Godfrey Textiles was founded in 1978, when my brothers were rowing on the international circuit and after I changed career path from being a PE teacher.

Like many other rowers, they couldn't buy the kind of clothing they wanted to wear in the boat, so they asked me to design and produce specialist kit.

I started with simple garments such as towelling shorts and then eventually went on to introduce all-in-one suits and the Godfrey waterproof, a first for rowing.

In the summer of 1986, we moved production from my front bedroom to a shared factory unit and demand for our rowing garments grew and grew.

In 1998, a coach of the Surrey County Netball Team asked us to produce some netball kit for her girls, after seeing our rowing kit being worn by the members of the rowing squad at the Tiffin school, where she taught.

From this one netball team wearing our kit, other teams started to enquire where their outfits had come from and our telephone number was passed on. We eventually realised that we could produce some of the best netball kit on the market and we decided to become a serious netball clothing manufacturer, as well as arguably the best rowing kit manufacturer around.

Since our early days we have constantly developed new specialist garments and accessories, introduced ranges designed for schools and universities and continued to lead the way in providing customised kit. We are definite market leaders for others to follow and attempt to copy.

In the last few years, we have renamed ourselves Godfrey Sports and in April 2005, we moved into an even larger industrial plant to increase our production capacity and keep up with demand!

Recently, we have invested more time, effort and money in to developing new products, finding the best performing fabrics available and of course, designing kit for the fashion-conscious netball player.

We also have all the best tools available for personalising your kit with either print or embroidery and there will be further developments in this area coming by 2007.

We believe we can offer you the best choice, the best quality, the best service and of course, the best prices!

I hope you enjoy the site and find all the kit you need!

Judith Godfrey