Hi, my name is Sally, Sally Bark, I work at the Bridge as a Community Education Development Worker. Today I'm going to talk about the Bridge Netball Club which started about two years ago, with the help of Ronnie Titley, who is the East Brighton Sports Development Worker. We spent about six months practising and getting better, then last summer we joined the BMW Netball League. We did ok, won a few games, lost a few games and then we joined the Winter Netball League, which is like the proper league where you have to become affiliated to Netball England. The Scarman Trust granted us the funding to become affiliated, buy our kit and pay for the training, coach and the cost of the netball courts as it works out quite expensive.

The team is made up of women from Coldean, Bevendean and Moulsecoomb and also myself and one of the other teachers from Falmer school. We had our first season in the Winter League, which we won, we came top so we are in Division four, so now we have won a trophy. Ann Kennedy, our trainer, lives in the area and she has been playing netball for ages, around ten years and she won a trophy as well for training us. Anne won a special cup that you get for your contribution towards netball. We found applying to the Scarman Trust for funding really easy and it was quick too so we were really pleased about it. We have successfully re-applied and have now received another year's funding.

We meet every Thursday at Falmer school from six 'til seven thirty and anybody is welcome to come along, any age and ability. As we really would like to form more teams and put netball for Falmer, the Bridge, Moulsecoomb and East Brighton on the map. We play our matches at the University of Brighton and there are two games, you either get an "Early" or a "Late": the early starts at quarter to seven and the games last for an hour and then you get a late where the games start at eight o'clock. So if you are interested why not come along and see or even have a go for yourself.