{"id":15979,"date":"2019-12-09T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=15979"},"modified":"2019-12-09T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T22:04:02","slug":"sheroes-program-successful-for-grant-funding-from-nsw-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2019\/12\/09\/sheroes-program-successful-for-grant-funding-from-nsw-government","title":{"rendered":"SHEroes program successful for grant funding from NSW Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennis NSW program <strong>SHEroes<\/strong> has been successful for funding from the NSW Government to help increase female volunteering roles in tennis at all levels and promote leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis NSW has teamed up with legendary coach <strong>Judy Murray<\/strong> who provides exclusive tips, tricks and drills to the SHEroes ambassadors on how to develop the participation base and volunteer workforce in their local communities. The SHEroes Ambassadors meet several times a year to share ideas, gain insights from industry leaders on relevant topics and engage socially with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Minister for <strong>Sport Geoff<\/strong> Lee announced $635,000 in grants for 23 sporting organisations as part of the NSW Government\u2019s \u2018Her Sport Her Way\u2019 program. \u201cWe are rewarding organisations which are innovating with programs to break down participation barriers, promote role models and foster inclusivity,\u201d Mr Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Women <strong>Bronnie Taylor<\/strong> said \u2018Her Sport Her Way\u2019 is breaking new ground. \u201cPowerful change in attitudes and awareness will ensure women and girls are valued, recognised and given equal choices and opportunities to perform,\u201d Ms Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>Former mixed doubles grand slam champion and Tennis NSW Women and Girls lead <strong>Casey Dellacqua<\/strong> said women\u2019s sport needs to welcome everyone. \u201cSport is such a powerful tool for change in society and if \u2018Her Sport Her Way\u2019 can continue to help break down perceptions and barriers surrounding participation and inclusivity for women, then we are onto a winning formula,\u201d said Ms Dellacqua.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis has been successful alongside 22 other sporting programs for the \u2018Her Sport Her Way\u2019 funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennis NSW program SHEroes has been successful for funding from the NSW Government to help increase female volunteering roles in tennis at all levels and promote leadership. Tennis NSW has teamed up with legendary coach Judy Murray who provides exclusive tips, tricks and drills to the SHEroes ambassadors on how to develop the participation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6180,"featured_media":15980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}