MORE than $1 million in community funding was delivered to 360 sport and recreation groups though the past financial year, a 10 per cent increase on the previous year.
Federal and State government funding was received to deliver the $3.5 million Silver Jubilee Clubhouse at Spring Mountain, canteen and change rooms for Karalee’s Blue Gum Reserve, fence repairs at Bundamba’s Ipswich Knights, training nets at Marburg Mt Crosby Thunder Cricket Club, a scoreboard at Redbank Plains Bears junior rugby league and works to the Swanbank loop at Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway.
Ipswich groups benefited from $27,500 in Active Women and Girls funding from the State Government, $33,000 for the Active Australian Innovation Challenge from the Heart Foundation and $5,480 for Bike Riding Encouragement program from the State Government.
The annual Community and Sport Report Card handed to Council at this month’s Community and Sport Committee detailed a 50 per cent increase in the council’s Active and Healthy program, delivering 1953 activities and engaging more than 10,000 residents.
There were 182,000 hours of organised sport use at council facilities through the year, averaging 88 per cent utilisation, a 12 per cent increase on the previous year.
The city has 166 sport and recreation clubs across 41 sports.
Those clubs are based at 47 locations including 287 formal playing spaces.
The majority of the city’s facilities are under lights; 91 per cent of the city’s 101 courts, 74 per cent of the city’s 105 fields and 52 per cent of the city’s 91 other facilities.
The Goodna Community Centre was restored following the damage from the 2022 floods, reopening as a dedicated facility designed to improve community health outcomes.
