Celebrating the centenary

The entire Netball Family has been getting involved in our centenary celebrations, take a look at a snapshot of how the year of celebration events have started to unfold across the country

“ In a Berkshire Netball Youth Camp, we discussed the centenary with our 11-14-year-olds and talked about what it meant to us as a Netball Family. We also created some bunting to celebrate :-)

“ In Manchester, we had a bibs-in-the-air mash-up tournament with team names linked to the centenary theme.

“ At our Sussex Bee Netball session, we spoke about our netball history and how it has shaped women’s lives throughout the ages. We added tasks such as ‘how do you think the game was played when your nan was at school?’

“ In Portland we had promoted the previous week that it would be the 100-year anniversary at our next session and we would have coffee and cake. Some ladies showed us pictures from their early netball days.

“ In Towcester in Northants I shared information about #EN100 celebrations with the league and Netball Now session and asked ladies to be part of the birthday celebrations by sharing messages, and letting others know their own experiences of why they play netball.

“ In Ashby, we ran our usual session which fell on the 100-year anniversary and the ladies made a short video.

Teachers, looking for ways to get your school involved?

To celebrate the centenary, England Netball has launched a schools’ digital resource pack which aims to accelerate engagement and provide inspiration to young people and practitioners within an educational setting during the centenary year.

This exciting set of resources is designed to engage and inspire pupils during 2026 with different focuses at different times in the year’. The resources are flexible, cross-curricular, cater for a wide variety of interests and age groups, and can be used as standalone activities.

Different resources will be released throughout the year based on the past, present and future themes.

Past – looking at the history of the game of netball, how it evolved and foucusing on the pioneers of the game.

Present – connecting with the Netball Super League’ and looking forward to the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Future – Building the game for the future, ensuring netball is a place where children and young people can belong, flourish and soar.

Sign up to download the resources here .

“ In Stafford at our Walking Netball group, we celebrated EN’s birthday by all wearing red and white, and with bunting and flags while each participant received a rose.

“ At Tadworth we had a celebration at our Walking Netball session.

“ In Cornwall we used a classroom as our base for the day. The warm-up/icebreaker saw participants pairing up and actively collecting letters from other pairs before working with their partners to decipher the anagram, which read “100 years England Netball”.

England Netball wants to hear how you’re celebrating the centenary, tell us about your event here .