Canberra's smaller sporting bodies have the opportunity to find a home and get professional training courtesy of a one-year, $65,000 grant from the ACT Government.
Yesterday ACTSPORT announced ''four or five'' sports would be housed at ACT Sports House, in Hackett, and get help in developing their volunteer-based organisations.
ACTSPORT spokesperson Mark Cartwright was excited about setting up the Small Sport Business Hub Project.
''Typically they will be organisations that do not have staff and rely on voluntary support, and are currently not accommodated anywhere - so essentially run at the kitchen table of someone's home or out of the back shed,'' he said.
''One component of the project is to physically house them at ACT House and just as importantly we'll be providing them with a customised education-and-training program for each of them.
''So they'll attend training sessions and establish mentoring relationships with established, professional sports administrators in the ACT ... and be able to network with a number of other organisations and hopefully learn a little bit more about how they can best manage their organisations.''
The decision on which sports will benefit is expected to be made in a month. Cartwright was hopeful it would have a flow-on effect of encouraging more people to become more active.
''And the by-product will also be that those that are currently active in each of those sports will hopefully see some further development in the administration of those sports and be more likely to stay around,'' Cartwright said.
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