Winning ideas funded in July 2019

Pedal Power – Leisure Networks

A bike education program for kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to encourage physical activity and social connection, delivered in partnership with Cycling Victoria and the Geelong Cycling Club.

Pedal Power will encourage kids with ASD to learn bike safety through an education program, to help them gain confidence and become active within their community. The program will also nurture a social/friendship network for the families, where they can lend each other support and share ideas.

She Can Ride – Yarra Ranges Shire Council

She Can Ride encourages girls aged 7-17 to become involved in cycling. The program will help build confidence, encourage new friendships and enable girls to foster a lifelong love of cycling.

The program will use female instructor and local role models to create a supportive and welcoming environment for young girls to help them develop as mountain bikers and as people. 

Casey Disability Sport Hub – Disability Sport and Recreation

The Casey Disability Sport Hub will be a dedicated resource, housed in a singular leisure facility, creating a place where people with disability (PWD), administrators and the broader community can come together and participate in a wide range of sporting and leisure activities, driving physical activity and life changing outcomes for a group who need it most.

This will be complemented by an information and education hub for the delivery of training amongst local providers of sport and recreation programs to ultimately create a welcoming and skilled environment that supports greater participation by PWD.

The Casey Disability Sport Hub will primarily be delivered at the YMCA Victoria run Casey Stadium indoor leisure facility in Cranbourne East.

City CALD Carer’s Wellbeing Program – City in the Community

Carers are a special community sub group that have often been neglected and overlooked from a recreation and leisure perspective. This project is aimed at providing opportunities to improve carer’s health and wellbeing through physical activity. It focuses on those from a CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) background who often face further challenges and barriers to good health and physical activity.

 Winning ideas funded in July 2018

Winning ideas funded in July 2017

Winning ideas funded in February 2017

 AFL Victoria - Female Indigenous Program 
An initiative for young indigenous women aged 16-20 years old about providing more opportunities to play AFL through carnivals, competitions and camps across metropolitan and regional Victoria. The program will also offer training and education for these women to develop their communication and decision making skills, resilience and a strong sense of cultural identity. 

Bushwalking Victoria’s Escaping Your Comfort Zone
Body positive hiking for plus size women.  This program aims to improve the self-esteem of plus-size women through a specialised hiking program, combined with a supportive friendship group.

Cricket Victoria in partnership with Proud2Play – Proud Cricket
An education program for Victorian Cricket Clubs to foster a more supportive culture for LGBTQI young people and increase their participation in cricket.

Collingwood Basketball Association – Stay, Play, Lead and Succeed  
A mentoring program for young people, predominantly of South Sudanese backgrounds, to keep them engaged in club basketball through a leadership development approach.

Sport Central in partnership with Golf Victoria – Ballarat District FlexiGolf Pass
A new initiative amongst Ballarat District Golf Clubs to engage local families and local golfers in a more convenient and affordable manner, with shorter game formats and casual memberships.

 Winning ideas funded in May 2016 

 Gymnastics Victoria – Team Gym 
A recreational gymnastics program for young people and teenagers who have never tried gymnastics.  It also gives gymnasts who no longer fit traditional programs a way to maintain involvement.

Cricket Victoria – Indoor 4’s 
Aims to boost cricket participation through an informal, fun and flexible program played between teams of four, for less than half an hour, at any time that suits the participants.

City of Greater Geelong, with GMHBA 
A flexible, fun 10-week web-based workplace team challenge that encourages moving more and sitting less in workplaces, at home and in the community.

Tenpin Bowling Victoria, with Tenpin Bowling Australia – Strike and Stride 
This program aims to get more Victorians active by providing Tenpin Bowling discounts when people walk to the bowling alley.

Aquatics and Recreation Victoria, with YMCA Victoria – Before school Energy Active Sports Tribe
A before school group activity program for 10-to-12-year-old kids, run out of leisure centres. Run on school term basis, the program includes a healthy breakfast and transport to school.

 Winning ideas funded in November 2015

 Melbourne City Football Club – City Strikers Walking Football 
City Strikers is a modified walking football program (no running or contact) that encourages older people to become more physically and socially active.  The program also trains Young Leaders from multicultural backgrounds to run the program in community.

Squash & Racquetball Victoria – Pop Up Squash 
Aims to introduce and re-engage people with squash by transforming empty retail space into temporary street squash courts.

BMX Victoria – Pumped for BMX
Aims to utilise under-programmed BMX facilities within local councils to deliver a new 6 week program for local primary school children.

Waterpolo Victoria – Bumpa Ball
Sees participants playing modified games of water polo whilst floating in blow-up tubes. 

Basketball Victoria – Stride Basketball
Aims to engage sedentary office workers during office hours via a 'Stride Corporate Cup' at the State Basketball Centre.

Softball Victoria, with Blue Earth – Active Families Playing Together
A program run within playgroups to allow parents to play softball 7s whilst children engage in games, before everyone plays together in a fun, mixed age format.