The Werribee Centrals are the recipients of two grants, that will enable them to keep safe and ensure others are too.
Energy Safe Victoria’s Safer Canteens grant aims to help Victorian clubs buy safe and efficient electrical gas appliances for their canteens.
Club spokesperson Alan Stewart said the $500 in funding was welcomed.
“Local sporting groups coming out of COVID have had lots of issues anyway, volunteer wise and financial wise,” he said.
“We were looking to fund the purchase of a new pie oven, our one is old and it’s got a faulty switch on it, so we thought, ‘well, why not?’.”
The second grant was delivered by the AFL and WorkSafe Victoria’s Club Safety Fund, and Mr Stewart said the club was chuffed to receive the funding.
“We submitted for a grant of $2500 to purchase to new defibrillators, one was to sit at the netball courts because the netball courts are a fair way away from the club rooms where the defib sits, and the other one is to replace a very old one that we had at the auskick centre,” he said.
“Just these little grants, being able to get in there and do little things, we would never have been able to afford two defibrillators, without taking the money out of something else.”
