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$20,900 RECEIVED IN GRANTS FROM QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT

The club has been successful in receiving two grant funding applications from the Queensland Government.  $15,900.00 from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund to purchase a new line marker and a new zero turn mower.  $5,000.00 was also received in the Depts of Sport & Recreation Active Inclusion Grant in which help fund coaching courses in the Mackay District through the year.

AMART ALL SPORTS COMMUNITY KICKBACK PROGRAM

Do you have a Team Amart All Sports Card?  Did you know by linking Mackay Athletics Club to your card, our club is credited with 5% off the value of your purchase when swiping your card at their registers. The Amart All Sports Community Kickbacks program helps us purchase equipment for the club.

To add our name to your card or to join the loyalty program and reap the benefits from the program, see the team at Mackay Amart All Sports at North Point Retail, North Mackay,  where you can pick up the cards in store and register immediately or take home and register online.  Full details and benefits are detailed on the Amart All Sports Website or in store.

UNIVERSITY PLAN FOR SPORTS HUB IN MACKAY

The announcement by the CQ University on its plans for a sports hub at the CQ University campus in Mackay is welcome news for the sporting community.  The plan includes an aquatic centre, indoor courts and an athletics facilities which includes a synthetic surface track.

Cheryl Dixon, James Grech & Jos Grech were selected from a community meeting held in December 2010 to represent the regions athletics clubs and approached the Mackay Regional Council in February 2011 with the idea of an athletics facility including a synthetic surface track and we proposed the ideal location would be at the CQU site. From there, the MRC arranged a meeting with the CQU and with the representatives to discuss the idea.  

CQU had embraced the idea as it fitted well with the plans they had with the site to include more facilities for the growing campus and to make the uni more inclusive with the community for now and the future.

Meetings had continued throughout the year with a scoping document soon to be realised.

We look forward to continuing our input into the project for the benefit of the regions athletes.

Click here to read the recent Daily Mercury articles on the plans

Monday 29/11/11       Tuesday 30/11/11

MACKAY REGIONAL COUNCIL SPORT GRANT SUCCESS

The club has been successful in its application for a grant fund of $800.00 to replace some equipment that has gone past it’s use by date.  The new equipment will include, 2 new high jump bars, 1 pair quality high jump stands, 2 x 500g Javelins (new weight introduced October 2011), some new sand rakes and a few little other things.  Thank you to the Mackay Regional Council.