By Sam Brooksby The Naracoorte Golf Club provides a sporting, recreational and social service to local residents and visitors in a beautiful setting. Apart from running golf competitions, the NGC provides a social venue for a variety of local and regional organizations that include visiting golfing groups, intra and inter-regional golf tournaments, LSE Veterans, Legends, Tour Pro Am, Open Day and the Taste Festival. In addition, the Club hosts funeral wakes and supports and hosts numerous charities (RFDS, Red Cross, Legacy, Variety, Stand Like Stone and Hospital Auxiliary) in their money-raising activities. The NGC Committee has resolved to upgrade its clubhouse with a wheelchair access ramp as part of a larger, longer-term modernization project. Wheelchair access is the most important and pressing requirement, essential for the club to achieve a modern, acceptable standard. The timeframe for works on the wheelchair access ramp is yet to be determined but it is […]

By Natalie Banning, KSNC President We are a competitive netball side in the KNTNA. Our netball club prides ourselves on being an inclusive and friendly club. We are so grateful for The News Gives Back program for their donation, this is so greatly appreciated. This donation will be going towards our major court and clubroom upgrade that we hope will happen over the coming years. Upgrading our facilities is a huge financial demand and we are currently fundraising and researching grants to help generate the funds needed to reach this goal. Upgrading our tired and dated courts in particular is a necessity for our members, players and spectators. We appreciate this donation so much and hope to use this money in the near future for facility upgrades.  Editor’s Note: With this Give Back donation of $500 we have reached $95,059 donated to local service, arts and sports groups. Please register […]

By Anne Freeman Naracoorte and District Hockey Assoc would like to thank The News Give Back Program for their kind donation. NDHA is made up of 5 clubs – 3x Naracoorte base clubs, Kingston/Lucindale and Tatiara. We have U/9, U/13, U/16, Women and Men teams. This money will go towards funding to up grade our toilets/changeroom. In recent years we have been very lucky to build a brand-new Turf and brand-new clubrooms. With the possibility for future tournaments, we need to modernise our facilities and with this money, every little bit helps. For further information please either look us up on Facebook or email admin@naracoortehockey.com.au. Editor’s Note: With this Give Back donation of $500 we have reached $95,559 donated to local service, arts and sports groups. Please register anytime by emailing news@naracoortenews.com.

By Jo Vine The Naracoorte Mothers Groups were set up with the aim of connecting local Mum’s who missed out on having their very own mothers group during the last 3-4 COVID years, when such groups were cancelled. We have had over 70 registrants and will run 6 groups in total. So many people stay connected throughout life with other parents and children they’ve met through their mothers groups and with all the isolation which occurred during COVID, we wanted to make sure everyone had the chance to have their own Mothers Group, even if their children were no longer babies. The response to the groups has been overwhelming and many stories have been shared and new connections made with such fun along the way. The Groups have been supported by both the SACWA who have allowed us to use their rooms and provided volunteers, as well as the Naracoorte […]