2018-19 ANNUAL REVIEW - England Handball Association
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ANNUAL REVIEW 2018-19
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CONTENTS
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Coaching and Workforce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Competitions and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Marketing and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Board and Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Progress against Key Strategic Plan Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Financial summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
League and competition winners 2018/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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WELCOME
Introduction from Chair Tracy Watkinson and CEO David Meli
Welcome to the England Handball Annual Review for 2018-19. This review demonstrates the
impact we have made over the last 12 months.
It has been another busy year. Among the highlights were:
• Eight clubs supported to achieve Pro-Active Club accreditation
• £7000 invested in 14 Pro-Active Club projects
• E-Learning site went live
• Geographic gaps in course-delivery workforce filled
• Four training camps combining delivery of Diploma in Sporting Excellence and National
Youth programmes
• Goal-keepers Masterclass
• Successful proposal submitted for handball to become a BUCS recognised sport
• Updated membership system
• National Cup Finals streamed by BBC
• Kappa agreement adding to England Handball’s commercial partners
• England Handball was shortlisted in the top 3 for National Governing Body of the Year by the
Youth Sport Trust
The development of the sport, with the clubs as our core market, is a continuous process and,
although we’ve achieved plenty over the last 12 months, we are always looking at how we can
do things better.
This ethos will help to grow our exciting, high-scoring, action-packed team sport.
Of course, we couldn’t do this all by ourselves and recognise the important role volunteers
play. Their hard work, passion and enthusiasm is key to
delivering the sport at all levels.
As ever, our thanks go out to them.
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PARTNERSHIPS
School’s Competition Pro Active Clubs
The growth of the school’s competition is a England Handball developed the Pro-Active
key focus area for England Handball. Clubs accreditation programme based on
Sport England’s Club Mark programme.
Impact Clubs are supported to demonstrate quality
provision across their: playing programmes,
Teacher CPD duty of care/club welfare, knowledge of their
The Partnerships team has facilitated 18 members and community - and through their
Introduction to Teaching Handball and six club management structures. An associated
Advanced Teaching Handball Award courses funding scheme has also been introduced
to upskill teachers. to support clubs to engage with their local
Competition communities, and to help more people
discover handball, and regularly engage in
123 county finals events have been delivered
the sport at their local club.
across 36 Active Partnership areas, feeding
eight regional final events.
Impact
• South East: 21 county final events delivered
- 75% coverage Club accreditation
• East: 24 county final events delivered – Support provided to eight clubs to become
100% coverage fully accredited Pro-Active Clubs. The clubs
• East Midlands: 18 county final events are Bideford, Brighton, Carshalton Titans,
delivered – 90% coverage Reading, Newcastle, Medway Falcons,
• West Midlands: 22 county final events Northampton and Chelsea.
delivered – 92% coverage Support provided to three emerging clubs -
• London: 86 borough final events working to achieving full accreditation -
delivered – 67% coverage to meet initial criteria.
• North West:11 county finals delivered - More People Engaged with Handball
69% coverage £7000 invested across 14 PAC projects
• Yorkshire: 1 county final delivered – 8% in 2018-19, enabling more than 550 new
coverage people to discover handball for the first time.
More than a quarter of those people have
• South West: 22 county finals delivered – continued to engage with handball regularly
92% coverage within club sessions.
• Tyne & Wear: 4 county finals delivered –
100% coverage
A number of Handball club volunteers
supported the delivery of county and regional
final events by refereeing and table officiating.
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PARTNERSHIPS
University Engagement BUCS
The Partnerships team has developed The National Partnership Manager and
relationships with 10 universities to embed National Competitions & Events Manager
our Introduction to Teaching Handball course submitted a successful proposal for handball
within their teacher PGCE (or equivalent) to become a BUCS recognised sport.
programme.
Impact
Impact
Handball set to become BUCS
More handball in schools recognised
195 trainee teachers have been upskilled. Pending the successful delivery of a slightly
Those teachers have introduced or developed tweaked university competition in 2020/21,
handball activity within their placement handball will become a BUCS recognised
schools. The schools have then participated sport for the 2021/22 season. This is a huge
in their local handball competition feeding achievement for the sport and vital to the
the England Handball National Schools continued development and growth of the
Competition. In many cases the trainee game in the education sector.
teachers have supported the delivery of the
events through refereeing or table officiating.
