The Forbes netball community will have a busy weekend ahead, when they will host the Club Forbes NetSetGo and Junior Gala Day on Sunday.

The weekend will start on Saturday when the boys and girls who have been playing Woolworths NetSetGo every Saturday will have their end of season presentations.

NetSetGo is played every Saturday morn­ing at 9:30am to 10:30am, allowing boys and girls from 5 years to 10 years enjoy the fun and skills of learning to play netball.

The Woolworths NetSetGo Forbes sessions have been growing in numbers every year.

The Junior Gala Day will be a celebration of grassroots junior netballers from ages 7 years to 12 years.

Approximately two hundred boys and girls will start the day with the skills warm up, coached by former Australian Diamond Susan Pettitt. Susan is now a regular for Forbes netball, and she brings her fun skills to start the day.

The day has been fully funded by Club Forbes, which allows all Forbes boys and girls to enjoy the day with no costs involved.

Forbes will have around 100 junior players taking to the courts, other teams will also be travelling from Young, Dubbo, Condobolin, Narromine, Ungarie, Orange Waratahs and Orange Life Studios.

No representative teams are able to enter the day, making it a full celebration of jun­ior netball. The Forbes Netball Association is the only association in the West/Central West region to run such a day.

The program for the day will be 9am to 10am Susan Pettitt’s skills warm up then at 10:30am the round robin of games will start and continue throughout the day.

The Forbes Netball Association is excited once again to support The Kids Cancer Pro­ject this Saturday, 2 August 2nd. Fundrais­ing in the form of a crazy hair and sock day will be held at the FNA NetSetGo session from 9:30am – 10:30am.

Netball Associations across the state have joined to make this an extremely suc­cessful day, with over $15,000 being raised to date.

Everyone is encouraged to dress up in their craziest socks and hair, and anything else they would like to do. Players are asked to please wear suitable joggers for their fun NetSetGo session.

Crazy socks will be available to buy for $5 with all money raised on the day to be sent to The Kids Cancer Project. A mini market stall will be available to purchase goodies like gifts, veggies, jams, pure wool knitted beanies, and the canteen will be selling pumpkin soup to warm people up. The stall will be cash only so make sure you bring along cash on the day. A 100 club will also be running, and will be drawn once all $2 numbers are sold.

Help from any parents would be greatly appreciated, please contact either Corrie ofr Robyn if you are available to help.

Last year the NetSetGo sessions raised $742 that was sent to headquarters in Syd­ney. The Kids Cancer Project funds vital sci­entific research to develop better treatments for all children with cancer.

The Forbes Netball Association gives back to the community in many ways and supports vital organisations that fight child­hood cancer. If we all have a go, we can make a difference!

The Forbes Netball Association is kicking off the start of the winter season, with the annual All Age and Representative Carni­val which will be held this Sunday. Over 500 players and officials will travel to Forbes to play some great games of netball, with a crowd of around 2,000-3,000 expected at the Stephan Field grounds during the day.

Teams from the Central West, Far West and Riverina will compete for a full day of games, in what is one of the leading carni­vals in the Central West Region.

Representative and club teams will travel from Blayney, Orange, Young, Bathurst, Cowra, West Wyalong, Parkes, Yass, War­ren and Forbes.

Ages will range in age divisions from 9-11 years mixed, 12 years mixed, 13 years, 14 years, 15 years and open ladies, with games starting at 8:30am and teams com­peting throughout the day in a round robin of games.

The FNA would like to thank Forbes Shire Council for their continued support in the preparation of the Stephan Field grounds.

The committee is looking forward to or­ganising the carnival, with a lot of prepara­tion to be done before the day as well as on Sunday.

Forbes teams will be represented by two teams in 11U, 12 reps, 13 reps and 14 reps, with the three representative teams preparing for the NNSW Junior State Titles to be played in July at Penrith.

It will be a massive day for Forbes netball families, the day starting at 6am, with the grounds prepared for the teams, by erect­ing Forbes team gazebos, final touches tothe courts and post pads, and the prepara­tion of the food to be served from the can­teen during the day.

There will be approximately 250 gamesof netball played on 12 courts during theday in a round robin of games. Head alongand catch some of the action.

Forbes Netball Association’s 2025 representative season will kick-off this weekend, when the FNA Open Representative team compete in the West/Central West Regional League competition.

The Forbes team includes; Matiese Byrnes, Kate French, Nat Hall, Phoebe Thomas, Kate Payne, Abbey Kelly, Iesha Sinclair, Emily Wilson, Tori-Leigh Petty, Jordi Petty, Alice Lind (withdrawn), Aurella White. Coach Robyn Kenny, Manager Lisa Thomas, Primary Carer Alice Lind.

The Regional League competition will be held at Orange PCYC over two days of 29 – 30 March. A West/Central West Regional League team will be selected from players aged 16-22, and will play in the Regional State Cup later in the year.

The Forbes team have been training since last year, working on their individual overall fitness, to ensure they are ready for the huge weekend of netball. The team started training together in February and have been meeting regularly each week, to bring together their teamwork and balls skills in high intensity training sessions.

This competition is the highest level of competition open ladies teams can compete in within the region, and the Forbes team is looking forward to playing extremely competitive games of netball over the two days All games will be 12 minute halves. The games start at 9am on Saturday, when Forbes will play Parkes, then Blayney 1, Dubbo 2, Blayney 2 and Mudgee 2. This will complete round one.

Round two will start on Saturday with return games against Parkes and Blayney 1. Sunday will kick off with games against Dubbo 2, Blayney 2 and Mudgee 2. A six team semi final series will be held on Sunday after the rounds, starting at 12:30 and the finals at 1:30. Goodluck to all players!

The Forbes Netball Association (FNA) re­cently held their AGM, and have elected a new committee for 2025. The committee is a mix of young ladies, plus experienced and returning committee members.

Heading the FNA is President Matiese Byrnes, and Vice President Zoe Tyack. The new Secretary is Corrie Barklimore, Treas­urer is Lyn Ford and the Assistant Treasur­er is Robyn Kenny. Minute Secretary is Zoe Tyack, and Publicity Officers (social media) will be shared between Corrie Barklimore and Carmen Duffy.

The Coach/Umpire Convenor is Robyn Kenny, with the positions of both umpiring and coaching joined into one position. Club Registrar is Monice Morrison, and Repre­sentative Convenor is Gabe McMillan.

Carnival Convenor is Mon Morrison, Discipline Convenor is Carmen Duffy, and Selection Convenor is Corrie Barklimore.

The position of Wardrobe will be covered by Carmen Duffy, and Safety Officer will be covered by Lyn Ford.

Unfortunately, the position of Canteen Convenor has yet to be filled, so if any­one is interested in joining the committee and volunteering for this position, they are urged to contact Secretary Corrie as soon as possible.

The Committee is extremely busy at the present time with lots of netball on the cal­endar. The Junior and Senior competitions are just starting up and if anyone is looking for a team to join they are urged to con­tact the Forbes Netball Association via Fa­cebook. Wednesday evenings are a great way to join in and get active with netball.