Author: Bhavni Shah

Inspiring more girls into badminton Following the launch of Super Girls in November 2025, we have seen a good uptake of more girls into badminton. Super Girls is an exciting project to encourage more girls into badminton, as part of the wider Women In Badminton initiative. The key focus is to provide girls to come…

What is IWD? International Women’s Day (marked on March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. International Women’s Day (IWD) has been around for over a hundred years, as have many of the issues still…

In December 2025, Play Badminton Club hosted our first in-house Foundation Award (Level 1) in Badminton Coaching. A number of our Club members, they spent the weekend learning, training and demonstrating badminton techniques and activities to use as coaches. We are thrilled that two of our junior members participated in the course, making it a…

What is IWD? International Women’s Day (marked on March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a…

What is IWD? International Women’s Day (marked on March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a…

In January 2022, Play Badminton Club, started women’s only sessions on the first Tuesday of each month. This marked the start of Women In Badminton initiative. Our Club is a supporter of This Girl Can 😊 which is a nationwide campaign launched by Sport England. Our monthly Women’s only badminton sessions aim to encourage more…