Community Support and CDSE
In 2010, 29 different sporting groups were financially assisted by the Club. Promoting ourselves as the 'Home of Sport' in the Macarthur Region, Wests provided $777,950 (an additional $265,786 as compared to 2009) to local sporting Clubs/groups and worthy local non-for-profit organisations. Some of the many Community groups and sporting organisations who benefited from the Community Development Support Expenditure Scheme (CDSE) included: Campbelltown City Council, Kids of Macarthur Health Foundation, Victorian Bushfire Appeal – Red Cross, Parent Council for Deaf Education, Uniting Care Burnside, Macarthur Diversity Services, Claymore Neighbourhood & Youth Centre Inc, The Nagle Family Care & Support Centre, Lifeline Macarthur, St Vincent de Paul Society (Ruse Airds Conference), Macarthur Mental Health Promotion Network, Healthy Kids Foundation and 1st Leumeah Scouts, Dance Magic Academy, Ingleburn Children’s Centre, Claymore Dream Park, Minto Soccer Club, Minto Public School, Ingleburn RSL Cricket Club, SIDS, Hoxton Industries, Ambarvale High School, Secret Garden Music Festival, Campbelltown City Show, Bradbury Pre School, Campbelltown East Public School, Leumeah Public School, St Pauls Public School, NSW Fire Brigade, Thomas Reddell High School, Appin Road Pubic School, John Therry High School, St Patricks College, Community Careflight, Phoenix Netball Club, Ruse Netball Club, St Gregory’s College, Camden Soccer Club, St Patricks Childcare Centre, Hurlstone Agricultural High School, Magdalene Catholic High School, Partner Housing, Campbelltown Dive Centre, Faces N Places Singles Club and Rotary Club of Macarthur.
The Wests Sports Council includes:
Ambarvale Little Athletics, Camden District Junior Cricket Association, Campbelltown Camden District Cricket Club, Campbelltown District Netball Association, Campbelltown & District Softball Association, Campbelltown Ghosts Junior Baseball Club, Campbelltown Touch Association, Dolphins Softball Club, Group 6 Junior Rugby League, Group 6 Referees, Macarthur Baseball League, Macarthur District Soccer Football Association, Macarthur Triathlon Club, Macquarie Fields Swimming Club, Magpies Cricket Club, Southwest Strikers Hockey Club, South West Sydney Academy of Sport, Western Suburbs District Junior Rugby League, Wests Hockey Club, Wests Referees, Wests U13 & U15 Rugby League Cup, Campbelltown Ladies Golf Pennants team and the Campbelltown City U10 Poppa Evans Knockout.
Healthy Kids Foundation
Wests established the Healthy Kids Foundation in 2006 with the aim of financially contributing to assist local children with making better choices. This ranges from supporting High Schools with better lifestyle choices of canteen food to physical sporting activities. In addition the opportunity to encourage children to play weekend sport by assisting with costs such as insurances creates more affordable opportunities to participate in numerous sports. In brief the charter of the foundation:
The Foundation’s objectives, include:
- Providing education directly to children suffering from obesity, including information on dietary issues and healthy lifestyle choices;
- Providing information to schools and canteens to raise local community awareness of obesity in children;
- Engaging in programs and activities to encourage, motivate and enable obese children to lose weight by making healthier food choices and engaging in daily physical activity;
- Encouraging and supporting canteens that promote the availability of a variety of low-fat, high-fibre foods;
- Promoting policies in the local community that provide children with obesity with opportunities to engage in sport and other physical activities, including facilitating participation by means of payment of sports accident insurance and first aid for participants and subsidising costs of participation in a range of sports; and
- Any ancillary activities that are consistent with promoting healthy kids in the Macarthur region.
Wests Leagues are very committed to the cause of the Foundation and in turn supporting the community.
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