{"id":357133,"date":"2025-12-19T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357133\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:12:09","slug":"afl-clubs-facilities-successful-in-nsw-clubgrants-infrastructure-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357133\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL clubs\/facilities successful in NSW Clubgrants Infrastructure Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three community AFL clubs and facilities from across New South Wales have been successful in Round 2 of the 2025 NSW Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grant.<\/p>\n<p>Marrar Football Netball Club and Nelson Bay AFC were awarded grants, alongside North Dalton Park Regional Sports Centre which is home to the Wollongong Lions on the South Coast. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The grant sees all three recipients share in over $640,000 in funding, to be dedicated to lighting upgrades across the three club facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL has also pledged another $50,000 each to Marrar and Nelson Bay\u2019s lighting projects.<\/p>\n<p>Round 2 of the 2025 NSW Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grant received over 200 applications, with only 25 of those awarded funding to improve their facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Head of AFL NSW\/ACT Andrew Varasdi said: \u201cThis is a fantastic outcome for community AFL in New South Wales, and for the communities that these clubs serve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImproved facilities are critical to creating welcoming environments, and these projects across the Riverina, the Hunter and South Coast will help ensure our clubs can continue to grow a diverse playing base and deliver lasting benefits for their communities.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the AFL\u2019s facility management and development, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/play.afl\/facility-management\/funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three community AFL clubs and facilities from across New South Wales have been successful in Round 2 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-357133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}