Reading Handball club, one of the clubs to become PAC accredited.
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COACHING AND WORKFORCE
E-Learning site designed Activator course
and operational England Handball has created and released
This year has seen the e-learning site an activator course.
developed and go live. All the Coaching and
Workforce staff have been trained on how to Impact
use the system.
The course has been developed for people
who want to deliver Try Handball. People
Impact wanting to get to know the sport at a level
Additional training opportunities before committing to coaching, or clubs
wanting to do informal community work, will
Clubs, members and outside organisations
also benefit from completing the course.
are able to access training for their staff and
members in a format that has not previously Additional
existed. An example of this is the Table
Officials course, where bookings from inside England Handball ran four free referee
and outside the handball community have courses for clubs and piloted a new format.
received positive feedback. We have and, We will be looking at further development of
will continue to use feedback to continuously the format in 2019/20.
improve the e-learning offer.
Courses
Advanced Teaching Handball course
The Advanced Teaching Handball course has
been developed to replace the QTS course.
This year we have done a soft release of the
course to allow our course delivery workforce
to learn the course and tweak delivery where
appropriate.
Impact
The Advanced course has been developed to
fit the target audiences’ (teachers and trainee
teachers) needs and wants. The content is
now more curriculum focused and reduces
the time commitment on teachers to attend.
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COACHING AND WORKFORCE
Regional Academy
Courses Total courses
Introduction to Teaching Handball 47
Introduction to Teaching Handball open 1
HLA 10
Advanced Teaching Handball Qualification 5
Activator closed 5
Referee Course 7
Open Level 1 3
Closed Level 1 3
RPL Level 1 9
Workforce Data
Course delivery workforce were recruited to fill A data cleanse took place to get rid of old or
the gaps England Handball has geographically. duplicated data.
A contract has been created for course-delivery
workforce deployed in 2019. Impact
Impact Data sets are more accurate and streamlined.
Gaps in the course-delivery workforce have Course Booking
been filled and standards put in place. Blockers have been put on courses to restrict
people booking on course who do not have
Azolve Membership system the right credentials for that course.
Training
All staff underwent training on the Azolve Impact
system, which has been updated a number
Reduced administration time for England
of times.
Handball and the customer, and a smoother
customer journey.
Impact
Staff use the technology to its maximum
potential to aid our processes and
procedures, helping to stream line our
operation.
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COACHING AND WORKFORCE
Additional
• KS3 and KS4 documents created and live
on the website.
• 108 courses organised, delivered and
evaluated
• Work has continued with UK Coaching, and
the relationship strengthened.
E-learning bringing
improvements
The e-learning platform has been a great
addition for the table official’s course and for
future course and learning opportunities.
Since going live we have had over 70
bookings for the table official’s course. There
have also been very few issues with the
system and usability.
The system also allows for digital certification
of learners, while completion can be recorded
in two places.
The platform has the potential to increase our
reach and allow people to learn and develop
at their own speed and time.
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PERFORMANCE
Under-16 Regional Academy Under-18 Diploma in Sporting
The Academies Excellence (National Academy)
This season England Handball has operated The Diploma in Sporting Excellence offers
five Regional Academies with capacity for 16 handball athletes aged 16-18 who have the
Boys and 16 Girls in each. potential to play at the top level to:
We are operating at 75% capacity and • Train in an elite environment, while
recruitment in our under-represented regions • Continuing in full-time education
has been identified as a priority for 2019/20.
The diploma has capacity for 40 players.
England Handball has successfully retained
Impact 40 places on the DiSE programme for
All regions had representation at our inter- 2019/20 season.
regional development tournaments in The diploma is delivered in partnership
December and April. with Loughborough College. Loughborough
College provide specialist tutors in Nutrition
Coaching and Refereeing and Strength & Conditioning as well as quality
assurance for our other modules delivered by
This year England Handball trialled delivery of
England Handball tutors.
