Macquarie Sports
Since 1999, Macquarie Sports has provided sporting opportunities to more than 100,000 children across Australia. Macquarie Sports also offers corporate scholarships to elite young sports people to pursue both their career and sporting goals.
Objectives
At Macquarie Sports, we believe that children can be motivated and inspired by interacting with athletic role models. Every year we provide thousands of children in communities throughout Australia with that opportunity, as well as a chance to play sport using brand new equipment. We also aim to provide an experience that can promote team work and leadership skills, whilst educating children about fitness and health.
Educate
Macquarie Sports aims to benefit children across communities through high quality sporting clinics. In 2015, Macquarie Sports held 22 community events around Australia, reaching close to 5,000 children.
Partner
Macquarie Sports partners with grassroots sporting organisations to enhance their capacity and to remove financial barriers for children in disadvantaged communities. Macquarie Sports does not accept unsolicited proposals and requests.
Support
Macquarie Sports helps convey Macquarie's commitment to the local communities in which it operates. We believe companies have a role to play in developing healthy communities.
Tiwi Project
Since 2010, Macquarie Sports has travelled to the remote Indigenous communities of the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory in Australia to support the annual Tiwi Ashes cricket match and to deliver sporting clinics for local Tiwi Island children.
The Macquarie Group Foundation also supports the Hayden Reynolds Tiwi Project
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Macquarie Group
Located north of Darwin, the Tiwi Islands has been supported by the Hayden Reynolds Tiwi Project since 2010. Macquarie is a principal funder of the project, which has raised more than $A2 million for education and training facilities. Macquarie Sports has also hosted sporting clinics on the islands, providing equipment, coaching and sporting role models to help inspire and motivate local youth.
2015 Tiwi Ashes
The Tiwi Ashes is a permanent fixture on the Macquarie Sports calendar.
In August 2015, former Australian cricket greats Matthew Hayden and Andy Bichel, along with former Australian Wallabies Matthew Burke and Phil Waugh, Australian netball legend Liz Ellis and Australian athletics Olympian Kyle Vander Kuyp, led various sports competitions to determine which Tiwi Islands students would take part in the annual 20-over 2015 Tiwi Ashes cricket match.
The Hayden XI team retained the Ashes following a dominant display of cricket, played in front of more than 1,000 Tiwi Islanders who had gathered at Tiwi College to take part in the day’s festivities.
The Tiwi Ashes event is a part of a broader initiative to raise funds for Tiwi College, a secondary boarding school managed by the Tiwi Education Board.
The Macquarie Group Foundation has contributed over $A2 million to date, which has been used to develop an agricultural enrichment program. This program aims to provide the students with farming, agricultural and hospitality skills, work placement opportunities for recent Tiwi College graduates and supply of fruit and vegetables to local families.
Scholarships
Quite often, training and study commitments of elite young athletes leaves little time for them to gain work experience. The Macquarie Sports Scholarships program provide recipients with paid work experience within Macquarie, as well as networks and resources necessary to enable a smooth transition from the sporting arena to the workplace. As well as financial support, the scholarships provide training, mentoring and ongoing casual employment with Macquarie Sports. To date, 50 young men and women have been awarded scholarships, with many going on to achieve high sporting honours, including:
- Lavinia Chrystal (skiing, Australia – Sochi Olympics)
- Dave Dennis (rugby union, Wallabies)
- Rob Horne (rugby union, Wallabies)
- Holly Lincoln-Smith (water polo, Australia – London Olympics)
- Kristina Mah (karate, world champion)
- Ben McCalman (rugby union, Wallabies)
- Susan Pratley (netball, Australian Diamonds)
- Paddy Ryan (rugby union, Wallabies)
- Servet Uzunlar (football, Matildas).
Annual reports
Our annual reports highlight the key financial, volunteering and pro bono support Macquarie Sports and Macquarie Group staff contribute around the world each year.
Sports clinics
Macquarie Sports utilises sporting clinics to engage with children in communities around Australia. Delivering clinics across five sports in 2015, these free clinics provide a fun and inclusive environment for children to interact with their sporting heroes.
