{"id":9287,"date":"2020-05-22T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:20:53","slug":"tennis-tasmania-welcomes-tasmanian-government-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2020\/05\/22\/tennis-tasmania-welcomes-tasmanian-government-support","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Tasmania welcomes Tasmanian Government support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Tasmania has congratulated the Tasmanian Government for its continuing support of the sports community following the release of the first tranche of funding to support sports organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Tasmania was a successful applicant of the COVID-19 Sport and Recreation Grants Program and will receive $150,000 as part of tranche 1 of the funding model.<\/p>\n<p>Funding provided through tranche 1 of the COVID-19 Sport and Recreation Grants program is specifically to assist with salary costs for six months for employees across sporting organisations that are undertaking sport-related duties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister for Sport and Recreation<\/strong>,<strong> Jane Howlett<\/strong>, was on court at the Domain Tennis Centre in Hobart as the club was among a number of Tasmanian clubs to re-open this week in a gradual manner under the first stage of the return to play plan announced last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister joined local junior players Alejandro Fisher and Alicia Dale for a hit on Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2020\/05\/Return-To-Play-Matrix-Tasmania-v04-1.pdf\"><strong>Return to Play Matrix<\/strong><\/a>, which aligns with the three stages the State Government&#8217;s Roadmap to Recovery, provides an overview to the guidelines that recommend a safe return to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018I am delighted to see our $2 million sport and recreation assistance package supporting important organisations, such as Tennis Tasmania, through these challenging times,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am pleased that Tennis players around the State are now able to return to play under the guidelines put in place by our Government, and I thank clubs for the measures they are taking to ensure a COVID-safe environment.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the grant will allow Tennis Tasmania to support 17 jobs, with <strong>General Manager Darren Sturgess<\/strong> welcoming the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re grateful for the support the Minister and the Tasmanian Government has shown to Tennis Tasmania and a number of other sporting organisations in the state,\u201d Tennis Tasmania GM Darren Sturgess said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis funding will allow us to get back from our current reduced work capacity and provide further service to our clubs and stakeholders as tennis in Tasmania resumes in a COVID-safe manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current tennis offerings of Stage 1 of the return to play plan include community and social play, along with some coaching.<\/p>\n<p>For all Tasmanian venue status updates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2020\/05\/Venue-Status-Tasmania-for-Stage-1-from-18-May-v1-1.pdf\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Tasmania a successful applicant of the COVID-19 Sport and Recreation Grants Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6260,"featured_media":9288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}