Level-1 Coaching and Refereeing programmes
for players in the Under-16 Regional This season England Handball successfully
Academy. Approximately 50 players signed combined delivery of the DiSE programme
up on each programme. and GB Youth National Teams programmes.
Level-1 referees were chaperoned and Four training camps were delivered centrally
supported at the Regional Academy at England Handball’s National Training
Tournaments in December and April They Centre at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.
also had a two-hour workshop and rules
tests. Opportunities for ‘deployment’ with Impact
our Partnership Managers in 2019-20 is being
All players enrolled on the programme had
explored.
the opportunity to train with Youth National
Level-1 coaches had the opportunity to Team coaches and within their specific-age
attend workshops with an affiliated England categories.
Handball tutor and to have their coaching
assessed, coaching their Regional Academy The combined delivery also benefitted
peers. Final assessments will take place in coaches. A CPD programme for performance
July 2019. / youth National Team coaches was
implemented. This covered areas such as;
mentoring, coaching the millennials & Goal
Impact
Keeping.
Building the handball workforce, and
providing opportunities for young players to
explore other roles in the sport.
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PERFORMANCE
Under-16 and Under-17 Futures
Programme
Player Opportunities
For the second season running England
Handball has assessed players in the pathway
and established opportunities to enhance
their development through additional training
and competition.
This year boys’ and girls’ squads attended
The Paris World Games and The Generation
Cup (Viborg, Denmark).
Case Study
Impact Goal Keeper Masterclass
The Goal Keeper Masterclass with Mattias
This aspirational programme is a stepping
Anderson was a huge success with over 40
stone for athletes aiming for the National
goal-keepers and 10 coaches attending. This
Academy & Great Britain Youth Age Group
included goal-keepers from the Performance
squads. It also provides a platform for our
Pathway and National Teams.
pathway coaches to coach in competitive
environments. Mattias delivered a presentation outlining his
thoughts and ideas of ‘who, what and how’ to
DiSE Alignment develop goal-keepers as well as a practical,
court-based session.
The programme has been aligned to the DiSE
& Youth National Team programme. There was excellent social media engagement
and feedback with 85% people saying it was
Impact a great experience and they would like to
attend more events like this.
More efficient use of resources and reduced
time commitments for coaches working
across multiple stages of the pathway.
% of players from England Handball
Pathway (DiSE/RA) in GB age-group
squads based on last selection.
GB girls under-17s 75%
GB women under-19s 75%
GB boys under-18s 95%
GB men under-20s 70%
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COMPETITIONS AND EVENTS
University Championships: Under-14 Competition
BUCS pathway The under-14 season closed with the National
England Handball submitted a successful Open, the first ever National under-14
proposal for handball to become a BUCS competition finals for clubs.
recognised sport. This follows three years of
development to find the best way to develop Impact
the university programme, a process that has
led to a number of different format changes. More opportunities for young players
18 teams competed in the National under-14
Impact Open. The competition enabled a younger
age group to experience tournament handball
BUCS recognition pathway established and enjoy more match time. The competition
A pathway has been established for the also helped support the growing number of
England Handball university championships youth clubs in the country.
to become BUCS recognised for the 2020/21
season. This will involve a new trial event
during the 2019/20 season.
55 teams competed in the University National
Finals in 2018/19.
Sustained Competition Structure
National Cup Finals
The National Cup Finals were held at Derby
Arena for a second year. It was also the
second year of the weekend format, with
male and female finals at under-16s, under-
19s, National Shield and National Cup.
Impact
More people watching finals
The move to Derby Arena, and the weekend
format, has proved a success with over 1,300
tickets sold over the two days of competition.
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COMPETITIONS AND EVENTS
Membership System
The Azolve membership system was
updated to make it easier to track members
qualifications.
Impact
Club Development and Safeguarding
The streamlined system supports the on-
going development of clubs and members
by allowing England Handball to track club
coaches, welfare officers and identify training
opportunities in each area/region.
This updated system also meets the NSPCC:
CPSU criteria for standards and tracking.
Case Study
Creating a sustainable competition
pathway
The Under-16 and Under-19 competition
followed the same format for the first time
in the 2018/19 season. This is part of the
development of a competition structure,
which flows through the England Handball
pathway.
