Ravensthorpe Hockey Club Awarded Community TAB Sports Grant
27 June, 2018
Community TAB of Racing and Wagering WA (RWWA) has awarded Ravensthorpe Hockey Club a $4000 grant.
Out of over 200 sporting clubs from around WA who applied for a grant from Community TAB, Darlington Pony Club is one of two groups to receive a grant this month.
Ravensthorpe Hockey Club Treasurer Cindy Daw said the grant gives the club a chance to take more players to carnivals and provide them with new uniforms.
“The grant will help about four to six teams of juniors from year four to year ten children with travel and accommodation costs from the towns of Hopetoun, Ravensthorpe and Lake King to attend the annual Lower Great Southern Narrogin Junior Carnival, which is approximately 400km away, plus their supervising coach’s, umpires, team managers and parent helpers,” Ms Daw said.
“It is a very big weekend to attend on the middle weekend of the school holidays, 14th and 15th July, where they play three or four games a day and get to play on a real turf and watch an exhibition match.”
Ms Daw said the players love the event and always come home with new learnt skills.
“Also coming from a small association they enjoy the social interaction with other players from many other towns,” she said.
“We also plan to use the funds towards uniform jackets – which we’ve never had – bus hire and fuel, accommodation and meal costs for the two nights, a team meal at the exhibition match, game and training balls, an association marquee to keep children and playing equipment out of the weather as it’s normally freezing and raining.”
RWWA Chief Executive Officer Richard Burt said it is an exciting new initiative for Community TAB and a great opportunity for sporting clubs.
“We recognise the importance of grass roots sport throughout WA and understand that it takes time and resources to keep a club running within the community, so we are excited to be giving the opportunity to help relieve this burden on clubs,” Mr Burt said.
“RWWA has been supporting the WA sport and recreation industry for many years through providing over $30million of TAB turnover over 10 years to the Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) and more recently through Community TAB sponsoring the WA Football League and WA Integrated Football Program.
“Community TAB has been giving back to the WA community since 2014 through major partnerships, state-wide fundraising programs and sponsorship of prestigious events.”
Community TAB will provide at least one grant each month to a sporting club to further their contribution to the sport and recreation industry in WA.
Once a club applies for a grant, the application will stay within the pool until the grant is awarded.
Sporting clubs can apply for a grant at communitytab.com.au. Terms and Conditions apply.