Women Leaders in Sport

Each workshop may comprise of women from 2 to 3 successful organisation applicants. During the workshop, participants will develop their individual leadership skills and engage in group activities to advance the sport.

A successful organisation can send a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 women to the workshop. Participants can be from the same office, from different state/territories, e.g. a representative(s) from each state, or from various areas in the sport. Sport Australia will arrange and pay for required travel and accommodation for the women attending the workshop.

* Please note exact locations will be determined once successful organisations advise Sport Australia of the residential addresses of the workshop participants

All workshop participants will be offered:

• Attendance at one of the 2020 WLIS Organisation Leadership Workshops;
• Lunch and catering during the workshop;
• Group dinner on the one of the evenings; and
• Travel and accommodation assistance for participants who reside a significant distance from the workshop venue.

To be eligible to apply to send a selected group of women across your sport/organisation to a WLIS Organisation Leadership Workshop, an organisation must:

• be a national sporting organisation recognised and funded by Sport Australia; and
• have no outstanding acquittal and/or reporting requirements (for previous WLIS grant recipients).

For a list of the organisations recognised and funded by Sport Australia please go to the Australian Sports Directory and select Funded as the funding status.

To be eligible to apply for the WLIS Organisation Development Grants, an organisation must:

• Be, or be affiliated with, a national sporting organisation recognised by Sport Australia.
• apply for support for a project on women leadership development;
• commence the project in 2020; and
• have no outstanding acquittal and/or reporting requirements (for previous WLIS grant recipients).

Eligible expenditure items

The organisation grant funding can only be used towards the following items:

• Course fees
• Presenter fees
• Long distance travel (>200km) for presenters and participants, e.g. Airfares, coach/bus/train tickets, car hire or petrol reimbursement
• Translator or interpreter costs

Ineligible expenditure items

Some examples of ineligible expenditure items are:

• Venue hire
• Catering
• Accommodation
• Administration costs
• Materials and resource costs

Organisation grant recipients’ responsibilities

Organisation grant recipients are required to:

• accept the grant agreement and abide by the terms and conditions of the agreement; and
• complete an acquittal (including receipts) and report using the templates provided by Sport Australia and return it to Sport Australia within 30 days of the completion of the supported project.