For this winter, Regional Sport Victoria has introduced the Stride into Sport campaign, aiming to boost club registrations. This campaign will actively promote sporting opportunities available over the winter and highlight how the barriers to sport can be overcome.

Women’s Health Grampians would like to invite you to a Change Makers Dinner to be held in Ararat on Monday 22 May. The Change Makers Dinner is focused on Leading Change within the sporting community and how sporting clubs and associations can take meaningful actions to eradicate violence against women and their children from our community.

Sports Central is hosting Responsible Service of Alcohol Training for members of all community sporting clubs and leagues on Monday 27th March. The training is delivered by Ballarat Group Training and tailored to give participants confidence in serving behind the bar within a sporting club setting.

The Victorian Government’s Sporting Club Grants Program is now open. The program assists Victorian sport and active recreation organisations to purchase uniforms and participation equipment, to increase the skills of coaches, officials and volunteers and to improve operational capacity and accessibility.

Vicsport are presenting a 90-minute webinar which will focus on several key considerations for clubs, leagues and associations when creating child safe environments. The session will incorporate practical strategies and time for Q&A.

Sports Central will again partner with the Tackle Your Feelings program to make mental health training available to football netball clubs in 2023. Tackle Your Feelings is a free mental health training program for community coaches, committee members and club support staff.

Sons of the West is a FREE health program for men. The ten-week program consists of weekly two-hour sessions aimed at improving men’s health and wellbeing through a series of workshops, presentations, events and experiences.

Through the new ‘Community Sport Flood Recovery’ program, regional sporting clubs will be able to receive help in getting back to playing sport as quickly as possible.

As flood affected towns across Victoria begin relief and recovery efforts, the Victorian Government is working to minimise the risks floodwaters can cause to human health, and investing to support communities, including local sporting clubs, to rebuild and recover together.

Our thoughts go out to everyone across the Central Highlands region who has been impacted by flooding. The images we see both from individuals and sporting clubs are devastating, but seeing strangers come together to help their community is heartwarming.