Officer (NDO) Report
Performance
Schools
Umpiring
Coaching
Junior League
Marketing Profile
To receive county accounts to 31 August 2016
Election of officers
AOB

3. England Netball Update
happening
England Netball Update
Key changes for 17/18 season
Funding cut and impact
Increase in fees
Summary of benefits – copy on your chair / available at front and also on website
Website – AGM page under ‘Team’ tab has the following information
Summary of benefits sheet
Presentation of benefits by ‘category’ of membership 3

4. EN Update
Video 4

5. NDO 16/17 supported areas Coaching Bursary for UKCC Level2
England Netball Technical Workshops
CAPS Accreditation
Twinkles (Silver)
Wakefield Phoenix (Gold)
Back to Netball
Regional Tournament EIS
3 new sessions (Huddersfield, Todmorden & Wakefield 5

6. England Netball – Price Increase
EGM held 25th March ’17
overwhelming support to increase membership by £10 (£36)
What will this mean for West Yorkshire?
Increase will cover shortfall in funding from Sport England
Additional money ring fenced for NGB only
Only affects “over 18” membership
Price will be frozen and reviewed 2021 6

7. Cost of membership West Yorkshire County England Netball
Yorkshire Region
West Yorkshire County 7

8. Category of membership
Team /Club
Young Professional Women
Mother & U14 Daughter
New Mother
Umpire
Coach 8

9. Performance Yorkshire Jets did not win Franchise for VSL BUT…
In the England Netball (EN) 4 year plan from 2017 – 2021 Yorkshire Netball will be running the performance pathway on behalf of EN
PLUS
Our excellent county and satellite academies are in place for West Yorkshire 9

10. Success gallery England U21 (events / tours)
- Imogen Allison (VSL Bath)
Emily Hollingworth (VSL Northumbria)
Brie Grierson (VSL Northumbria)
England U19 (events / tours)
Rose Harris
Reserve Hannah Gorman
England U17 Netball Europe
Georgia Pexton
Plus Alex Kirk England U17 coach
National Academy March 17
- Natalia Karkozska (U17)
- Georgia Pexton ( U19)
National Academy Potential March 17
- Gwyn Wallis 10

11. Performance – moving forward
Summer camps – increase to 6 days
Academies will be 4 in total (as per last year) but structured :
Development (20 weeks)
3 Satellite (20 weeks)
County (30 weeks)
U19 (30 weeks)
Trials for 17/18 season:
All ages U17 9/10 September
U September 11

12. Schools National Schools U14s GSAL and Gateways
U16s GSAL and Bradford Grammar
U19s Queen Ethleburga’s Collegiate
Congratulations to all who represented Yorkshire at the National Schools final in Welwyn Garden City 12

13. Umpiring – current numbers
WEST
YORKSHIRE
Start of year
Qualified during year
Total as at June 2017
A Umpires
B umpires 1
26* 2 3 25
C umpires 56 9 65
Actively working towards C award
6/7
COURSES 2016/17
1 ‘B’ award course 16 delegates
2 ‘C’ award courses 25 delegates
BUT conversion is still low
As listed active in WYCNA League Handbook (*Counted only those umpires based in West Yorkshire). + 5 B Award umpires from other regions who frequently umpire in WY. Losing 2 more B umpires this year who are retiring from umpiring.
2 new WY A Award umpire new A Award umpires from NY who frequently umpires in WY.
Approx 21 people have passed their ‘C’ written test but only about 6/7 actively working towards the full qualification. The challenge here continues to be opportunities for learner umpires to practice on good standard netball games, and them being allocated a mentor to observe them and give feedback/guidance.
Mentors are all volunteers so we are relying on people’s good will.
Conversion rate is still low despite ensuring that everyone who attends a C award course has to be affiliated to EN.
Eg a course ran in June 2015 with 16 WY delegates, this course ‘runs out’ on 28 June. Of the 17 people who attended only 3 people have qualified as ‘C’ award umpires.
Suggestions on how to improve this? 13

14. Umpiring - challenges
Assessors
The lack of Assessors continues to be a challenge.
We need more A/B award umpires to volunteer to become Assessors – places on the EN Assessors Course are fully funded by WYCNA.
Currently 4 EN qualified Umpire Assessors – 1 part qualified.
Mentors
WYCNA have several mentors to try and support learner umpires. However, this in itself is a challenge as the Mentors are all volunteers and we do not have enough people to offer the amount of support needed.
Currently there are only 4 qualified assessors with one assessors who will be ‘signed off’ competent shortly. The pre assessment test Minimum of 30 minutes) as part of both the B and C Award tests, continues to put tremendous pressure on these assessors. We need more A/B award umpires to become Assessors. When a course was advertised at the end of last year only one person from WY volunteered to attend the course, this is the person who is part qualified.
We do have several mentors, however, not all are actively mentoring people, some people are doing more than others. So again this continues to be a challenge as there are not enough people available to support learner umpires.
A solution to this might be to organise an event for learner umpires to come along and umpire some friendly games whilst being observed by mentors. Eg bring the learner umpires and mentors together in one place. 14

