LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin is encouraging more local sporting and active recreation organisations to apply for up to $3,000 in funding under the Minns Labor Government’s Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program.
Ms Saffin said Dunoon United Football Club was one of eight recipients from the electorate in the program’s 2024-25 round and had installed an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) at its Balzer Park home ground.
Club President Simon Webster said: “As a rural community football club we believe it’s very important for us to have a defibrillator on site.
“Hopefully we will never need to use it, but it is reassuring to know that it’s there, and that if anything should happen to a player, match official or spectator, we will be able to help,” Mr Webster said.
Ms Saffin said since the popular program started, more than 2,300 potentially life-saving defibrillators had been funded for use at sports and recreation facilities across New South Wales.
Applications for the 2025-26 Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program close 1 December or when funding is exhausted.
For further information, including eligibility criteria, visit: https://www.sport.nsw.gov.au/grants/local-sport-defibrillator-grant-program
Minister for Sport Steve Kamper also announced that the Heartbeat of Football Foundation will use a $150,000 NSW Government grant to map facilities that have AEDs and those which do not, guiding future government investment in this critical equipment.
