The Albanese Government is investing $136 million in sporting grants across Australia, helping more than 100,000 women and girls enjoy better facilities at their local clubs.
The funding will provide 166 grant recipients new and modified facilities for women and girls across a range of sports. Recipients include local government, community, not-for-profit and sporting organisations.
These grants represent the facilities stream of funding, the second and final stream to be announced from the Australian Government's $200 million Play Our Way program.
Funding will complement the $55.6 million offered to 124 organisations under Stream 2: Participation and Equipment, and will be offered nationwide, with a focus on facilities for women and girls who face additional barriers to participation. This includes women and girls who have a disability, are First Nations people or from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
The successful projects will help women and girls participate in sport and physical activity by removing barriers, reducing discrimination and promoting equality.
Each application for Play Our Way was thoroughly assessed and reviewed in accordance with the published Grant Opportunity Guidelines. This ensures fairness to all applicants and greater sporting opportunities for women and girls.
Grant recipients will receive further information to put in place funding agreements and finalise the process.
The Play Our Way program has been created to provide greater opportunities for women and girls to access, participate and remain involved in sport and physical activity.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Sport, Anika Wells:
"Play Our way is the single biggest package for women's community sport and will help more than 100,000 women and girls enjoy better local facilities.
"There are too many women and girls who are changing in men's dressing rooms, playing on poor courts and fields. These 166 projects will address a sporting imbalance that has festered for too long.
"The huge response to the grants, and the range of great project ideas, show that Australian communities want to be more supportive of women and girls.
"I am confident the successful projects will have a major effect by signalling that every person has the right to enjoy sport, at every level."