Improvement is a continuous process. For
example, 2019/20 will see further focus on
regionalised rounds, before national play-
offs. This is designed to reduce the amount of
travel for teams.
The ultimate aim of any developments is to
improve the quality of the competitions and
support the junior sections of clubs.
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MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Media Coverage Website Developments
England Handball has focussed on securing Key website developments in 2018/19
media coverage in regional and local media. included:
The strategy ensures stories about a team’s • Making the club secure fixture/results area
success, or a human-interest story, are more more mobile friendly
relevant to the area and, therefore, more
• Free resources download area
likely to be noticed by people consuming the
media. Other areas of development, such as
improving the ‘flow’ of the website have been
England Handball has also had success in
identified and will be future projects.
securing national media coverage when the
BBC live-streamed the National Cup finals.
Impact
Impact Improving the use-ability of the website
for clubs. Traffic driven to website as users
19 articles/features in local and regional
take advantage of resource area. More than
media and BBC live streaming of National Cup
1,800 downloads of resources since this area
finals, increasing the profile of handball.
launched in October 2018.
Communications Diary
The Marketing team put together a
Communications Diary for the year. The
diary highlights key national/international,
and sporting events which handball can get
involved in to increase the sport’s profile,
mainly via social media. Examples included
#BigThankYou, Coaching and Workforce
Week, International Women’s Day and the
Oscars.
Impact
Handball associated with key events, and
heavily-searched #tags on social media,
helping to raise the profile of the sport.
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MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Twitter followers growth: 357 Case Study
Facebook likes growth: 322 International Women’s Day Social
Instagram followers growth: 220 Media Campaign
(since September 2018). England Handball contacted female coaches,
and participants of Poole Phoenix’s Handball
Commercial Mamas project, asking if they would take
part in the organisation’s social media for
England Handball announced a three-year
International Women’s Day.
deal in August with Kappa as its official
apparel partner. The participants sent images in
the recommended pose for the
Under the agreement Kappa – recognised
#BalanceForBetter theme. These images
as an established brand in handball -
were incorporated into a designed template,
supplies the England Handball Regional
and then scheduled to go out on social media
Academies, Diploma in Sporting Excellence
at regular intervals on International Women’s
students, tutors and staff. In addition,
Day.
England Handball clubs will benefit from the
partnership as they will be able to purchase The social media posts got good engagement
Kappa handball kit at a 40% discount. with 8548 impressions and an average
engagement rate of 7.48%
The deal with Kappa added to England
Handball’s commercial partners of Bishop
Sport and Leisure, Pulseroll, Quickplay, and
Trimona.
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BOARD AND GOVERNANCE
The Board Priority Items
The Board of Directors consists of ten Non- The board and management team met in
Executive Directors including the Chair. September 2018 to discuss the current
The Chair and four of the Non-Executive England Handball strategy. The issues,
Directors are membership-elected and five ideas and thoughts of clubs put forward in
are appointed Independent Members. All the 2018 satisfaction survey and at the club
Directors sit on the Board for a four-year conference were at the forefront of minds as
term and are able to seek re-election or each section of the strategy was scrutinised.
appointment for a further term. A list of priority items was drawn up during
the meeting. After a period of reflection,
The Board meet six times a year and all
analysis and careful consideration four
subsidiary committees and advisory groups
priority items for the board and staff were
report into the Board. The current Board
agreed at the November Board meeting.
members are:
Governance, Safeguarding, Stakeholder
Tracy Watkinson Engagement and Data Metrics are priority
Non-executive Chair, Membership-Elected items which form a virtuous circle that
Sue Whitehead supports, strengthens and guides all that we
Non-executive Director, Membership-Elected do. Progress and success in one area helps us
achieve more in another. With shared values,
Clare Henderson clear objectives and by working together
Non-executive Independent Director we will improve and strengthen all that we
Marc Fayemi deliver.
Non-executive Director, Membership-Elected
Chad Ehlertsen
Non-executive Director, Membership-Elected
Amanda Bennett
Non-executive Independent Director
Diaraye Diallo
Non-executive Independent Director
Heather Williams
Non-executive Independent Director
Paul Shapiro
Non-executive Independent Director
Chris Smith
Non-executive Director, Membership-Elected
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BOARD AND GOVERNANCE
Governance Safeguarding
Priority - Improve governance within the Priority - To improve levels of safeguarding
association. across the sport through the introduction of
Mobilise priority items to drive improvement an agreed standard.
for members, enhance strategy delivery and
support growth towards Handball being a Actions
safer, more sort after, thriving, successful • Safeguarding has been made a standing
sport. agenda item at board meetings.
• Extensive work has been undertaken by
Actions
board members and the CEO to produce a
• Board and staff away-day organised after new Safeguarding Standard.
roundtable discussions at 2018 Club
Conference. • The board has received training from the
Child Protection in Sport Unit.
• Priority Items created after careful
consideration of satisfaction survey • The standard is being used to assess what
responses, roundtable discussions and away- processes need to change and to articulate
day discussions with Executive Staff. how risk is managed.
• Commitment to openness, transparency and • A project to define how the new
accountability made and published. Safeguarding Standard will be implemented
• Creation of email to membership following has been commissioned.
each board meeting. • Follow-up actions for the new standard will
• Bespoke email address for receipt of be communicated to clubs.
feedback from membership created.
• Invitation to feedback offered to membership
after publication of board meeting highlights.
• Governance section of the website
developed.
• Email to membership published on
web-site to develop reach and improve
communication with membership.
• Priority given to strategic discussions at board
meetings.
• Quality of minutes improved, period from
creation to publication shortened.
• Governance structure reviewed through
additional meetings for directors.
• Risk management prioritised in all meetings
and discussions.
• New Terms of Reference for the Audit and
Governance Committee created.
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BOARD AND GOVERNANCE
Stakeholder Engagement Meeting Structure
Board meetings focus on 2-3 key strategic
Priority - Create a full engagement plan for
discussion topics and there is now a standing
the season covering the specifics of the offer
agenda item on Safeguarding, given its
to clubs and all touch-points.
importance. This ensures that best use is
made of the time available for meetings
Actions
and to capitalise on the skills, knowledge
• Quarterly meetings with clubs mandated and experience around the table. All Board
for the entire year. meetings were completed and quorate.
• Prescription to record key issues, actions
and agreements during interactions. Follow
Risk Management
up discussions to take place, records to be The Board maintains regular and effective
kept. oversight of the risks facing England
Handball by reviewing and addressing the
• Satisfaction surveys to be offered to clubs
principal risks at every meeting. Whilst risk
following every meeting.
management is delegated to the executive
• Clubs to be surveyed annually to team, the Board adopts a robust approach to
understand their needs. risk, scrutinising and updating the risks and
• Stakeholder Engagement reviewed by issues facing the organisation. The England
Directors and CEO in additional meeting Handball Risk Strategy will be reviewed in
and follow up discussions. September 2019 to ensure it remains relevant
and sufficiently robust.
Data Metrics
Priority - Invest in Data Metrics to facilitate
tracking, assessment, measurement of
progress and quantification of impact.
Utilise in reports, assist with compliance,
develop evidence based decision making and
promote to maximise growth and fulfilment
of potential. Employ to highlight the diversity
and inclusiveness of Handball.
Actions
• Data Metrics incorporated into CEO report.
• Competitions data used to highlight and
evidence the generosity, hard work and
success of England Handball volunteers
running clubs.
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BOARD AND GOVERNANCE
Committees and Advisory Groups Compliance with the Code for Sports
Governance
Governance
As well as achieving at least 30% men and
England Handball has ensured that the women on the Board, England Handball
Governance, Strategy and Impact section has achieved compliance across all 58
of our website is regularly updated with requirements of the Code for Sports
the minutes from each board meeting. This Governance. This not only ensures England
maintains the organisation’s compliance with Handball continues to meet Sport England
the Code for Sports Governance. funding requirements, Code compliance
Board Directors are looking to provide an enables England Handball to operate to the
additional level of governance support highest standards of governance.
by establishing committees and advisory
groups. This will commence with the forming Directors’ attendance at Board
of an Audit and Governance Committee. meetings
This committee will help with policy review, During the year the attendance level of
reviewing the annual audited accounts directors at each board meeting was as
and maintaining an oversight of England follows:
Handball’s governance arrangements. May 2018 – 9 of 10 directors in attendance
Diversity July 2018 – 10 of 10 directors in attendance
The Board maintained its commitment to September 2018 – 9 of 10 directors in
ensuring the diversity of the organisation. attendance
All roles or positions advertised during the November 2018 – 9 of 10 directors in
year were open to all applicants regardless attendance
of race, background or sexual orientation.
January 2019 – 8 of 10 directors in
The positive ratio of female to male directors
attendance
on the Board has also been maintained with
60% female representation, while BAME March 2019 – 9 of 10 directors in attendance.
representation is 20%.
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KEY STRATEGIC PLAN TARGETS
England Handball is two years into 2017-21 Higher Education
funding cycle Strategic plan.
Below shows the progress the organisation Target for 2021
has made against key metrics across our 100 teams from 45 universities taking part in
priority areas of work. a BUCS recognised competition.
Education sector
Primary schools
Achievement
56 teams representing 33 universities took
Target for 2021 part in this year’s competition. We also
Deliver festivals in 10 counties across received confirmation of a pathway to BUCS
England. recognition for 2020 that should see more
teams and universities competing in future
Achievement events.
In the last year England Handball has Target for 2021
delivered 42 festivals in 11 counties for a total
of 287 schools. Five universities with handball qualifications
embedded in their teacher training/sport-
related courses.
Secondary Schools
Achievement
Target for 2021
Introduction to Teaching Handball
1550 teams and 20,000 students taking part qualification embedded in relevant courses at
in our National Schools competition. 10 universities across the country.
Achievement Additional
Figures for last year show that 1730 teams England Handball recognises there is still
from 750 schools and 20,760 students work to be done in terms of making its
competed in England Handball’s Under-13 courses as accessible as possible in terms of
and Under-15 competitions – around 22% of cost and learning time - to enable as many
the total schools in England. people as possible to become qualified.
England Handball is also beginning work
to develop a coaching philosophy for the
organisation, and to continue the work
to build data and information to better
understand the needs of our customers.
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KEY STRATEGIC PLAN TARGETS
Community Handball Clubs and Competitions
England Handball has developed more Club Development
materials and resources related to our Try
Handball product. However, this area of our Target for 2021
work is currently less of a focus for us given
the resources and capacity at our disposal. Clubs working towards an agreed, England
Information can be downloaded from our Handball developed, quality standard.
website and the Try Handball equipment
pack can be brought online to enable people
Achievement
to deliver informal activities. Pro-Active Club programme created to
support clubs to become more sustainable.
10 clubs that have achieved the standard with
a further three well on the way – making up
around 20% of our total clubs.
Target for 2021
Greater visibility of the sport within the
media.
Achievement
National Cup Finals live streamed on the BBC
Sport website and an increase in the number
of articles and press releases being picked
up in local and national media outlets. In
addition, we now have over 9200 followers
on Twitter and a regular programme of social
media interaction.
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KEY STRATEGIC PLAN TARGETS
Training & Deployment Workforce Development
Variety of Course Formats
Target for 2021
Target for 2021 Training a workforce to meet the needs of
To enable club coaches to access a range of participants at a variety of levels and in
appropriate training courses. selected geographical areas.
Achievement Achievement
In the past year a new e-learning platform Over 90 courses delivered in the last 12
has been introduced. This allows England months across England Handball’s portfolio
Handball to create more accessible and cost- of qualifications, training almost 1300
efficient courses for all individuals regardless coaches, leaders and officials. These are
of their level. England Handball is also looking spread throughout the country as England
at the structure and content of its course Handball looks to meet the demands
portfolio to make sure that it continues to from customers - seeking to provide more
meet the needs of the workforce. handball opportunities.
Tutor Workforce Additional
We are still investigating ways to measure
Target for 2021 handball delivery within these areas of the
education sector so that we can build up a
More of England Handball’s higher qualified clearer picture of the level of participation.
coaches becoming part of the tutor
workforce.
Achievement
Throughout the last 12 months England
Handball has continually sought ways to
recruit more tutors from within our club
network. There has been success filling
some geographical gaps. However, England
Handball is keen to see more of experienced
coaches join the delivery workforce.
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KEY STRATEGIC PLAN TARGETS
Competitions Talent
Competitions: Junior
Target for 2021
Target for 2021 Increasing access to performance coaches
and to have at least 35% of National
Competition opportunities at Under-9,
Programme athletes making a GB squad
Under-11, Under-14, Under-16 and Under-19
longlist or their Premier League debut.
levels.
Achievement Achievement
Changes to the delivery of the regional
Well-established events for Under-14,
academy programme have enabled England
Under-16 and Under-19 age groups. In
Handball to more than double the number of
addition the growth in numbers taking part
contact hours players have with coaches from
in primary school festivals is building a
30 to 64 over the course of a season. Figures
participation base that England Handball
from recent GB squad lists show that English
will look to transfer in to more formal
players, on average, make up more than 75%
competitions for the younger age groups over
of those selected across the junior and senior
the next two years.
squads.
Competitions: Senior
Additional
Target for 2021 Discussions are continuing to establish
county performance centres and a University
Introduction of a new Championship level for High-Performance centre to assess whether
women introduced and two-tier leagues at these will make effective contributions to the
regional level, and maintenance of existing talent pathway.
national league format for men and women.
Achievement
Rebranding of the Premier Handball League
has helped to consolidate that level of
competition, but challenges still remain
with finding a cost effective but competitive
format to suit the requirements of teams.
Options for new competition structures
that will cover all senior competition levels
are being discussed with clubs for possible
introduction in 2020.
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KEY STRATEGIC PLAN TARGETS
Commercial Customer Knowledge
Funding
Target for 2021
Target for 2021 England Handball to have greater
50% dependent on public funding for our understanding of its club and school
income. competitions as well as a clearer picture of
customers’ preferences.
Achievement
Achievement
England Handball figures for the financial
year show that Sport England funding makes England Handball carries out annual sat-
up less than 40% of its annual turnover as isfaction surveys with clubs to gauge their
England Handball managed to increase its feedback on our activities. This helps us to
own sources of revenue and access other look at how programmes in the future might
funding streams. need to be developed and to review existing
delivery. England Handball also receives data
Brand on its national schools competition at the end
of each academic year, enabling it to analyse
Target for 2021 geographical trends and areas that may need
further support.
More consistent messaging across all of
platforms.
Achievement
Over the last twelve months, England
Handball has developed new imagery and
logos for its competitions and also put in
place standard messaging formats. There
is still more work to be done in this area
but there is greater awareness of England
Handball and the sport in general on a variety
of media channels.
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Summary As set out by Sport England, we have
continued to try and look at other sources
We are now half way through the current
of income which has included other
funding cycle and our new staff structure
grant agencies such as the European and
and delivery model is fully bedded in. There
International Handball Federations. This is
have been no long term staff vacancies
a particularly challenging area for smaller
throughout the year, which means we have
governing bodies and whilst we have been
been operating at full capacity.
successful in the areas highlighted above,
England Handball produces a budget every the accessing of commercial funding still
year, which is approved by the Board. The proves difficult. We have also taken the
final results show an increase in income difficult decision to close our online shop
against the budgeted amount, which has due to the high running costs of this activity.
been exceeded by accounting expenditure. This has been replaced by royalty payment
These included the writing off of a couple agreements negotiated with suppliers.
of major items of rolled over funding from Combined membership and tournament
previous years. Overall this resulted in fees have increased once again, reflective
a deficit for the year, which has slightly of a stabilising of player registrations but an
impacted on our overall financial position increase in the number of teams competing
in terms of our reserves but not in terms of in our junior competitions, even though the
meeting our obligations. cost of membership remained unchanged
Our external auditors have reviewed the for the sixth year in a row. Although DiSE
accounts and have given us a clean audit funding has increased our coaching course
report. income was down on the previous year. We
are looking at the structure of a portfolio and
Income & Expenditure Account a mixed delivery model to hopefully provide
Our income this year increased compared opportunities for growth in the future.
to the previous year due to us receiving a A full staff structure and delivery of activities
growth in the funding received for our DiSE meant an increase in staff costs.
programme and higher than anticipated The net result was a deficit of £23,562
receipts for junior tournament entry fees. (2017/18: Deficit £789) for the year, which
Total income was £822,752 in 2018/19 from does mean that there will be no payment of
£760,589 in 2017/18. corporation tax of for the year.
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Balance Sheet Where did the money come from?
England Handball has maintained a cautious This Year Last Year
policy of matching income to expenditure, £ £
which in practice means that income is From what we do
not counted until the relevant expenditure Player Registrations 71,229 79,768
happens. That prevents grant income Player International
inflating any surplus ahead of the committed Transfers 456 904
expenditure. We have continued the practice Other Sales 57,110 7,127
by either deferring income or accruing for
Coach Education
future expenditure and this is a major item in
Courses 42,028 60,140
the balance sheet, particularly in Creditors:
Amounts falling due within one year. Performance
Income 18,147 16,570
The deficit incurred this year meant Online shop 6,893 43,902
our reserves dropped to £112,098 DiSE Funding 221,091 115,467
(2017/18:£138,446). This does mean that
they fall slightly below the target of having Our Trading
reserves equal to 15% of total income – Income 416,954 323,878
coming in at just under 14%. From elsewhere
The finance team have continued to work Grants Received 392,048 430,211
hard during the year with regards to the Grant from
management of debtors and creditors and European Handball
the control of cash. The Association remains Federation 13,750 6,500
in a positive cash position with income and Our Supported
expenditure payments in line with good Income 405,798 436,711
practice for an organisation of our size. OUR TOTAL
Balance sheet (KEY ITEMS ONLY) INCOME 822,752 760,589
This Year Last Year
Assets
Fixed Assets 5,275 4,054
Debtors 83,606 106,897
Cash 197,406 181,631
Liabilities
Creditors 173,650 153,630
Other Liabilities 539 596
NET ASSETS 109,598 138,446
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Where did the money go?
This Year Last Year
£ £
For what we do
Purchases 12,900 2,882
Online Shop 11,740 27,278
Facility Hire 8,912 152
ASSE Costs 11,987 23,770
Coach Education 37,762 49,473
Competition
Expenses 133,219 82,829
Our Trading
Costs 216,520 186,384
Supporting
what we do
Staff Costs 475,474 433,016
Travel Costs 53,152 41,820
Office Running Costs 67,348 70,365
Professional Fees 20,791 19,387
Other running costs 11,311 8,199
Depreciation 1,718 1,499
Our Supporting
Costs 629,794 574,286
Taxation 0 708
OUR TOTAL
COSTS 846,314 761,378
THAT LEFT A DEFICIT OF £23,562
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LEAGUE AND COMPETITION
WINNERS 2018/19
Adult Leagues
• Women’s Premier Handball League: Olympia
• Men’s Premier Handball League: London GD
• National League South: Carshalton Titans
• National League North: Liverpool
• Women’s South East Regional League Tier 1: London GD II
• Women’s South East Regional League Tier 2: Brighton
• Men’s South East Regional League Tier 1: Oxford University
• Men’s South East Regional League A: Chelsea II
• Women’s North Regional League: Liverpool
• Men’s North Regional League: Newcastle Vikings
• Women’s Midlands Regional League: Northampton
• Women’s South West Regional League: Bristol
• Men’s South West Regional League: University of Bath
Adult Cup Competitions
• Women’s National Cup: West London Eagles
• Men’s National Cup: Warrington Wolves
• Women’s National Shield: Northampton
• Men’s National Shield: Essex Hurricanes
Junior Leagues
• Girl’s Under-19 Competition: Stroud
• Boy’s Under-19 Competition: Warrington Wolves
• Girl’s Under-16 Competition: Stroud
• Boy’s Under-16 Competition: West London Eagles
• Girl’s Under-14 Competition: Essex
• Boy’s Under-14 Competition: Trafford
University Championships
• Women’s Cup: University of Warwick
• Women’s Plate: University of Chichester
• Men’s Cup: University of Bath
• Men’s Plate: University of Birmingham
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