Registrations open for Sport NSW’s Activate Inclusion Sports Day

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Registration is now open for students aged 5-18 with a sensory, physical or intellectual disability to participate in Sport NSW’s Activate Inclusion Sports Day.

Sport NSW, with the support of Variety – The Children’s Charity NSW, aims to promote the program as a way to encourage youths towards a continued involvement in sport and active recreation throughout their lives.

Event days are taking place throughout Sydney in the suburbs of Blacktown, Camden, Alexandria, Penrith and Cumberland. The event will also be running across the state of NSW in towns such as Dubbo, Tweed Heads, Wagga Wagga, Queanbeyan and Newcastle.

Registered participants will be provided with the opportunity to play a variety of modified mainstream sports in an inclusive and positive space as part of the event, with adaptive equipment available for use as well. Specialised coaching staff will help to run proceedings with the support of students from local community organisations and universities.

Sport NSW Disability Inclusion Manager Murray Elbourn paid tribute to the significance of the event in helping to develop the confidence of its participants in an encouraging and inclusive environment.

“Activity Inclusion Sports Day is really important because it’s a starting point. It’s really the starting of the road for kids to be able to identify that they can play sport in the right environment, that its an encouraged thing and [to] give them skills like increased communication, teamwork and confidence in their everyday life,” he said.

Paralympic Goalballer, Tyan Taylor, attested to the positive implications of such an event in challenging and taking youths out of their comfort zone in a fun, inspiring and enthusiastic way.

“Providing opportunities with days like these Activate Inclusion Days really show not only the teachers, and the families of the students what they’re able to do, but the students themselves really challenge and get out of their comfort zone and gives things a go and really enjoy the day,” she said.

The Activate Inclusion Sports Day circuit begins this Friday, March 12 in Blacktown, Sydney. Registration for Camden’s version of the event close today, March 10. Registrations can be made through Sport NSW’s website.

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Victory unites with Roasting Warehouse in culture-led partnership

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The Melbourne-based anf family-owned business will join the Victory family, uniting two institutions which represent the city’s culture and identity.

A partnership with local roots

As the newest partner of Melbourne Victory, Roasting Warehouse joins forces with a vital part of the city’s sporting landscape.

The club’s Managing Director, Caroline Carnegie, outlined why the partnership bears so much value to both parties.

“We are excited to collaborate with Roasting Warehouse, a community-oriented destination for high-quality coffee, proud of its foundations in Melbourne,” said Carnegie via official media release.

“Football and coffee sit at the epicentre of Melbourne’s culture. The two go hand-in-hand, consistently at the centre of the conversation that stirs Melburnians, which is no different to the conversation sport and Melbourne Victory stir in the State.”

Indeed, this is a partnership which combines the identity, passions and culture of an entire city, therefore giving it the foundations required for long-term, mutual success.

Representing the best of Melbourne

Both Victory and Roasting Warehouse are hugely successful in their respective industries. They are institutions with community-oriented philosphies, who pride themselves on craft and quality.

“We’re incredibly proud to partner with Melbourne Victory, a club that represents the heart, passion, and ambition of Melbourne,” revealed Roasting Warehouse Head of Brand, Alexander Paraskevopoulos.

“As a Melbourne-founded, family-run business, supporting a team that means so much to the local community feels very natural for us.”

Furthermore, through their high-quality blends, Roasting Warehouse will look to prepare Victory’s players and staff for high performances on the pitch as the seasons nears completion.

But this is about far more than just fueling athletes.

This is a partnership which embodies and unites two of Melbourne’s greatest strengths and cultural markers – a connection forged from the city’s very own DNA.

 

For more information about Roasting Warehouse, click here.

Football NSW supports Female Coaches CPD as Women’s Football Surges

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Football NSW has used the platform of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup to deliver a targeted professional development workshop for female coaches, bringing together scholarship recipients for an evening of structured learning and direct engagement with elite women’s football.

Held at ACPE last month, the session was open to female coaches who received C or B Diploma scholarships through Football NSW in 2025. Coaching accreditation carries a financial cost that disproportionately affects women, who are less likely to have their development subsidised by clubs or associations operating in underfunded community football environments. Scholarship access changes that equation at the point where many women exit the pathway.

Facilitated by Football NSW Coach Development Coordinator Bronwyn Kiceec, the workshop focused on goal scoring trends from the tournament’s group stage, with coaches analysing attacking patterns and exploring how those insights could translate into their own environments. The group then attended the quarter-final between South Korea and Uzbekistan at Stadium Australia.

The structure of the evening mattered as much as its content. Female coaches in community football rarely have access to elite competition environments as a professional resource. The gap between the level at which most women coach and the level at which the game is analysed and discussed tends to reinforce itself. Placing scholarship recipients inside a major tournament, as participants rather than spectators, closes that gap in a way that a classroom session cannot.

Female coaches remain significantly underrepresented across all levels of the game in Australia. The pipeline that will change that depends not only on accreditation access but on the professional networks, peer relationships and exposure to elite environments that male coaches have historically taken for granted.

The workshop forms part of Football NSW’s ongoing commitment to developing female coaches through scholarships and structured learning opportunities.

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