VicHealth's 2008/09 Active Club Grants are now open!

Through this year's scheme, VicHealth will provide grants of up to $2,500 to clubs/organisations to purchase:

sports safety equipment
essential sporting equipment/items
volunteer and club training
portable sun shade

Closing date for applications: 12 December 2008

All incorporated sporting clubs and active recreation organisations are eligible to apply, especially those that target the Indigenous population, people with a disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and people from low socio-economic communities.

This year, sport and recreation organisations should apply for this grant online through VicHealth's website www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/activeclub.

Printed funding guidelines and application forms can be made available to clubs that do not have internet access.

We welcome your assistance in promoting this grant program, and have attached two advertisements (in jpeg and pdf formats) that you may wish to use for your website or newsletters.

For further enquiries please contact us on (03) 9667 1308.

Shelley White, Project Officer
Active Communities and Healthy Eating Unit
VicHealth (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation)
15 - 31 Pelham Street Carlton 3053
Phone: (03) 9667 1365, Fax: (03) 9667 1375
Email: swhite@vichealth.vic.gov.au Web: www.vichealth.vic.gov.au