Sport Leadership Grants
These grants are aimed at providing women in sport with support and
access to leadership training and development opportunities to assist in
establishing them in the sport industry.
Grants available in the following areas:
- Coaching
- Officiating
- Governance
- Management / Administration
- Communications / Media / Marketing
Successful applicants will receive a one-off Sport Leadership grant of
up to $5000 for individuals and up to $10,000 for organisations. In
addition to their identified projects, successful individual applicants
are expected to attend a two day leadership workshop covering a range of
leadership and development topics, including effective communication,
conflict resolution and influencing change.
All successful applicants will be involved in the evaluation of the grants
program and contribute to its continual improvement.
Sport Leadership Grants - Individual
To be eligible to apply for a Sport Leadership Grant, individual
applicants must be:
- female
- established in a paid or volunteer capacity in community sport;
- available to attend an ASC Sport Leadership Workshop;
- an Australian citizen or have been granted permanent residence
status;
- aged 18 years or more;
- supported by a sporting organisation affiliated with a sport that is
recognised by the ASC.
Sport Leadership Grants - Organisation
To be eligible for a Sport Leadership Grant, sporting organisations
must be:
- affiliated with sports recognised by the Australian Sports
Commission;
- available to attend an ASC Sport Leadership Workshop;
- committed to support, encourage and provide appropriate ongoing
opportunities for female beneficiaries of the grant.
Who can apply?
Women from all corners of the Australian sports community are welcome
to apply. Women from culturally diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal women,
rural and regional women and women with a disability are encouraged to
apply.
Grants are distributed nationally within an identified sport(s) to
ensure the recipients have a pathway within their organisation.
Applications for grants will open Early in the year. Applications
usually will
close Late April.
Applicants will be usually be advised of the success or otherwise of their
application in June .
Examples of successful recipients of the grants:
- Hayley, a CEO of a sporting organisation, used funding to attend an
executive sport management program. ‘The six day intensive
residential programme focused on providing senior executives with the
most recent sport management knowledge and skills which enhance our
leadership capabilities, made our communication more effective and
advanced and refined our negotiation and marketing skills.’
- Katrina used the grant to complete a Level 2 Coaching Certificate
for Basketball, this progressed her skills to coaching at the National
Schools Championships.
- 'The course itself was of high quality. The opportunity to network
with other coaches and be exposed to alternative methods and view
points was invaluable to my development as a coach.’
- The Lakemba Sports and Recreation Club in Sydney received a
grant to go towards training 60 women in a soccer coaching course.
Significantly, all of the women are from culturally and linguistically
diverse backgrounds where sport is not a traditional pathway for
women.
- The Garnduwa Amboorny Wirnan Aboriginal Corporation received a grant
to conduct introductory basketball officiating courses throughout the
East Kimberley region in Western Australia. The aim is to have 100
women graduate through the course.
Further information
- For more information about the Sport Leadership Grants and
Scholarships for Women,
- contact the Women and Sport unit:
- Phone: 1800224412
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