{"id":27275,"date":"2022-01-09T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T23:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=27275"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T05:54:40","slug":"opportunity-knocks-program-australian-tennis-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2022\/01\/09\/opportunity-knocks-program-australian-tennis-foundation","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity Knocks Program &#8211; Australian Tennis Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Tennis Foundation is pleased to launch the first round of the <strong>Opportunity Knocks\u2019 Program,<\/strong> a tennis subsidy program aimed at providing financial support for young people aged 5-17 who may not have the means to continue their tennis journey.<\/p>\n<p>Funding of <strong>up to $400 <\/strong>per person per year for<strong> coaching fees and an additional $100 <\/strong>per person per year<strong> for club membership and\/or competition fees <\/strong>is available.<\/p>\n<p>Please share the attached guidelines with your field staff to pass on to coaches and\/or schools participating in tennis programs to target eligible families.<\/p>\n<p>There are a limited number of subsidies available per round, with two rounds planned for the year &#8211; one for Semester 1 (terms 1 &amp; 2) and one for Semester 2 (terms 3&amp;4).\u00a0 Budgets will be split between bushfire and non-bushfire affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Applications can be made online via this link: \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftennis.smartygrants.com.au%2FATFOK2022SEM1&amp;data=04%7C01%7Csean.okane%40tennis.com.au%7Cd48cb2c98c3d44d70f2808d9cf190378%7C61aa9c8da7734a7c84701dd8062e404a%7C0%7C0%7C637768528604270637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=7FJscybuA0LcDeOYe5Q4wB4tOSQlbbcuYWFZiANg1eQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/tennis.smartygrants.com.au\/ATFOK2022SEM1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This program responds to the need to support young people with financial barriers and the Australian Tennis Foundation\u2019s mission of inspiring brighter futures for young people through tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/doc\/opportunity-knocks-australian-tennis-foundation\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Tennis Foundation is pleased to launch the first round of the Opportunity Knocks\u2019 Program, a tennis subsidy program aimed at providing financial support for young people aged 5-17 who may not have the means to continue their tennis journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6293,"featured_media":23765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}