Female friendly pavilions and upgraded football pitches among 91 projects receiving Victorian Government funding

The Victorian Government’s 2022 Local Sports Infrastructure Fund is helping communities transform sports grounds, build female friendly change rooms, develop exciting play spaces and light up sports fields across the state.

Victorian Minister for Community Sport Ros Spence visited Mordialloc to announce $300,000 for a new playground at Peter Scullin Reserve - one of the 91 projects to share up to $30 million from the Fund.

The project will provide sensory equipment for children of all abilities at the popular reserve on the Mordialloc foreshore.

In Werribee, $1 million is being invested in a female friendly pavilion upgrade at Galvin Park - the home of the Point Cook Football and Netball Club and Werribee Centrals Cricket Club.

The Altona City Soccer Club will benefit from a $300,000 boost to upgrade soccer pitches at HC Kim Reserve.

Other supported projects include $1 million for the Baw Baw Shire to upgrade the Warragul United Soccer Club pavilion at Baxter Reserve and $300,000 to Murrundindi Shire to develop a new playground featuring accessible exercise equipment, flying fox and swing zone in the Eildon Reserves Precinct.

Minister Spence notes “Sport is the lifeblood of many communities and all Victorians deserve access to quality change rooms, grounds and playgrounds regardless of their age, gender, ability or where they live.”

The Victorian Budget 2022/23 provides an additional $88 million to deliver new and improved community sports infrastructure and programs to boost participation in local sports clubs and organisations. This includes continuing the popular Country Football and Netball Program, which is set to open for new applications in early 2023.

A 2020 report by KPMG commissioned by Sport and Recreation Victoria put an annual value of $7 billion on the economic, social and health benefits of community sport and recreation infrastructure in Victoria.

For more information about the Fund and successful projects visit sport.vic.gov.au.

Image: Altona City Soccer Club - an all-inclusive football club based at the H.C. Kim Reserve in Altona in the western suburbs of the City of Hobsons Bay, will benefit from a $300,000 boost to upgrade soccer pitches