Templestowe Park Primary: Leader Local Grant winner to install sports lighting

Templestowe Park Primary School is celebrating after a $1000 Leader Local Grant. The cash means the school will be able to install new lighting, so its sports area can be used all year round.

Templestowe Park Primary School won a Leader Local Grant to install lighting at their synthetic sports pitch. Twelve-year-olds at back are Lily, Kris and William, with Thomas (8), Grace (9) and Kara (10) at the front. Picture: Ellen Smith

Plans to install lighting will make Templestowe Park Primary School’s synthetic sports area usable all year round for community groups and school events.

The school was named the winner of Manningham Leader’s $1000 Leader Local Grant after receiving 1115 votes online, with the grant to be put towards the lighting project.

A school council meeting next Tuesday is expected to finalise technical detail after quotes were sought recently.

School council member Doug Rutter said the work would be a “win/win for everyone”.

“We have a couple of groups who do adult exercise classes and this will enable them to use a broader area,” he said.

“It also means we can have school events all year round, we’re not just restricted to the daylight savings period.”

Templestowe Park Primary School is planning to install lighting for its synthetic sports area.

The school’s synthetic grass area was built last year, with the project to also include lighting for nearby paths.

They are also investigating energy efficient and renewable energy design options.

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Leader has given more than $313,000 to community projects since the program started in 2012.

This year there were 325 applications and more than 65,800 reader votes cast.

Leader Local Grants is presented by Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, and sponsored by smoothfm and The Langham Melbourne.

Details: leaderlocalgrants.com.au