15. Umpiring - challenges Improving Umpire Standards
Standard of umpiring in WYCNA league is causing concern in some areas. Since the introduction of new rules in 2016 there appears to be a variation of how the rules are interpreted and applied in games.
To try and address this issue, a survey of all WY umpires was recently conducted to see whether there was an ‘appetite’ for an Umpiring Conference/Workshop where umpires could come along and focus on any issues/rules/game management etc.
However, of the 92 umpires listed in 2016/17 WY handbook we only had 16 replies.
We need to build robust succession plans of good standard umpires for the future if we are to sustain a credible WY Netball League.
Not sure whether you want to put this slide in – entirely up to you guys. But I have had a lot of feedback recently from players/other umpires who are unhappy about the standard of umpiring in WY league eg not applying the new rules correctly, particularly the stoppages rule for injury. Umpires walking up and down the court and making no effort to follow the pace of the game correctly, this does definiately NOT just apply to older umpires!!! I suppose what I am trying to say overall is that we do need more umpires who are keen to umpire correctly. This means we need to improve the conversion rate of those attending courses. The example I gave in the previous slide just says it all to me. People either come on courses so that they can umpire in social leagues, or once they have been on the course the realise that umpiring is not as easy as they first thought. There is a general lack of support for some of the learner umpires, but I do feel that those who make an effort to get in touch for support do get help. Not sure how all this should be worded, as it sounds very negative!! 15

16. Coaching Coaching bursaries awarded to 4 people Year to June 17
4 year Total achieved
4 year EN
Target
Variance to target
Level 1 5 28 36
(8)
Level 2 10 24 4
Level 3 1 2
(1)
Total 16 57 62
(5) 16

17. Congratulations to all
Junior League
Increase to 71 teams in 4 age groups (14 clubs involved)
U16s teams
U14s - 25 teams
U12s - 13 teams
High teams
Congratulations to all
Winners
Results on website
Huge thanks to
ALL who make the
League successful. 17

18. Junior League
Congratulations to: Regional League qualifiers U16: Leeds Athletic 1, Huddersfield Giants 1, Wakefield Wildcats 1 U14 : Huddersfield Giants1 , Leeds Athletic 1 and Wakefield Wildcats 1 National Club qualifiers U16: Leeds Athletic U14: Leeds Athletic & Huddersfield Giants Regional Festival U12: Leeds Athletic, YMCA, Huddersfield Giants and Yorkshire Terriers 18

19. Player Workshops January 17 Bradford April ’17 Huddersfield
Consecutive sessions
Defence
Shooting and Mid Court
April ’17 Huddersfield
Different weeks
Issues
Communication late
Poor attendance
But great feedback so
April sessions fully booked
International Coaches
Plan for 17/18
More of the same
Next sessions pre-season – September
Bradford College 19

20. Initiatives planned.. Digital and Communications plan Update / renew
Will cover website / FB and Twitter
Coaching
Bursary to continue
Player workshops
Bradford College pre season September 20

21. Accounts to 31 August 2016
Receipts and Payments 12 months to
Receipts: £39,742.50
Payments £49,330.88
Deficit (£9,588.38)
Balance Sheet as at
Opening Balance 59, Bank Balance 65,711.89
Deduct deficit (9,588.38) Less Unpres’d Chqs 3,922.39
Less Liabilities 12,000.00
Accumulated Funds 49, Available funds 49,789.50 21

22. County Management Group
Election of officers
County Management Group
Nominee
Proposed
Seconded
Chairperson
Pat Dembickjy
Vice Chairperson
Pam Hirlam
Secretary
Laura St Clair
Treasurer & Affiliations
Sharon Grimshaw
Schools and Education
Amy Knowles
Education and training –Umpiring
Education and training - coaching
Suphena Clarke
Performance & talent
Steph Booth & Lauren Libud
WY County Board
Marketing and Profile
Gill Newsome
County League – Senior
Julie Thackray
County League – Junior
Netball Development Officer (NDO)
Helena Rosso
Participation, competition and development covered by NDO
Additional members appointed by board e.g. Regional Rep 22

23. What do we need from you? Your feedback is important
Celebrating success
Recognition of volunteers at Goalden Globes
We need:
Active participation required
Umpires
Coaches
Mentors
Volunteers to attend small focus groups
Participation can be for specific projects e.g. website development / social media 23

24. Special thanks to..
Lynda Fluskey
Performance
Alison Morby
Juniors 24

25. Dates for your diary
Regional Coaching Conference Saturday 13 January 2018
National Schools – regional round Saturday 28 January 2018
(reserve date 13 February 2018)
AGM Tuesday 12 June 2018 25

26. West Yorkshire County AGM 13 June 2017