Member for Goulburn Pru Goward last week joined Ajax Colts Hockey Club President, Lauren Whalan and Liberal Candidate for Goulburn, Wendy Tuckerman to announce $3,310 of funding for the clubs littlest goal keepers.
\nThe grant comes from NSW Government\u2019s 2018\/19 Local Sport Program, which has allowed seven Goulburn electorate clubs to purchase new equipment, uniforms and improve their facilities.
\nMs Whalan welcomed the funding to assist increase participation in the sport.
\n\u201cIt can be hard to get kids to play goalie, especially if they are uncomfortable or have to wear old equipment \u2013 it doesn\u2019t make for much fun.
\n\u201cThe new goal keeping equipment will hopefully make it a bit less of a chore for kids to have their go as goalie,\u201d Ms Whalan said.
\n\u201cThe main aim of this program is to increase regular and on-going participation opportunities in sport and active recreation in NSW,\u201d Ms Goward said.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cHockey has a proud tradition in our region \u2013 this grant will help keep it going,\u201d Ms Goward added.
\n\u201cSport is a huge part of our way of life and the NSW Government recognises how important it is to our communities, for both social and health reasons,\u201d Ms Tuckerman said.
\n\u201cThe NSW Government is committed to delivering the best infrastructure to the people of NSW and I look forward to seeing the benefits of this upgrade for the community,\u201d Ms Tuckerman added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Member for Goulburn Pru Goward last week joined Ajax Colts Hockey Club President, Lauren Whalan and Liberal Candidate for Goulburn, Wendy Tuckerman to announce $3,310 of funding for the clubs littlest goal keepers. The grant comes from NSW Government\u2019s 2018\/19 Local Sport Program, which has allowed seven Goulburn electorate clubs to purchase new equipment, uniforms … Continue reading “AJAX COLTS HOCKEY CLUB KEEPER EQUIPMENT FUNDED”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}