- State
Government's Community Sporting and Recreation Facilities Fund hands out more
than $20 million to 24 projects for 2024-25
- Club
Night Lights Program gives more than $3.4 million to 11 projects
- Funds
contribute to increasing physical activity and
participation in sport by supporting the financing of community infrastructure
and lighting up facilities for longer hours of use
The
Cook Government is once again showing its commitment to community sporting and
recreation needs by providing a major source of funding for the year ahead - $24.2
million in total for facilities' infrastructure and lighting up clubs at night.
More
than $20 million is being handed out to 24 projects via the Community Sporting
and Recreation Facilities Fund (CSRFF). Clubs and local governments are
receiving funding for improvements such as new changerooms as well as football,
netball, tennis, swimming, golf, bowling, BMX, and skate park facilities.
Meanwhile the Club Night
Lights Program (CNLP) is dishing out more than $3.4 million to 11
projects to upgrade lighting or install new floodlights.
An advisory committee of community, local government, State Government,
sporting and Aboriginal interests stakeholders are involved in the assessment
of applications. Recommendations are then made to the Sport and Recreation Minister
for approval.
The CSRFF and CNLP are administered by the Department of
Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. See the department's website
for further details: https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/funding/sport-and-recreation-funding/community-sporting-and-recreation-facilities-fund and https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/funding/sport-and-recreation-funding/club-night-lights-program
The
current round of CSRFF and CNLP - for small grants capped at $200,000 and for projects up to $500,000
-
closes on 28 March 2024.
Comments attributed to Sport and Recreation Minister David Templeman:
"This is a major win for our sporting and recreation
communities and I am very proud the Cook Government is supporting facilities'
infrastructure and the lighting up of clubs at night.
"We are committed to providing financial assistance to clubs
and local governments to develop sports and recreational infrastructure because it results in increased physical activity and extends
options available, for example enabling use of facilities after dark.
"Our Community Sporting and Recreation Facilities Fund and
Club Night Lights Program contribute to healthier,
more active and socially connected communities.
"These initiatives
ensure continuing use of facilities that would otherwise age and fall into
disrepair. While the ongoing improvements to changerooms improve accessibility
and improve participation rates among women and people who live with
disability."
Background:
CSRFF 2024-25 Forward Planning recipients
- $204,437 to Bunbury Football Club for
the construction of one new women's/unisex changeroom facility and upgrade of
one existing changeroom at Bunbury Football Club
- $532,822 to City of Bunbury for
the upgrade and reconfiguration of 14 netball courts to 12, plus the removal of
11 lighting towers and upgrade of six new towers with LED lighting to 200 lux
at Hay Park Recreation Ground
- $1,966,913 to City of Canning for
theconstruction of new clubrooms at Ferndale Reserve
- $1,300,000 to City of Kalamunda for
the construction of Scott Reserve Pavilion
- $300,000 to City of Melville for
the construction of a clubroom for Southside BMX Club
- $1,200,000 to City of Melville for
the redevelopment of changerooms at Len Shearer Reserve
- $1,089,464 to City of Rockingham for
the construction of new changerooms at Anniversary Park
- $614,200 to City of Swan for the
upgrade of Baskerville Pavilion
- $861,000 to City of Vincent for
the conversion of 12 synthetic grass courts to acrylic and installation of 350
lux floodlighting at Robertson Park Tennis Centre
- $2,500,000 to City of Wanneroo for
the construction of Alkimos Aquatic and Recreation Centre
- $269,875 to Collie Golf Club for
the installation of a new irrigation system at the 18-hole Collie Golf Club
- $667,179 to Shire of Beverley for
the upgrade of Beverley Swimming Pool
- $700,000 to Shire of
Bridgetown-Greenbushes for the construction of a new golf clubhouse,
Bridgetown-Greenbushes
- $401,012 to Shire of Murray for
the construction of bowling green canopy over "A" green
- $192,333 to City of Wanneroo for
the upgrade of the clubrooms at Montrose Park
- $606,666 to City of Canning for
the upgrade of toilets, changerooms and storage at Corinthian Park Community
Facility
- $925,701 to Shire of Chapman Valley
for Nabawa Recreation Centre Redevelopment
- $697,666 to Shire of Denmark for
the construction of stage one skate park, multipurpose court, and bouldering
wall at Berridge Park Precinct
- $1,600,000 to Shire of Dumbleyung
for the reconstruction of Dumbleyung Swimming Pool
- $655,000 to Town of Cambridge for
the upgrades to clubrooms at Floreat Surf Life Saving Club
- $926,653 to Town of Victoria Park for
the construction of a skate park and pump track at McCallum Park
- $1,000,000 to West Australian Football
Commission for the upgrade of 52 changerooms to all-accessible across Perth
metro area
- $384,860 to Shire of Kondinin for
the upgrade of Kondinin Sports Pavilion
- $1,206,789 to Shire of Katanning for
the reconstruction of oval surface and installation of five new poles with LED
floodlighting (100 lux) at Quartermaine Oval, Katanning
CNLP
2024-25 Forward Planning
recipients
- $598,660 to City of Gosnells for the
installation of floodlighting at Sutherlands Park Reserves A and B
- $191,180 to City of Greater Geraldton for the
upgrade of floodlighting to 100 lux LED at the Recreation Ground
- $161,945 to City of Joondalup for the upgrade
of floodlighting to 100 lux LED at Santiago Park
- $325,000 to City of Stirling for the upgrade
of floodlighting to 100 lux LED at Princess Wallington Reserve
- $280,883 to City of Stirling for the upgrade
of floodlighting to 100 lux LED at Des Penman Reserve
- $168,000 to City of Swan for the upgrade of
floodlighting to 100 lux at Baskerville Oval
- $220,701 to City of Wanneroo for the
installation of floodlighting to 100 lux LED at Heath Park
- $410,000 to Shire of East Pilbara for the
upgrade lighting to 100 lux LED at Capricorn, Boomerang and Kangaroo Ovals
- $199,354 to Shire of Mundaring for the
upgrade of floodlighting to 300 lux at Brown Park
- $274,968 to Shire of Northam for the
installation of four lighting towers and 300 lux LED at Bert Hawke Sports
Precinct
- $570,000 to Town of Bassendean for the
upgrade and installation of floodlighting to 100 lux at Jubilee Reserve
