Facility/pavilion maintenance and upgrades
Information for about sports club usage of facilities and pavilions.
Facility/pavilion maintenance
A table outlining maintenance responsibilities of the City and Club are outlined in the Maintenance Schedule of your licence agreement. To discuss your licence or lease on a facility please contact comrec@geelongcity.vic.gov.au
Facility/pavilion alteration
No work of any kind is to be undertaken on City owned buildings without written consent. For any club funded projects or upgrades clubs are required to submit a proposal for works to initiate consultation with the City.
Community Infrastructure Grants
The City provides grants of up to $50 000 to support costs of planning and feasibility activities for future infrastructure projects or grants of up to $350 000 to assist with costs of ready-to-go community infrastructure projects.
Playground inspections and maintenance
We inspect and maintain a network of more than 300 playgrounds and play equipment throughout our municipality.
Sport and Recreation Plans and Studies
There are a number of plans and studies that focus on recreation and sporting spaces and activities.
Bell Park Sports Club in community hands
The City of Greater Geelong has agreed to purchase the land and assets of the Bell Park Sports Club to make sure grassroots sport continues to survive and thrive in Batesford and surrounds.
Bellarine Bears successful in funding pitch
The Bellarine Bears Baseball Club has been awarded a $350 000 grant from the City of Greater Geelong to upgrade facilities at the Wallington Recreation Reserve.
City awards $3 million in community grants
New baseball facilities at Wallington and a Geelong Eastern Park Bowls Club upgrade among 40 dynamic projects sharing in more than $3.1 million through the City of Greater Geelong’s 2021-22 Community Grants programs.
Council puts plan in place at Shell Reserve
Building work on a major new $3.5 million changeroom development at Shell Reserve in Corio will begin next month after the City of Greater Geelong Council awarded local firm Plan Group (Geelong) with the construction contract.