1 Year Since Congress 2019

10 July, 2020

INF’s Congress is the meeting of the Membership of the INF and is held once every 2 years usually before the Netball World Youth Cup and Netball World Cup. The 2019 Congress was held on the 10^th and 11^th July 2019 at the ACC, Liverpool ahead of the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019. This was the largest Congress to date with 45 members in attendance.

Congress is an opportunity for the Membership to meet with the Board of Directors to review progress and determine the priorities for the next period. The business of the 2019 Congress included:

A report from the INF Board;
Consideration of applications of new Members;
Elections for INF President and Finance Director;
Approval of the annual accounts;
Consideration of any changes proposed to the company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association;
Announcement of INF Service Awards; and
Dealing with any other business as determined by the Board.

Elections for the Board of Directors also take place at Congress and last year, Liz Nicholl CBE, former CEO of UK Sport, was elected as INF President and took over from Hon Molly Rhone OJ, CD on the 21^st July 2019. Marva Bernard, OD was elected as Director for Americas, Lyn Carpenter was elected as Director for Europe, and Wainikiti Bogidrau was elected as Director for Oceania.

As part of Congress, INF invited the following speakers to deliver talks to its Members:

Julie Harrington, CEO of British Cycling – Tackling bullying and discrimination
Malibu Raditladi, President Botswana Netball Association – Safe Sport programme
Rowland Jack, Founder of I Trust Sport – Governance in sport
Kate Agnew, Netball NewZealand – Netball Smart Programme
Alanna Antcliff, Netball Australia Physio – The Knee programme
Shari Layton, Former International Netballer – Athletes perspective

Watch all the talks here.

INF also offered a full programme of workshops for Members to attend throughout the Netball World Cup. The 2019 programme included the following workshops: