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The Barwon Respect Cup is a community-based initiative that supports schools to promote healthy relationships, identify negative relationships and promote bystander intervention. The Barwon Respect Cup aims to raise awareness of issues relating to gender-based violence and provide young people with the confidence to initiate activities that prevent and respond to gender-based violence within their school communities.


The 2024 Barwon Respect Cup event will be held in Term 4 (Thursday 17 October) and will bring together selected Year 9 students from schools across the Greater Geelong region to GMHBA stadium for a morning of workshops exploring issues of consent, gender roles and equity. The students will have the opportunity to brainstorm different campaigns and initiatives they could run in their schools to raise awareness and promote respectful relationships. These workshops are followed by a mixed round-robin netball competition with a ‘respectful twist’.

Schools will be responsible for selecting 15 year 9 students to partake in the 2024 Barwon Respect Cup event, transporting their students to and from the venue, providing at least two teachers to attend and support the event and supporting students to initiate awareness raising action or event within their school communities.

The Barwon Respect Cup is run in partnership with Netball Victoria and the Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre. The Barwon Respect Cup Committee is a collaboration of services from several organisations in the Barwon region that are taking a proactive approach to promoting respectful relationships.

The committee includes:

  • Netball Victoria
  • The City of Greater Geelong
  • Barwon Community Legal Services
  • The Victorian Department of Education (Respectful Relationships)
  • The Sexual Assault and Family Violence Centre

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2024 Respect Cup - Application Form

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Would your Year 9 cohort be able to participate in the Love Bites program (delivered at your school)? Required