Festival Date: 8 March - 16 March 2025
Location: Various locations around Lake Macquarie
Expanding on Lake Macquarie City Council’s International Women’s Day celebrations, the 2025 Lake Mac Women in Sport Festival is a weeklong celebration of the relationship of women and sport, tied together by four themes:
- Empowerment
- Advocacy and Power
- Athletic Excellence
- Community and Support
The festival is designed to:
- Celebrate the athletic excellence of local and national professional, and amateur sportswomen.
- Increase awareness of the health and social benefits of taking up sport and/or exercise.
- Encourage more women and girls remain active throughout their different life stages
- Provide the opportunity to try-out a wide range of sports and engage with local sporting groups, and organisations.
- Educate all members of the community about impact sport can have for women in regard to empowerment, confidence, and its impact on their personal and professional lives.
What’s planned for 2025?
The festival will host the Try a Sport Family Day (8 March) and the Inspirational Women in Sport Breakfast (12 March) at the newly redeveloped Hunter Sports Centre, Glendale.
The Try a Sport Family Day, set up in expo style format, is designed to allow local community members the chance to come and try or get a taste of the sports on offer within the LGA. For sport organisations it's the chance to increase awareness of the sport and take new registrations or enlist new members.
The Inspirational Women in Sport Breakfast will feature a keynote speaker of sporting prominence who will share their personal and professional career journey, which includes breakfast and a meet and greet.
Be part of the Festival!
The festival is also taking expressions of interest from local sporting individuals, organisations, associations and clubs to provide events, activities and experiences for women, young girls or initiatives aimed at improving and supporting inclusive participation in sport.
Your organisation can participate in the festival in two ways:
- holding a free stall at our Try a Sport Family Day or
- delivering an event, activity or experience aimed at women and girls between 8-16 March 2025
Expressions of Interest are open from 5pm 29 October 2024 until midnight Sunday 1 December 2024.
Apply for a Free Stallholder space at the Try a Sport Family Day
Saturday 8 March 10am – 2pm:
Hunter Sports Centre
We will provide a minimum of a free 3m x 3m stallholder space.
To hold a stall at the Try a Sport Family Day your organisation will:
- provide an interactive activity/game all the family can participate in.
- provide their own marquee, table and other equipment needed to promote or sell products/tours/memberships.
- complete a risk assessment, ensure Public Liability compliance as required.
- Work with us to promote your organisation and the festival through all relevant marketing channels.
Deliver an event/activity or experience
Funding (up to $750) is available for sporting clubs, associations and/or local businesses to
- Deliver introductory session (come n try sessions)
- Host a sporting competition/tournament /knockout/championship for women
- Coaching or masterclasses across the week.
- Requests under this category could also be funding towards adventure activities, wellbeing escapes, or personal development experiences.
We expect the applicants would use the funding to assist in delivery and/or participation of the activity, e.g. providing the event for free that enables first-timers to try the activity, enable inclusive participation, etc.
To be eligible for the funding (part or whole) your organisation will:
- Hold the event within the week 8-16 March 2025.
- Attend and host an interactive stand at the Try a Sport Family Day to be held on Saturday March 8 2025, 10am-2pm. (This is designed to enable you to promote your activity and increase registrations/ bookings)
- Utilise the funding on approved items as per Council’s funding Policy.
- Provide details of the event for promotion as part of the festival program by the due date
- Provide logos and details of the organisation for inclusion on marketing materials and website by the due date
- Share festival on social channels and any other channels the organisation uses.
- Complete a risk assessment, ensure Public Liability compliance as required.
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