Yanchep's success with Grant Scheme

Bowls WA’s Participation Grants scheme pioneered last year is continuing to pay dividends for clubs that took advantage of the $40,000 in grants that were on offer. Many clubs have come back to Bowls WA with glowing reports on how their initiatives have succeeded and brought more, new, people into their club.

Yanchep is perhaps the greatest success story. Yanchep was the one club that was awarded the maximum $5,000 available under the scheme, supporting its plan to purchase two bowls modified wheelchairs and encourage ALL of the local community to come and try bowls.

Initially, the club held a series of sessions which were very well attended and discovered some hidden gems in the community – perhaps however the most recent person who found their club might be the biggest success.

Habib, a local Yanchep resident saw the promotion of Yanchep’s program through a City of Wanneroo publication and decided to give it a go.

Habib is a paraplegic and hadn’t found a sport he could play – he has now! Not only has he joined the social bowls opportunities, but he also plays poker at the club and has started a chess club on Wednesday afternoons.

To quote Jodie Nikolic, Club President “Another life changed due to your grant”. Well done Yanchep!