With more than three million Victorians involved in community sport and recreation, Member for Mill Park Lily D’ Ambrosio, visited Bundoora United FC in South Morang to announce five grants of $1,000 for local sports clubs.
The successful recipients that been approved in the electorate from the Government’s Community Sport Sector COVID-19 Survival Package are Marymede Basketball Club, South Morang Football Club, Lalor Lions Sporting Club, Mill Park Football Club and Bundoora United Football Club.
These are the first grants from the Labor Government’s $40 million community sport package in support of players and volunteers as Victorians try to come back from the pandemic.
“Mill Park’s clubs are an integral part of our community and this support will help them pay the bills and make an eventual return to play a little bit easier,” D’Ambrosio stated.
“Ensuring community sport and active recreation organisations survive this crisis and come back better than ever is critical to our economic and social recovery, and to our community’s physical and mental wellbeing.
We know that people in Mill Park want to get out on the park and represent their local club more than ever – we’re working hard to make that happen and give local clubs the help they deserve.”
“We are grateful to the Andrews Labor Government and Lily D’Ambrosio, MP for their ongoing support to our club,” said Andrew Kyriazis, president of Bundoora United FC.
“This pandemic created many challenges for community sports clubs and every held available is more than welcomed. While we know that going back to normality will be challenging we look forward returning to our normal club activities that benefit so many young and older members in our community.”
The Community Sport Sector COVID-19 Survival Package has four categories:
- grants of up to $350,000 for large state sporting associations;
- grants of up to $200,000 for smaller state sporting associations, regional sports assemblies and academies and other state sport and recreational bodies;
- grants of up to $15,000 for associations and leagues;
- grants of $1,000 for individual clubs.
Applications will be accepted until 15 June 2020, or until the funding allocation is exhausted. For further information and directions on how to apply, visit sport.vic.gov.au/grants-and-funding