Sponsorship Fund

2011 Grant Recipients

Judging for SSF Round One 2011 begans on 1 June 2011.

Results will be published on this website as soon as the judge's decision has been finalised.

All eligible applicants who are unsuccessful in round one will automatically be considered for successive rounds in 2011.

2010 Grant Recipients

Congratulations to the clubs and associations below who are all recipients of the 2010 Sportscover Sponsorship Fund. Close to 1000 applications were received for the 2010 Sportscover Sponsorship Fund.

The 2010 Sportscover Sponsorship Fund (SSF) closed on 30 November 2010. Details latest SSF may be viewed on the Supporting Sport page of this website.

There were three rounds of grants in 2010, each shown below:

2010 - Round Three Recipients 1 October 2010 - 30 November 2010 $750USD X 6 (or equivalent local currency)

Busselton Water Polo Association of WA, Australia, has promoted the game of water polo to all ages in their community for the past 15 years, as an energetic game without high impact on the body. The club currently boasts over 40 members in their juniors group and is aiming to continue building membership numbers for all ages. Grant money will assist the club with the refurbishment of playing goals.

Emmaus Netball Club Inc of St Marys South, NSW, Australia, promotes equal access and opportunities for their participants with positive experiences of the game, support and skill development as players, umpires, coaches and officiating staff. The club aims to use funding to purchase six new, standard height, netball goal posts with protective padding as well as for the relocation of training equipment from a small cupboard into a suitable storage shed.

Inverloch Surf Life Saving Club has been operating in Victoria, Australia, for the past 12 years, providing an active and family orientated club, currently training over 150 children (7-14 yrs) in their Nippers Program and servicing the wider community with their volunteer beach patrolling service. The grant will be used to purchase portable/waterproof first aid kits specifically designed for surf life saving.

NPGA Supporters Association of Kildare, Ireland, is a young club (2 years) bringing gymnastics to children of all backgrounds and levels. Their aim being to enhance each ability and help participants to achieve their goals through fun and encouragement. Sportscover's grant will go towards purchasing protective padding and additional safety equipment that will allow the club to provide for children with special needs and pre-schoolers.

St Patrick's Junior Rugby League Club is a small club promoting the game of Rugby League to various age groups and ability levels in their local area of Blacktown, NSW, Australia. St Patrick's will use their grant for the purchase of two fold away stretchers which are desperately required at the club for player safety.

Yamakwai Judo Club in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is striving to produce some of the best talent in their sport with a keen focus on the benefits of exercise through the development of their judo skills. Sportscover Sponsorship Funding will assist with the cost of travel to and from competitions as well as additional training for coaching staff.

2010 - Round Two Recipients 1 August 2010 - 30 September 2010 $750USD X 7 (or equivalent local currency)

Camberwell Cobras Volleyball Club Inc of Victoria, Australia, has both womens, mens and junior teams. They rely heavily on fundraising to provide for their club. The Sportscover Sponsorship Fund grant will be used to purchase their own equipment to run fundraising barbeques which will in turn aid in the funding of uniforms and annual fees for their new and junior players.

Donoughmore Basketball Club of County Cork, Ireland, have provided sport to young children in rural areas for over 21 years. Their grant will be used to upgrade basketball rings on the main court and also to provide portable units for the younger players.

Mount Gambier Bowls Club Inc of SA, Australia, has been operating for 106 years, providing facilities for members, school participants and community groups. Grant monies will be used for the construction of all year round weather protection for bowlers.

Touch Roosters 91 of Bures-sur-Yvette, France, has been operating for the past seven years with the aim of promoting the sport of touch rugby for all ages. The Sportscover Sponsorship Fund grant will be used to purchase equipment and to cover transport costs for youth development and the promotion of touch rugby in primary schools.

WA Kookaburras Floorball Association provides a social and sporting environment for floorball players at all levels in Wembley, Western Australia. The association have provided referees for international, Australian as well as state games and have consistently had members selected for Australian Men and Women's teams for the past five years. Grant funding will go towards providing equipment and transport costs to help introduce and educate primary school students in the region about the sport.

Whakatu Youth & Development Sports Club Inc of Nelson, New Zealand, promotes sport for the education and development of youth and was last year responsible for bringing boxing tournaments back to Nelson for the first time in 20 years. The club now has a number of golden glove champions, but more importantly are giving the youth an opportunity to live a healthy lifestyle. Funds granted to the club will be used for the purchase of boxing bags and gloves for these programs.

