Superstars come in all sizes… a netball player, umpire and coach at just 16!

Paige Dillon, recently helped the Trust raising funds and awareness by selling wristies at the Campion secondary school, her netball club Northants JM and at the Loughborough Festival day at Loughborough University.

Paige passed her C umpiring grade at age 15, and recently passed her level 1 coaching. She has volunteered for over 270 hours at netball events local, regional and national level; this includes her being a ball girl at the England V. Jamaica test matches at Birmingham and Sheffield and accompanied the mascot at the recent England V. Australia tests at Bath and Wembley, London.
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Paige plans to join us on an NDT tour in a couple of years!

We are very proud to join hands with Top Corner who run London’s biggest league with almost 700 teams playing weekly. They have dozens of netball, football and basketball leagues across London, Top Corner provides a league for everyone!
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For more on Top Corner and to sign up your team – do visit the Top Corner website

Why not go do HIV work, or give them clean water or food?

​I’ve been asked this about the Trust, and in fact challenge myself on it from time to time.
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Sometimes I know there is an amazing reason why I travel the world teaching netball, but I just can’t find the right words to explain it to someone who hasn’t been and done what I have, and hasn’t seen the smiles on the kids’ faces.
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It’s great to share the amazing news that today The Netball Development Trust received confirmation of its registration as a UK charity trust!
Thank you everyone for your amazing support, our work has just started!
Happy Flowers!!!

This year’s annual Top Corner Netball Champions Cup was the biggest and best to date. With 12 ladies teams and 12 mixed teams competing for their respective Cups, played in front of a full house who took over the netball courts at Waterloo’s GMH Park.
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The winning team – Freshfields, kindly donated their prize of 10 customized Gilbert t-shirts to us here at the trust, we are so pleased with this contribution to our programme, Top Corner and Gilbert and of course Team Freshfields… Thank you very much!

Our friends from Down Under, Ben Carbonaro and Luke Herbert run this lovely internet radio show on Netball called Three Feet Radio… click here to listen to the interview with Monica ‘Thunder’ Thandi!