Clubs inject $1.7m in community causes

Ten local clubs pulled out their cheque books to inject 144 projects with vital funding to further community causes.

From lefft: Ash Cater, Royal Life Saving Society, and Kimberley Noffs, health promotion manager, Royal Life Saving Society, with George Taylor, president of Cabra Vale Diggers Club, at the Fairfield area Club Grants presentation.

Ten local clubs pulled out their cheque books last Wednesday at Cabramatta Leagues for the annual Fairfield Club Grants presentation, where representatives for 144 community projects were given vital funding to further community causes.

Cabra-Vale Diggers presented $486,000 in grants to be used for 34 community projects, including a $52,00 grant to the Australian Chinese Youth Sports Federation.

The federation will use the grant to launch the Forever Young Elderly Program, a project that aims to keep pensioners and retirees actively socialising by way of different activities.

Mounties awarded $293,000 to 27 projects, including a $77,000 grant to the Ted Noffs Foundation.

Funds for the grant will be used to launch Liverpool Street University counselling service, a project that aims to provide drug intervention by getting young people involved in art, dance, music and culture.

Dozens of initiatives will kick off across south-west Sydney as a result, including Basketball for Disadvantaged Kids, and Awareness and Self Defence for Women, both by the Police Citizen Youth Club, and Adult Swim and Survive by the Royal Life Saving Society of NSW.

Donations

Cabramatta Bowling: $69,967 for 10 projects

Cabramatta Leagues Club: $29,830 for 3 projects

Cabra-Vale Diggers: $485,722 for 34 projects

Canley Heights RSL: $119,388 for 14 projects

Fairfield RSL: $105,546 for 8 projects

Marconi: $276,766 for 28 projects

Mekong: $99,340 for 8 projects

Mounties: $293,083 for 27 projects

St Johns Park Bowling Club: $200,848 for 12 projects

Triglav: $41,500 for 5 projects