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Food Safety

• Information on food safety (Sports Community)
• Information on food safety and allergies
• Food safety and handling

You can find more information on operating a food business in Manningham on councils website.

• Council's website

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Sport Australia - Training for coaches

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Information and resources to help your club prepare a COVIDSafe plan.

• Coronovirus Victoria website
  • Creating a COVIDSafe Plan
  • Free COVIDSafe Plan review service
  • COVIDSafe Plan
  • Free infection control training
  • COVIDSafe Plan in languages other than English
  • COVIDSafe Plan Template for Small Business
  • Frequently asked questions

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Having an emergency and evacuation plan are one of the most important plans your club can have. Once you've created your plan, they must be communicated and clearly displayed so that in the case of an emergency, the procedures are clear and easy to follow. Don't wait until a serious incident occurs to establish your plan. Do it at the beginning, do it now.

Club Help provides some great advice and resources on creating an emergency and evacuation plan for your club.

• Club Help - Emergency Plans

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Council’s Recreation Capital Works Funding Program provides funding towards sporting facility infrastructure developments. The Program aims to increase participation opportunities in organised sport and active recreation, whilst also providing a transparent and equitable process towards the development of Council’s sporting facilities.

What type of projects can I apply for?

The program aims to provide funding for a range of projects, including but not limited to:

• Pavilion upgrades
• Sports field floodlighting
• Tennis court upgrades
• Synthetic surfaces
• Cricket nets
• Coaches boxes
• Bin cages
• Storage buildings
• Sports field fencing
• Spectator shelters.

To apply for non-sport related infrastructure such as traffic bollards and car parks, please use the contact us online form.

How to apply

1. Visit https://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/recreation-capital-works-program-application(External link)

2. Read Council’s Outdoor Sports Infrastructure Policy

3. Contact Council to discuss your project

4. Gather the required information

5. Submit your application via the online application form

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Good Sports

Good Sports is a free Australia-wide program building stronger community sporting clubs. The program provides sport and recreation clubs with tools and resources to build a safe, welcoming, family friendly club environment. Good Sports has been proven to reduce harm and positively influence health behaviours, as well as strengthen club membership and boost participation. The Good Sports program is implemented voluntarily through community sporting clubs, helping clubs to promote healthier, safer and more family-friendly environments. Designed for busy sports clubs, Good Sports takes the guess work out of complying with legal requirements and gives you the upper hand when it comes to attracting funding, new members and volunteers. It has been helping build strong community sporting clubs across Australia for over 20 years.

Other helpful resources

• Safer drinking at sports clubs
• Top tips for responsible clubs
• Play by the Rules Alcohol Management template
• VICSPORT - responsible use of alcohol
• Liquor License information - Sports Community
• Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation
  • Liquor fact sheets and information on liquor licensing

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The resources listed below will help your club better understand what social media is, how to keep your members safe online and why your club should have a social media policy.

viaSport British Columbia have information on the Who, What, Why and How of creating a social media policy. Additionally, information is provided on what the different types of social media are and how to use these platforms successfully.

• Creating a social media policy for your sport club
• Social media tool kit

Play by the Rules has provided a FREE downloaded Social Media Policy template. There is also an accompanying document and video guide to this template giving you some context and background to social media policy.

• Play by the Rules - Social Media Policy

Sport Australia have created social media principles and best practice guidelines. Strategies which can be tailored to each organisation.

• Sport Australia - Social media principles and best practice guidelines

If you have more questions about creating a social media policy, we would recommend you get in touch with your state sport organisation.

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Love the Game

In 2014, the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation launched the Love the Game Sporting Club Program in response to community concern about the convergence of sport and gambling. The program helps reduce young people’s exposure to sport betting advertising and raises awareness of the risks of gambling harm for young people growing up in this normalised environment.

Through the program, the Foundation works with more than 500 Victorian community, and elite, sporting clubs and bodies to raise awareness of gambling harm and counter the normalisation of gambling in sport. Participating clubs agree to a Charter that confirms their commitment to refusing sponsorship from sports betting operators and reducing the exposure of young people to gambling promotions and activities related to the club

• Find out more / Join Love the Game
• Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation

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Athletes, officials, coaches and spectators often spend prolonged periods of time outdoors participating. Too much exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation can lead to sun damage, sunburn and skin cancer. And the more you’re exposed, the greater your risk. Sports groups should encourage use of the five forms of sun protection (Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide) to help protect those involved all year round.

Sun Smart have created sample sun protection policies for sport clubs and community groups.

• SunSmart website
• Vicsport sun smart resources

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Vicsport aims to promote good policy and practice to protect the health and safety of participants, officials, coaches, parents, volunteers, staff, sports trainers and spectators, whilst supporting continued participation in sport and active recreation. Hot weather resources have been developed in partnership with Sport and Recreation Victoria the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention. The resources can support organisations to mitigate the risks of exertional heat illness during hot weather. The resources are relevant for state sport associations, regional sports assemblies, local governments, clubs, leagues and associations.

• Access hot weather resources

Sport Medicine Australia have created hot weather guidelines for sporting clubs, associations and the physically active.

For more information and advice on recognising, managing and mitigating heat health risks in sport and recreation visit Sport and Recreation Victoria's heat guidelines.