Have Your Say on Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Community Sport
Through Play It Safe, we are inviting the Central Highlands sporting community to share their perspectives on health, safety and wellbeing in community sport. By having your say, you will help us better understand local challenges, needs and opportunities and inform practical initiatives that create safer, healthier and more inclusive sporting environments across the region.
Sports Central Launches “Allies in Sport” Project
Sports Central’s Allies in Sport project is engaging men in sporting club leadership roles across Ballarat to promote healthy masculinity, gender equality and respectful behaviour. Through education, support and practical action, the project will equip male leaders to help create safer, more inclusive sporting environments where women and girls are supported to participate, coach and lead.
2026 Winter Accessible Sport Calendar
The latest version of the 2026 Winter Accessible Sport Calendar is now available, showcasing a wide range of inclusive and all abilities sporting opportunities across Ballarat and surrounding areas from April to September.
Regional All Abilities Participation Grants Now Open
The Victorian Government’s Regional All Abilities Participation Grants are now open, providing funding to grassroots sport and active recreation clubs and community-based not-for-profit organisations across regional Victoria to support sustainable initiatives that remove barriers to participation and create more inclusive opportunities for people with disability to participate in sport and active recreation.
Sporting Club Grants Program Now Open
The Victorian Government's Sporting Club Grants Program is now open, offering funding to help community sport and active recreation organisations grow and thrive. With grants available across five categories, the program supports grassroots clubs to reduce participation barriers, strengthen skills, and build active, connected local communities.