Reflecting & Respecting Our Community

DLGSC’s Inclusive Participation Grant targets low participation groups and encourages sporting bodies to:

• Provide inclusive participation opportunities for people from low participation groups to engage in sport and/or recreation activities
• Build the capacity of skills and knowledge of the sport and recreation workforce to develop and implement inclusive environments, operations and/or participation opportunities
• Develop partnerships between sport and active recreation organisations and community service providers to develop and implement inclusive environments, operations and/or participation opportunities. Bowls WA’s ‘Reflecting and Respecting Our Community’ project will extend over three years (and beyond) and will consist of two streams, initially targeted to the Metropolitan area and South West WA:
• Seniors: Through the provision of quality coaching programs, Bowls WA will assist clubs to engage with local Retirement and Lifestyle Villages, some with bowling facilities of their own, to introduce more Seniors to the sport of bowls.
• LGBTQIA+ Community: Through the initial provision of quality education and information forums, Bowls WA along with industry partners will build the capacity within our clubs to cater for a more diverse membership base. Both streams reflect Bowls WA’s Strategic goal of ‘Connecting more people through bowls in more ways, more often’, and with the vision ‘For all Western Australians to connect with bowls during their lifetime’.