Sporting clubs

We coordinate up to four Club Development workshops each year and collaborate with other City departments to provide access to more. Topics are chosen based on feedback provided by club committees on areas of administration and management that they feel could be improved. If you would like to recommend a topic for our next seminar, please provide feedback to us via email on customer@rockingham.wa.gov.au and complete the Annual Club Survey.

Past seminar topics have included:

• sponsorship/fundraising
• volunteer management
• grants and grant writing
• financial obligations and management
• first aid training
• sports taping
• AI for sporting clubs and community groups
• club planning

We support clubs to hold their own winter and summer club promotion days at sports and recreation venues across the City.  This helps local clubs attract and register new participants and promote their club to the broader community.

Get Active Together sports promotion days are usually held in February and August, but clubs can choose to hold their events at any time throughout the year.

Visit Get Active Together opens in a new window to register now. For assistance, please contact 9528 0333 or email customer@rockingham.wa.gov.au .

Each year our Recreation and Wellbeing team conducts a short club survey to gain important information from the more than 100 clubs throughout the City of Rockingham.

The key reasons for conducting this survey are:

• to keep an up-to-date contact database for clubs
• to understand more about your club and provide tailored training, events and activities
• it provides key information for the strategic and long-term planning we undertake regarding programming and infrastructure development
• it helps us to address any issues that appear to be affecting the clubs within the City of Rockingham.

If your club contact details changed throughout the year, please contact us with your updated details on 9528 0333 or email customer@rockingham.wa.gov.au.

The Homeground eNewsletter is published every two months to keep the local clubs, associations and residents in the City of Rockingham up to date with sport and recreation news, events, grants and other information. Consider sharing the subscription link amongt your club members.

Subscribe to Homeground

The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industriesopens in a new window is the lead agency responsible for the implementation of government policy and initiatives in sport and recreation. A key role of the department is to contribute to the healthy lifestyle of Western Australians by increasing physical activity in the community through sport and recreation.

Every Club is the latest program and will provide every club in the State with access to best practice resources on how to make their club succeed.

Whether it is bookkeeping, how to run a club Facebook page, engaging your members through social media, ideas for fundraising and better financial management, improved committee meetings or any of the other hundreds of small tasks club volunteers want to master – Every Club is a one-stop shop for anyone to access.

Every Club provides resources that anyone can access, at any time, for the specific needs of their local club.

Every Club Hub - Online Resourceopens in a new window

Club Training Calendaropens in a new window

Volunteer Involving Organisations (VIOs) are clubs, groups and organisations managed and run by volunteers within the community. VIOs include sporting clubs, resident associations, parents and citizens groups, community groups, clubs and organisations, both incorporated and unincorporated.

The VIO Management Guide has been developed to support the City’s developing sustainability program and to assist Rockingham VIOs and their hardworking volunteers. Healthy, successful VIOs are generally those that are proactive, organised, communicate regularly, have structured policies and procedures, and importantly, value and reward their volunteers and members.

The guide aims to address committee management challenges relevant to all VIOs in developing a good relationship with the City and the community. It is applicable to all Rockingham VIOs, new or existing, as a starting point for information relating to facilities, bookings, committee management, marketing, promotion, training and funding opportunities.

We operate a Community Grants Program (CGP) which covers requests for donations, sponsorships and grants. The CGP has four key areas comprising:

• Minor Grants (Travel Subsidy Grant, Youth Encouragement Grants, General Grants)
• Major Grants
• Major Events Sponsorship
• City Infrastructure Grants (Leases Property Grants: Maintenance and Rates Subsidy, Infrastructure Planning and Development Grants).

For further information or to access the policy, guidelines and applications, please visit the Community Grants Program page.

Other useful links:

• Grants Directoryopens in a new window
• Grant Guru Communityopens in a new window
• Lotterywest Grants Programopens in a new window.

• The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industriesopens in a new window aims to enhance the lifestyle of Western Australians through their participation and achievement in sport and recreation
• The Seniors Recreation Councilopens in a new window publishes a directory of sport and recreation activities for adults called 'Add Life to Your Years'
• The Australian Sports Commissionopens in a new window is governed by a board of commissioners who bring a range of expertise to guide the work of the ASC.  The board includes former athletes, business people and journalists, each with extensive, first-hand knowledge of Australia's sporting landscape
• Good Sportsopens in a new window works together with local sporting clubs to build a healthier sporting nation.  Be a part of Australia's largest health initiative in community sports.