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.... it's a Family Thing A BIG "THANK YOU" TO OUR FABULOUS PARENTS!! We want to say a special "Thank You" to all our incredible sponsors, for helping Rhondda Netball make a difference. We've come so far so quickly, and we really appreciate you!! 30
THE END OF THE BEGINNING! by Lawrie Davies, Founder & Managing Director, Rhondda Netball The instant nature of today’s society can often make it extremely difficult for one to be truly reflective. We’re all eager to get whatever we want instantly, like right now! We might not realise it, but this often hinders our ability to be objectively reflective and we tend to judge progress in minutes, hours and days, rather than weeks, months and years. But in preparing to write this article I had the great opportunity to look back over Rhondda Netball’s incredible Year 1 and some of the amazing highlights from an unfinished Year 2, and I’m delighted to report that the progress has been quite amazing! But the really great news is, the best is still to come, because we’ve only reached the end of the beginning!! Looking back on my own involvement in netball over the years I’m really grateful for how Becky Davies and the female Marvels brought netball into the mix at Sporting Marvels, another charity I head up that's played a huge support role in getting Rhondda Netball established. I’d been of the belief for some years that a charitable operation focused around netball and female sports provision had big potential in Rhondda, especially so given the almost non-existent opportunities for girls and women when compared to those available to boys and men. But I hadn’t contemplated establishing and driving something like Rhondda Netball myself until the decision was made in Sporting Marvels to cut all of its netball activities. As the MD, such a decision was all set to make Sporting Marvels and me in particular, very unpopular with the girls and women that were involved. It wasn’t something we wanted to see happen so instead, we decided to have a crack at building what we believed was possible. As I said in my main editorial on page 9, if you want to go anywhere, you’ve got to start somewhere!! Days were spent with my Dad in what can only be described as a refresher crash-course of his entire history building successful community/ sports initiatives out of the professional rugby clubs he worked for. Hours were spent with former Superleague player and Welsh International, 31
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