State funding to turn on the lights for Narrogin Hawks Football Club

Narrogin Hawks Football Club players will train under brand new lights thanks to a $60,000 State Government grant. The club received the funding to go towards upgrading light towers at Clayton Road Oval in the latest round of the Club Night Lights Small Grants Program. CNLP is designed to increase physical activity and participation through good quality, well-designed, and well-utilised facilities. Hawks president Dani Rowe said the club couldn’t host night games last year due to the dire lighting situation. “We’ve just received word we got approved and we’re stoked, we really badly needed new lights,” she said. “The globes in the lights we’ve got now are non-replaceable and as they were blowing it was getting darker and darker. “The new lighting will help mainly for training but we always try to do a couple of night games and weren’t able to do that last season, night games bring a great atmosphere.” Ms Rowe said the club’s future was looking bright on the back of winning two junior premierships last year and hoped the lighting would be installed in time for next season. There are now plans to upgrade club facilities, including female change rooms. Sport and Recreation Minister David Templeman said facilities with suitable amenities encouraged more people to be involved in sports, leading to healthier and more connected communities. “Supporting WA clubs to install quality lighting means the community can play longer into the night and field more teams,” he said. “This gets more people active, brings more members to clubs, and offers more options to play sport.” The program provides financial assistance to help develop sustainable floodlighting infrastructure for sports across WA. The next rounds of CNLP open on February 1 next year.