New women and girls footy grant launches
The Australian Football League has launched a new grants program to benefit women and girls community football across the country.
The ‘2023 Women & Girls Community Grants Program’ is open to community clubs, leagues, and associations, who are invited to apply for grants that fund projects and initiatives of up to $5,000 (leagues and associations) and $2,500 (clubs).
Consideration will be given to projects that fall within three focus areas:
- Creating safe and inclusive environments for women and girls
- Increasing participation for women and girls (on and off the field)
- Increasing participation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls, and women and girls from culturally diverse communities
Applications are now open and will close on Friday, June 30, with grant recipients to be announced in late July.
The AFL has established a panel to oversee and assess grant applications. The panel comprises Tanya Hosch (AFL Executive General Manager, Inclusion and Social Policy), Susan Alberti AC (Chair, Susan Alberti Medical Research Foundation), Nicole Livingstone OAM( AFL General Manager, Women’s Football) and Debbie Lee (AFL National Women and Girls Action Plan Lead).
LINK TO GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION FORM
In 2022, the AFL approved more than $5 million in new investment to fund phase one of the Women and Girls Action Plan for the next three years, designed to drive participation and representation for women and girls across all aspects of community football from playing to coaching, umpiring and administering.
The action plan was developed to help achieve the aspirations in participation outlined in the Women’s Football Vision, which was released late in 2021 and has a stated objective that the game will strive for equal participation and representation by the end of this decade.
