A group of Year 8 rugby players are fundraising for their Australian tour and hope the community will help them achieve their goal.<\/p>\n
Rugby parent Anna Sutton said the money raised would help get the boys\u2019 team to Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a couple of Australian tours come through and play our boys in the recent years and a group of parents got together and said, why can\u2019t we do this for our Year 8s.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had initial conversations and those conversations have grown legs and now those legs are moving.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe we\u2019ll need $80,000 and budgeting for around $3000 per child, so all of the travelling kids will be fully funded as well as a number of chaperones,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have done food and bars for birthdays, car parking and have a fourwheel drive event in Bendigo in March.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Ms Sutton said the rugby tour was planned for the October school holidays, so the team members were hoping to raise most of their funds before the peak of the rugby season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are always looking for opportunities for the kids to earn the money, the trip is for them so we want them to get behind it, rather than the parents doing all the work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want them to be involved in the fundraising as much as we can so they can appreciate the value of it,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Sutton said there would be 22 players going on the tour, accompanied by four chaperones and several parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team is all local kids that have played over the years for Upper Clutha.<\/p>\n
\u201cYear 8 is the final year playing for the club before they play for school.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys are so stoked about it, there is a lot of excitement going around,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n
The rugby tour is set to be five to seven nights with the boys playing at least three games between Sydney and Orange.<\/p>\n
For more information, go the Junior Upper Clutha Rugby Club Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of Year 8 rugby players are fundraising for their Australian tour and hope the community will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-494956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494956","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=494956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}