To celebrate Pride Month, we spoke to women’s player Serena ‘Reenie’ Franke about her football journey as someone part of the LGBT+ community. Pride month is celebrated in June across the globe. It can mean many different things to different people, and for Reenie it is about celebrating the LGBT+ community and paving a welcomingContinue reading “Pride Month: Meet Serena Francke”
Category Archives: awareness days
Men’s Health Week
Today marks the start of Men’s Health Week.With so many men part of our Club, it is an important opportunity to highlight the health challenges faced by males and promote the wellbeing of men and boys in our SMFNC community.This year’s theme is Building Healthy Environments for Men and Boys, encouraging us all to focusContinue reading “Men’s Health Week”
Message from the President: Let’s make a play for road safety
Hi everyone,SMFNC support TAC’s vision of no deaths or serious injuries on our roads, and that’s why we are asking everyone to actively participate in our TAC Club Rewards road safety campaign this year.Everyone plays a role in road safety; we can only move toward a future where every journey is safe if we allContinue reading “Message from the President: Let’s make a play for road safety”
National Reconciliation Week: Actions for Change
Today marks the end of Reconciliation Week for 2022, so we want to share with everyone 22 actions to make change every day of the year from Reconciliation Australia.We know that everyone can’t put into play all these actions, especially all at one time, however here are a few simple ways you can start:
17 players join the Push for Better challenge to support mental health!
The Push-Up challenge has officially kicked off today and we have an incredible 17 players signed up to raise awareness for mental health!Each day, the players will do a different amount of push-ups based on a mental health statistic. The first one is 74 push ups to represent the 74% of pet owners that reportedContinue reading “17 players join the Push for Better challenge to support mental health!”
National Reconciliation Week: Meet Judhil Canendo
To mark Reconciliation Week, we spoke with Senior Women’s player Judhil ‘Juddie’ Canendo about her football journey as a proud Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander woman. Originally from Yarrabah in Cairns, QLD, Judhil is part of the Kuku Djungan, Kaurareg and Yidinji (Wallabarra) tribe. In 2019 she made the big move to Melbourne, and afterContinue reading “National Reconciliation Week: Meet Judhil Canendo”
National Reconciliation Week
Today marks the start of National Reconciliation Week, a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and learn how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. Reconciliation week always starts on May 27 to mark the anniversary of the 1967 referendum when Australians voted to removeContinue reading “National Reconciliation Week”
SMFNC participates in TAC Club Rewards again in 2022!
TAC Club Rewards has now opened again, allowing all footy clubs an opportunity to receive up to $10k in funding to grow and improve their club by promoting road safety. Last year, we were fortunate enough to be awarded $10,000 in funding through this program, and this year we hope to do it again! ClubContinue reading “SMFNC participates in TAC Club Rewards again in 2022!”
SMFNC joins Push for Better push-up challenge
Once again, some of our St Mary’s players are doing the Push For Better push up challenge to raise awareness and much-needed funds for mental health. It’s completely free to join the challenge and 6 players are already signed up: Jack Dean, Raygan Tate, Liam Fyffe, Lockie Potter, Myles Guldon, and Nick Gedge. The playersContinue reading “SMFNC joins Push for Better push-up challenge”
Waving our appreciation for volunteers
That’s a wrap on National Volunteer Week!Take a look at our players waving their appreciation for all our SMFNC volunteers 😃👋Volunteers are the backbone of our Club, so we again want to extend a huge thank you to all our volunteers!
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