Woodville Glengarry Tennis Club Inc of SA, Australia, is a modest size lawn tennis club promoting junior tennis in their local area. In 2008 the club began developing a junior membership, which now hosts 50 members. The grant awarded through the Sportscover Sponsorship Fund will be used to assist in the growth of this junior membership, training coaches, purchasing coaching balls and other sporting equipment, as well as funding a free tennis clinic for the underprivileged.

2010 - Round One Recipients 1 June 2010 - 31 July 2010 $750USD X 7 (or equivalent local currency)

Elevation Outdoor Experiential Programs of British Columbia, Canada, operate a program which teaches snowboarding and mountain biking skills. Elevation's mission is to aid the development of snowboarding and mountain biking skills while promoting healthy lifestyle choices and helping support disadvantaged young people in the community. The grant will help in the operating of the snow and mountain bike program and assisting with buying a rack for their transport vehicle.

Gladstone Gymnastics of Queensland, Australia, whose mission statement is "Real gymnastics, Real fun" will use the grant to purchase safety equipment in the form of a foam wedge for safe landings and tumbles.

Little Aston Table Tennis Club of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, United Kingdom, are one of the oldest amateur sports clubs in the area having been in existence for 60 years. They were awarded the grant that will allow them to start a junior academy as well as renew and purchase equipment.

Raphoe Town Football Club of County Donegal, Ireland, will use the grant to purchase a playing kit for the senior ladies team who are playing in the Donegal Women's League at senior level for the first time this year. The team have come through the U12, U14 and U16 ranks as part of the club's development plan to increase female participation. The senior ladies team have previously had to play in old 'hand me down' kits from the men's team.

Rebels Baseball Club Inc of Wooden, ACT, Australia, has been in existence for 52 years. The grant will be used to replace equipment stolen when the Club shed was broken into. The replacement equipment will include senior bats and a junior pitching machine.

Riding for the Disabled Association NSW Tall Timbers Centre of Box Hill, NSW, Australia, are a volunteer organisation providing equine assisted activities for people with disabilities to develop and enhance abilities. They will use the grant to purchase equipment and saddlery to benefit the riders in their therapeutic riding programme.

Ulster Elks Hockey Academy of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, are a relatively new field hockey club who will use the grant to purchase hockey sticks, balls, cones and bibs for members as well as to community and school groups that their coaches deliver free sessions to throughout the year.

2009 Grant Recipients

In the 2009 round of the Sportscover Sponsorship Fund (SSF), seven $1,000 grants were awarded to amateur sporting clubs and associations that were affected by the Victorian bushfires in February 2009. The recipients were chosen from the SSF applications received from clubs up to June 2009.

Murray Anderson said, "We are delighted to be able to help the clubs affected by the bushfires. Grass roots sport is so important and we are pleased to be able to assist these clubs to get back on their feet."

Kinglake Football Netball Club
Kinglake Football Netball Club will use the funds to purchase a ticket box. The bushfires caused over $200,000 worth of structural damages to the clubs grounds, change rooms, public toilets etc.

Marysville and District Cricket Club
Marysville and District Cricket Club lost everything it owned in the February fires including the club rooms, equipment for five teams, memorabilia, etc. The club will use the $1,000 grant to fund the basic equipment required to get a cricket team back out on the field. This includes score books, training balls, nets stumps and bails, etc.

Kinglake Riders Club
Kinglake Riders Club lost all the equipment it owned as a result of the bushfires, including jump wings, training blocks, poles/dazzle-boards and its equipment trailer. It will use the funds to purchase replacement show jump equipment that will allow it to get back on its feet again.

Horsham Golf Bowling Club
Horsham Golf Bowling Club will use the grant to fix / replace burnt rink scoreboards, rink numbers and rubber backing to the bowling green ditch which were all burnt in the Remlaw Bushfire.

Labertouche Badminton Club
The club's hall was used as a drop-in centre for the community as well as volunteers. The club had recently spent $5,000 in upgrading the floors. Due to all the traffic and community meetings the floor will need a repolish, which will cost an estimated $1,000.

Mountain District Pistol Club
Mountain District Pistol Club's shooting range at was overrun by the Dixons Creek bushfire and their shooting shed was totally destroyed. They will use the grant to help replace their Quartz Digital Timers.

Kilmore Football Netball Club
Kilmore Football Netball Club will use the grant to replace Medical Supplies utilised during the Black Saturday bushfires. The KFNC opened its doors and resources for use as the main staging area for Kilmore East fires.

Sportscover Sponsorship Fund Recipients from previous years

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