COOROY GETS ACTIV!

In keeping with its deeply entrenched community roots, Cooroy RSL & Citizens Memorial Bowls Club has partnered with Cooroy and the surrounding region’s most notable sporting and recreation organisation’s, to form a new initiative called Activ Cooroy. This initiative has been born as a direct consequence of the Queensland State Government’s Local Sport and Recreation Jobs Plan. This program provides key funding to sponsor organisations such as the Cooroy RSL with staff and resources in order to better assist and support community clubs with a range of advice and proactive strategies.  Subsequently this will deliver the key outcomes of greater levels of participation and volunteerism across the community.

Sandy Bolton and Brett Winkler will head the Cooroy RSL Clubs Cluster based out of the Cooroy RSL offices. Both have a wealth of knowledge and experience in local sport and community operations, marketing, governance, sponsorship and business management.

“We are both really looking forward to working with all these clubs”, stated Sandy.

“We felt that it was necessary to create a collective brand such as Activ Cooroy for all of those in the clubs cluster so we could promote it on both a local and a regional basis to attract people to this great region. In a community such as ours it is vital to remember that we are all so closely connected and its imperative that the key benefits of social and economic well-being are maintained and improved wherever possible. And it’s about having some fun as well, something that the people of Cooroy know how to do.”

The clubs that form the cluster are:

• Cooroy Gymnastics
• Cooroy-Eumundi Cricket Club
• Noosa Basketball Association
• Cooroy Bowls Club
• Cooroy Tennis Club
• Cooroy Badminton Club
• Cooroy Horse & Pony Club
• Cooroy Dolphins Swimming Club
• Cooroora United Football Club
• Noosa Pirates Junior Rugby League Club

As part of this cluster group, the Cooroy RSL will be endeavouring to head up a twice-yearly event also called Activ Cooroy. This event will help to not only showcase the hinterland region’s sport, recreation and leisure activities and their commitment to leading a more active lifestyle but also act to drive a key element of the tourism sector that will directly benefit the area’s businesses through increased economic activity from visitors.

“We want to invite not only those from the local region but also those from the greater Sunshine Coast and other outlying regions, that you can come to Cooroy and have a great recreational experience as part of a weekend getaway ”, added Sandy.

“Come and visit a unique, authentic, friendly hinterland community where you can get back to basics and have some fun. You might even decide to move here one day in the knowledge that we have a great lifestyle and a community that is integrated and engaged with an active and healthy approach to life.”

For any further information on the Cooroy RSL Clubs Cluster or the Activ Cooroy Initiative you can contact Sandy Bolton or Brett Winkler at the Cooroy RSL on 54476131