{"id":9741,"date":"2020-12-23T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2020-12-23T06:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:20:56","slug":"100-million-to-build-and-upgrade-sports-facilities-in-nsw-cities-and-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/100-million-to-build-and-upgrade-sports-facilities-in-nsw-cities-and-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"$100 MILLION TO BUILD AND UPGRADE SPORTS FACILITIES IN NSW CITIES AND REGIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports facilities will be created and upgraded across the State under the NSW Government\u2019s\u00a0<em>Greater Cities and Regional Sport Facility Fund.<\/em><br \/>\nThe two-year program was a highlight of the recent budget and will see $50 million available to organisations and councils in 2020\/21 with a further $50 million available next financial year.<br \/>\nDeputy Premier John Barilaro said the Fund will stimulate local economies, boost employment and promote healthy lifestyles across the State.<br \/>\n\u201cInvesting in new and existing sports infrastructure is vital to improving the health and wellbeing of people right across NSW,\u201d Mr Barilaro said.<br \/>\n\u201cThese projects will create a construction boom throughout the State and importantly in our regions, boosting employment as part of the NSW Government\u2019s multi-billion-dollar infrastructure pipeline.\u201d<br \/>\nActing Minister for Sport Geoff Lee said inclusive projects that encouraged the participation of females and people with a disability will be prioritised.<br \/>\n\u201cThe\u00a0<em>Greater Cities and Regional Sport Facility Fund<\/em>\u00a0will inject $100 million across metro and regional NSW as the State recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d Mr Lee said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to build and upgrade sports facilities and recreation spaces to enable more people to participate in sport to be active, healthy and have fun.<br \/>\n\u201cThere will be new or upgraded change rooms and disability access and that will encourage more people to feel comfortable getting changed before or after their activity.\u201d<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<em>Greater Cities and Regional Sport Facility<\/em>\u00a0Fund will provide grants from $100,000 &#8211; $1 million. Applications close 26 February 2021:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.nsw.gov.au\/clubs\/grants\">https:\/\/www.sport.nsw.gov.au\/clubs\/grants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports facilities will be created and upgraded across the State under the NSW Government\u2019s\u00a0Greater Cities and Regional Sport Facility Fund. The two-year program was a highlight of the recent budget and will see $50 million available to organisations and councils in 2020\/21 with a further $50 million available next financial year. Deputy Premier John Barilaro &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/100-million-to-build-and-upgrade-sports-facilities-in-nsw-cities-and-regions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$100 MILLION TO BUILD AND UPGRADE SPORTS FACILITIES IN NSW CITIES AND REGIONS&#8221;<\/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-9741","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\/9741","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=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}