February 2025

Strategic Planning 

Are you ready to take your sporting club to the next level? A solid strategic plan is your secret weapon for success—and we’re here to help you crush it!

Join DTIS on 12 February 2025 for the ClubIQ webinar, “Vision to Victory: Strategic Planning Essentials for Clubs”. Packed with tips, tricks, and tools, this fun and interactive session will have your club aiming high in 2025.

What You’ll Learn:

1. Learn the key steps to develop an effective strategic plan tailored to your club’s needs.
2. Create a mission, vision, and values that inspire your members and community.
3. Discover how to set realistic and measurable goals to drive your club's progress.
4. Learn how to spot your club’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges.
5. Gain the confidence to build an action plan that turns your plan into a success story!

Why Attend?

This webinar is ideal for club leaders, committee members, and administrators looking to strengthen their club’s foundations and build a sustainable future. You’ll leave feeling confident you can turn your club’s dreams into reality!

📅 Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 - 12:30pm
 📍 Where: Online (register for access)

Congratulations to the Go Clubs Infrastructure Grant Recipients

Congratulations to the clubs that were successful in the 2024/25 Go Clubs Infrastructure Grant.  The grant was heavily subscribed and the clubs that were successful for this round submitted a well thought out and robust grant application.

So, what’s next for 2025?

Expressions of interest will open in June for the 2025-2026 infrastructure grant for eligible organisations for up to $25,000.

For more information, please head to the Go Clubs Infrastructure Assistance Grant Page or contact your Go Clubs Officer on 07 4044 3283 or mailto:goclubs@cairns.qld.gov.au

Free Good Sports Workshops: Alcohol

Your club plays a critical role in supporting the physical and mental health of your members and local community.  Join the Good Sports team to hear about the potential risks your members might be exposed to if alcohol and other matters aren’t proactively managed.

The session will cover:

• An overview of Good Sports and what the program can provide for your club to support members’ health and wellbeing
• Why and how to proactively manage alcohol and other drugs in sporting clubs
• Ways to ensure safe transport to and from sporting activities and events
• Building positive role modelling behaviours to create a safe, friendly and healthy environment.

This event is free, but registration is essential.

Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Time: 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Location: Barlow Park Meeting Room,  Corner Scott and Severin Streets, Parramatta Park

If you have any questions, please email Tony McGuire tony.mcguire@adf.org.au.

Grant timelines

For more information, please head to each of the nominated sites below.

Go Clubs Infrastructure Assistance Grant

Cairns Regional Council Community Partnerships Grant

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

In addition, Cairns Councils Go Clubs Essentials Grant remains open year-round.

Club webinars 

How to Thrive in 2025

📅 Monday 10 February
⏱️ 6pm-6:40pm

Learn about our proven, new-age methods of generating sponsorship revenue, and providing real value for your partners. Community sport often relies on favours from contacts for sponsorship. Simplify it and offer real value.

For information:  CLUBMAP - Free webinars - CLUBMAP

How find and Keep Sponsors

📅 Monday 24 February
⏱️ 6pm - 6:40pm

How to find and keep sponsors. Learn about our proven, new-age methods of generating sponsorship revenue, and providing real value for your partners

For information:  CLUBMAP - Free webinars - CLUBMAP

How to attract more volunteers

📅 Monday 10 March
⏱️ 6pm - 6:40pm

Having enough volunteers continues to be the number 1 issue in community sport. Club administrators often resort to the 'I'll do it myself' mentality. …

For information:  CLUBMAP - Free webinars - CLUBMAP

Need help with your grant application?

Our Go Clubs website provides all the information you need to prepare for and submit a successful grant application.

They say an elephant never forgets.....

Are you looking to upgrade your facility on Council Land?

Our community organisations are making some amazing progress in improving community and sports facilities.

This is friendly reminder that when making changes to your leased areas that your club obtains council permission by completing an improvement works form.

Please also ensure that this is undertaken before any application for grant funding.

Applications are open now for a Sport4All Inclusion Coach

Sport4All are bringing a new role to Cairns QLD, so if you’re passionate about sports and inclusion and have lived experience or connection to disability, you can apply to become an Inclusion Coach with Sport4All.

What is Sport4All?

Sport4All is dedicated to making sports accessible and inclusive for everyone, especially individuals with disabilities. Sport4All is a Get Skilled Access initiative that employs a local Inclusion Coach who focuses on empowering grassroots communities, clubs, and schools to create inclusive sporting environments. Sport4All provides tools, training, and resources to foster equity in participation, not just in playing roles but also in coaching, volunteering, spectating and administrative roles. The program emphasises universal design and collaboration to remove barriers, ensuring everyone can enjoy the benefits of sports regardless of ability.

What does an Inclusion Coach do?

An Inclusion Coach plays a key role in the Sport4All program by helping communities adopt inclusive practices. These coaches typically have lived experience or connection to disabilities, allowing them to authentically advocate for accessibility and belonging. Inclusion Coaches work with local grassroot schools and clubs to build capability and capacity for including people with disability in all aspects of sport.

Sport4All Inclusion Coach – Aspire Community Job in Cairns, Cairns & Far North QLD - SEEK