Applications open for Greater Sydney Sports Facility Fund

The NSW Office of Sport (OOSNSW) has announced the opening of the Greater Sydney Sports Facility Fund, with a webinar for potential applicants to be held this Wednesday.

Applications for the Fund, which will allocate $100 million over three years for sport facility projects, opened on 1st June. However, the NSW Government has been criticised for not including Wollongong in the funding criteria, with projects in the city apparently ineligible to apply for both urban and regional sports funds.

Announced in the latest NSW Government budget, the Fund has been created to improve local sporting facilities across metropolitan Sydney, with the monies to be used to fund up to 120 projects including new and upgraded ovals, dressing rooms, kiosks and football goals.

Advice from OOSNSW explains “the main objective of the Greater Sydney Sports Facility Fund is to ensure funding is allocated to those sporting facilities that deliver the best outcomes for the communities they support.

“The aim is to ensure that the right investments in community sport facilities are made and that the best value possible is achieved.

The program objectives are to: increase the number and type of sport facilities; improve the standard of existing sport facilities and increase participation in sport.

With the Fund to provide grants between $500,000 and $5 million for sport facility projects, for projects worth more than $1 million a 25% financial co-contribution of the grant amount requested will be required.

With Wollongong excluded from the program, local MP Paul Scully has expressed concern that sporting groups in the city are also being ineligible for the Regional Sports Infrastructure Fund.

Scully highlights that nearly 40,000 registered sporting players of clubs in the Wollongong local government area are “in no man’s land.”

The funding webinar will be held from 2pm to 3pm on Wednesday 6th June.

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