Sports new home ground advantage at Toorak Park

With grassroots sports booming in inner city suburbs, the new facilities at Toorak Park provide local clubs including Old Xaverians Football Club, Prahran Football Club, and Prahran Cricket Club a modern venue to grow their sports and memberships.

Works at the Park have delivered a larger, reshaped sports oval with new drainage, irrigation, turf and cricket wickets that significantly enhances the playing field’s quality, capacity and performance.

The oval upgrades come complete with new low spill, energy efficient LED lighting producing 500 to 750 lux across the field to meet AFL and cricket professional training and competition standard.

These upgrades are a game changer for over 1,400 members of the local cricket and football clubs, including more than 350 women and girls, that depend on the venue and provides more space for grassroots sports to grow and stage the big events.

The oval also features a new grandstand pavilion with player and umpire change rooms with amenities that are suitable for women and girls, a timekeepers’ room, first-aid room, social and function rooms, storage facilities, along with a kitchen and kiosk.

And it’s not just local sport that will benefit; the new facilities are also available for a range of community activities from casual play to school sport to community events and gatherings.

The Victorian Government invested $3 million into the project with the Stonnington City Council kicking in $13.4 million, Prahran Football Club almost $150,000, Old Xaverians almost $125,000, AFL Victoria $100,000, Cricket Victoria $30,000 and Prahran Cricket Club almost $30,000 – an all-round team effort.

From precinct developments to pavilion upgrades, investments like these provide high-quality and accessible places for Victorians to reap the benefits of sport and active recreation participation.

They are all about creating jobs, stimulating local economies, and improving the health, wellbeing, and social outcomes for Victorian communities.

The recent release of the Community Sports Infrastructure 2024 Outcomes Statement – a Sport and Recreation Victoria report, also highlights the positive impacts of government-funded projects like these.

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