UK Charity Number: 1210225
WAYS TO HELP
1. Volunteer with us
Come on tour
Volunteers who partake in an NDT tour have a unique opportunity to be part of a cross-cultural experience and contribute to the lives of children, who often have very little. Without exception, our volunteers tell us that it has been an experience of a lifetime and that they have built life-long friendships and bonds that go far beyond the sport.
Our volunteers work closely with children in a coaching capacity, although previous coaching or netball experience is not a pre-requisite to work with us. We welcome volunteers who can bring different skill sets to the group. We also work with our local volunteers to transfer knowledge between the group.
As one volunteer said “This tour has changed the way I think about coaching and my life in general. It has been a fantastic experience.”
Share your skills
We currently (summer 2025) need a Treasurer to support our Trustees and Director, someone with social media/website experience and a London-based volunteer to help us organise our store room. We regularly have donations of netball kit and equipment and we need to coordinate a few shipments to our programmes.
2. RAISE FUNDS
Get involved in supporting our projects
As with any charity we really need your support. There is so much more we could do with a little extra funding. We would love to have permanent courts marked in all the countries we work in, albeit with oil and basic provisions. We would love to offer new t-shirts, bibs and balls to each school and community group we work with. We would love to make our volunteers into permanent staff, so they can run our projects 365 days a year without struggling themselves. We would love to expand our sexual health programmes (education and sanitary pads) into more schools so more young people are engaged. Please click here to donate – thank you.
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Do you have a club or league charity of the year?
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Could your club/uni team put on a fundraiser for us? Could you coordinate it?
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Donate personally – see the easy “donate” buttons for one-off or monthly regular donations
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Promote us in your school/club/university/work
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Recommend us to your employer so they can support us too
3. DONATE KIT AND EQUIPMENT
Support us
CURRENTLY WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING KIT (summer 2025) AS THE STORE ROOM IS FULL.
Please ask again in September 2025
Could you help us by donating netball kit and equipment?
Until we develop local seamstresses to help us to make kit, we want to take out as much as possible so that each school and community has a basic level of kit and equipment.
They need balls, bibs, trainers and team kits in sets of 10 so they can feel an identity and pride for their team when they play in tournaments and matches.
Many of our children play in school uniform and bare feet. They don’t have changing rooms, PE kit or spare items like many of us do, so we want to help them feel proud of their netball.
We store all our donations here:
Big Yellow Self Storage Company
8 Advent Way
London
N18 3AF
Please contact us before posting donations as we have limited storage facilities and may not be able to receive everything you want to send right now.
If you have good quality sports bras or everyday bras which teenage girls will benefit from, we recommend you donate them to SmallsForAll who work in a lot of the same communities.
4. PARTNER US
Help us make a difference
As we grow and we support more communities, we have a growing list of opportunities...and, of course, they all cost money. If you would like to have a chat about working with us, whether a collaboration or a corporate opportunity, please connect with us.
We are happy to discuss any support you might wish to offer.
WHAT OUR VOLUNTEERS SAY
I could never have envisaged just what an impact they [an incredible bunch of women], and the trip, would have on me and my life. Right from the moment we landed in Ghana, it was the most full on, mad, crazy, scary, at times sad, but mostly, amazing experience. This was not just about the netball that we coached with the local school children and the training we delivered to the teachers and volunteers, in the hope of helping provide a legacy for them to continue delivering and developing netball, long after we left from this trip, it was also about seeing a whole different way of life, for people who had so little and yet were so grateful and cheerful for life. It was about seeing the joy on the children’s faces when they learned new skills.
Sally, Ghana 2018
Hear about the experiences some of our volunteer's have had on tour:
2015 Jan Smith, Kenya & Uganda Tour Report
2016 Olivia Hellas, Kenya Tour Report
2017 Katrina Burt, Kenya & Uganda Tour Report