Maroondah United soccer club wins Leader Local Grant

Maroondah United players and fans will no longer be shivering on the sidelines after the soccer club won a Leader Local Grant.

Maroondah United soccer club are the winners of this year’s Leader Local Grant. Picture: Chris Eastman

Maroondah United has well and truly kicked a goal in this year’s Leader’s Local Grants.

The Croydon-based soccer club, which competes in the Victorian Churches Football Association, received the most reader votes for its project and is Maroondah’s $1000 grant recipient.

The club has no undercover area at its home ground Silcock Reserve.

It will use the grant to buy four pop-up gazebos to give players and parents shelter when it rains during games.

Club president Wendy Scott said the gazebos would also help keep players’ bags and equipment dry.

Maroondah United are getting new gazebos to give their players shelter. Picture: Supplied.

“We bring tarps to cover over all the bags and equipment, and now we don’t need to do that,” she said. “It’s nice to be able to offer some shelter.”

Ms Scott said she was impressed at how the club’s members banded together and voted for the project.

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She said the gazebos would make the club more attractive and the grant would free up money for them to use in other areas.

“It makes other clubs more willing and happy to come to our ground,” she said.

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

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