HARRISON "HARRY" FOX TO RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIP FROM SPORT AUSTRALIA HALL OF FAME

Congratulations to our very own Harrison "Harry" Fox from Melbourne University Boat Club. on being awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship.

Fox has been successful in receiving a tier 2 scholarship where he will receive $5,000 sporting grant plus support and encouragement across the next 14 months from Sport Australia Hall of Fame and its extended member base.

“It’s a massive honour to be named as a Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship Holder,” Fox said.

“I’m extremely grateful to be given the resources and support from the Sport Australia Hall of Fame and to be part of such an amazing program with so many great present former and current athletes,” he said.

Rowing Victoria would like to acknowledge all of Sport Australia Scholarship recipients with an extra special congratulations to our Stroke from the Victorian Men's Youth Eight!

CELEBRATING THE WINNERS OF THE RV ACTIVE KILOMETRE CHALLENGE

Rowing Victoria is very pleased to announce that we had 103 members participant in the Active KM Challenge over the past month. Collectively we completed 17,442.8km! We would be able to travel to Dublin, Ireland one way with this many Kilometres!

We had 15 different clubs and 4 different schools competing in the challenge.

CONGRATULATIONS TO RICHMOND ROWING CLUB WITH THEIR VERY IMPRESSIVE AMOUNT OF KMS COMPLETED TO WIN THE CLUB PRIZE!

CONGRATULATIONS TO CAULFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL ON WINNING THE SCHOOL PRIZE!

Week 1 Winner was awarded to Natalie Webster from Yarra Yarra Rowing Club
Week 2 Winner was awarded to Craig Smith from Caulfield Grammar School
Week 3 Winner was awarded to Freerique Le Bescond from Richmond Rowing Club
Week 4 Winner was awarded to Craig Smith from Caulfield Grammar School

Honourable mention to C Ashley from Hawthorn Rowing Club you will also be awarded a prize for your efforts in the first week.

CONGRATULATIONS TO CRAIG SMITH FROM CAULFIELD GRAMMAR ON WINNING THE INDIVIDUAL PRIZE!

The Top 5 individuals are as follows;

Rowing Victoria would like to thank Rowhaus for their support with the prizes for the winners and their support in helping us announce the winners each week. We would also like to thank long time Rowing Victoria supporter The Regatta Shop for their support in providing each winner a t shirt. We would like to encourage all participants to acknowledge their participation in the program by purchasing a t-shirt from The Regatta Shop website here https://www.theregattashop.com.au/collections/rv-active-km-challenge .

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Please click on Read more to view the full list of results.

CELEBRATING ROWING VICTORIA'S LOCAL LEGENDS

The Victorian Rowing Community has many wonderful people within it. If you know an amazing person in your club or school that you think should be profiled. Please contact jen@rowingvictoria.asn.au 

This weeks Local Legend is Tess Rolley

Yarra River Dredging Schedule

Over the next five months Parks Victoria have scheduled a number of dredging operations.

Although current river access is limited, please be mindful of your surroundings whilst on the Yarra.

Dredging operations will be also suspended/ cleared for regattas.

15 October – 21 November        

• Dredging at Herring Island Landing & Como Landing,  disposal site upstream of Church Street Bridge
• Herring Island Landing & Como Landing closed – exclusion zone around works dredging site and disposal site

22 November – 28 November   

• Dredging at Burnley southern bank- navigational channel,  disposal site upstream of Church Street Bridge               
• Exclusion zone around works at dredging site and disposal site

29 November – 13 February      

• Dredging at Burnley Harbour, disposal site upstream of Church Street Bridge

• Exclusion zone around works at dredging site and disposal site

14 February – 22 March               

• Dredging at Botanic Gardens Landing, disposal site adjacent to Botanic Gardens

• Landing Botanic Gardens Landing closed – exclusion zone around works at dredging site and disposal site

Impact of COVID-19 on Community Sport.

As you will be well aware, COVID-19 has continued to wreak havoc on community sport in Australia over the past 18 months. This latest report from the Australian Sports Foundation highlights that community clubs all over Australia are facing unprecedented challenges, with more than 1 in 10 clubs at risk of going under during this ongoing crisis.

The report highlights serious and urgent challenges impacting community sports clubs in the areas of financial instability, declining participation and declining volunteering. The report makes it clear that sports clubs are struggling financially; not only is community sport largely shut down but traditional fundraising methods are also hampered or impossible due to Covid restrictions.

If you have time, we encourage you to join the upcoming ASF 45min webinar https://covid.sportsfoundation.org.au/webinarregistration where the ASF team of Sports Fundraising experts will walk you through some fundraising ideas through COVID and beyond. The webinar will cover in detail:

· Real examples of online fundraising, methods and results

· Tax-deductible fundraising and what you can raise funds for

· Fundraising through cancelled seasons and registration fees

Notice of AGM

Rowing Victoria is pleased to advise that the 145^th Annual General Meeting will be conducted online on the 31^st October 2021.

Additional information including the agenda is available via the following link

https://www.rowingvictoria.asn.au/events/114103/

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We are pleased to advise that we have the following nominations for two positions on the Rowing Victoria Board. The nominations are:

Nominee                  Proposer                   Seconder

Suzan Andrews         Patrick McNamara    Nick Inglis

Claire Grayston         Kaye Schmidt             Kathryn Taylor

Rod Jones                   Stephen Mollard       Terry Phillips

Deborah Spring         Leeanne Ambrose     Patrick McNamara

An election will be conducted at the 145^th nual General Meeting which will be conducted virtually on Sunday 31 October 2021 at 10:00am. Further details will be provided to Club and School Delegates closer to the event.

Change Our Game Scholarship Grants Program

The Change Our Game Scholarship Grants Program provides funding for women to access professional learning and development opportunities that enhance skills in sport and recreation leadership and management.

Women working or volunteering in sport and active recreation in Victoria are eligible for funding, but must be nominated by recognised state sporting association, state sport and active recreation body, local government authority or regional sports assembly.  

Applications to Round 1 of the 2021-22 program open on Tuesday 28 September and close at 5pm, Monday 25 October 2021.  

For more information please visit the Change Our Game website or email changeourgame@sport.vic.gov.au.

Support for sporting organisations

The Sporting Club Grants Program will provide grants to assist active recreation and sporting clubs that incurred financial loss during the recent lockdowns in Victoria.

Victorian sport and active recreation organisations that were impacted by the recent lockdowns in Victoria can now apply for a funding lifeline courtesy of the Victorian Government’s Sporting Club Grants Program.

Grants of $2,000 for Victorian sport and active recreation organisations with a payroll of up to $3 million, to compensate for irrecoverable costs greater than $2,000 arising directly from the cancellation or postponement of events during lockdowns from Friday 16 July to 27 July 2021 and Thursday 5 August to 23 September 2021.

This funding is only available to organisations that are not eligible to seek funding from the Business Costs Assistance Program. Please check your eligibility.