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Trialling Members - Season 2024

Does your Association or Club run Netball Activities to try and get people who are not already registered with your Association / Club or Netball Queensland members to join (e.g. Gala Days, Come and Try events, or similar) or wants to try before becoming registering with your Association or Club and incurring a charge for Netball Queensland Membership?

Do you want these people to be able to participate in your organisation’s Netball Activities and be able to access the personal injury insurance coverage available to registered players, should an incident occur during the Netball Activities that you are staging?

If so, Netball Queensland has a simple webform (that should not take longer than five minutes to complete) for individuals seeking to register themselves (anyone under the age of 18 needs to have a parent complete some sections and sign) as a participant or their child as the participants in the Netball Activities.

Participants (or parents, for those under 18) seeking to become a Trialling Member of Netball Queensland need to agree to Netball Queensland’s policies, as well as consent to the details provided in the trialling membership application being provided to the Event Organiser (and Association, if the Event Organiser is a Club), be it an Association running the event or a Club affiliated to an Association.

The webform is available at the following URL and is ready to accept applications for Netball Activities commencing 1 January 2024:-

https://netballqld.formstack.com/forms/trialling_member_application

Any questions regarding the Trialling Member process, please direct them to Shawn Fitzgerald, Netball Queensland’s Member Services Manager.

Season 2024’s Local Area Marketing Kits Have Been Released

Looking for marketing collateral that you can amend and use to attract new players and officials for the Season 2024, Netball Queensland has created multiple variations that can be used in multiple platforms to assist your Association or Club in becoming part of the Netball Queensland Community.

To access these marketing templates and materials, please visit the Local Area Marketing section in Netball Queensland's Member Toolbox.

Opening Date for Season 2024 Registrations in NetballConnect - 1 December 2023

Season 2024 registrations will be available to create in NetballConnect from 1 December 2023.

As a representative of a Member Association, Member Association Affiliated Club or Community Member, if you have any difficulty or require any assistance in this matter, please contact the NetballConnect Helpdesk.

Issuing of 2024 Netball Queensland Membership Tax Invoices to Its Organisational Members

Please be advised that tax invoices for Netball Queensland’s Category One (Member Associations) and Category Five (Community) Members to cover Netball Queensland’s 2024 Membership Period (January – December) will be generated and distributed during January 2024.

There is no change to the Category One’s 2023 membership pricing for Netball Queensland’s 2024 Membership Period.  For the avoidance of doubt, the pricing tiers are as follows:

The prices above include G.S.T.

The price of Category Five (Community) Membership for Netball Queensland’s 2024 Membership Period is $150.00, including GST, which is also the same price as 2023.

Any questions regarding the above can be sent to Shawn Fitzgerald, Netball Queensland’s Member Services Manager.

Deadline for Finalisation of Season 2023 Deregistrations – 31 December 2023

As Season 2023 draws to a close, now is the time to review and finalise any pending deregistrations within your organisation (in box titled ‘De-Registrations’ after you first log into NetballConnect on an organisational profile or when you navigate to the ‘Home’ module) to make sure that you have completed the action required to progress the deregistration to the next level for eventual finalisation by Netball Queensland.

Season 2023 deregistrations need to be completed by the end of Netball Queensland’s 2023 Membership Period (31 December 2023).

If you have any queries at all regarding any pending deregistrations that are sitting with your organisation, or you need to understand what is required to progress or complete the deregistration, please feel free to contact the NetballConnect Helpdesk during the stated operating hours on the following webpage of the Netball Queensland website:-

https://qld.netball.com.au/netballconnect

If you want to be assisted while completing the deregistration process for a player or non-player, as you haven’t done one for a while or just want reassurance that you are completing the deregistration correctly, again, please contact the NetballConnect Helpdesk.

Redeeming Government Vouchers for Players’ Registration Fees

With the end of the year fast approaching, now is the time for the Netball Queensland Community to ensure that all government vouchers (FairPlay (QLD) and Active Kids (NSW)) have been processed and redeemed in NetballConnect.

For any government vouchers (FairPlay (QLD) and Active Kids (NSW)) that have not been redeemed and have a Netball Queensland component that is unpaid and outstanding, Netball Queensland will be issuing invoices to the organisations within the Netball Queensland Community that the player has registered with to finalise the resolution of these players’ 2023 Netball Queensland memberships prior to the end of the year.

To see what parts of a government voucher are allocated to which entity as part of a player’s registration, you will need to go to the ‘Finance’ module’s dashboard and enter the player’s name into the search section (towards the top right-hand corner of the screen).  Once the search results appear, find the registration you are seeking to find out about (use the registration date for additional clarification) and slide the scale underneath the players to the right, looking for the ‘Govt. Voucher’ subheadings under the ‘Competition Organiser’ and Membership headings.  You can also see what the voucher’s unique identifier at the end of the scale.

If you need assistance with redeeming the Queensland Government’s FairPlay vouchers through Enquire – please see the following Queensland Government webpage:-

https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/sports/funding/fairplay/providers/register#redeeming

If you need assistance with redeeming the New South Wales Government’s Active Kids’ vouchers through Service NSW – please see the following Queensland Government webpage:-

https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/redeem-vouchers-as-an-active-kids-provider

If you need assistance with redeeming vouchers through NetballConnect – please contact the NetballConnect Helpdesk during the stated operating hours in the following link.  Contact details (email, telephone and support requests) are available through the following Netball Queensland webpage:- 

https://qld.netball.com.au/netballconnect

For the removal of doubt, to obtain the funds linked to the FairPlay voucher, the redemption process needs to be undertaken through the Queensland Government’s dedicated redemption platform for these vouchers – Enquire (https://sr-cp.sr-enquire.cloud/register/business).

For the removal of doubt, to obtain the funds linked to Active Kids vouchers, the redemption process needs to be undertaken through the New South Wales Government’s dedicated redemption platform for these vouchers – Service NSW (https://account.service.nsw.gov.au/).