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THANK YOU HEADSPACE KNOX

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Boronia Hawks FNC is very privileged to be involved with headspace Knox in the annual Headspace Cup against neighbouring club The Basin. Yesterday’s game resulted in a win for the Hawks, but more importantly it brought into focus the essential role played by headspace throughout Australia. We extend our thanks to headspace Knox for facilitating our participation in spreading their message.

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12–25 year-olds. Based at Westfield Knox Ozone, headspace offers young people a welcoming environment where they can access confidential and free mental health support, health advice, and general information.

Our very own Dylan Dower is also a supporter of headspace Knox through his business Grow Club. headspace receives 100% of all the profits earned by the sale of Dyl’s “go easy” hoodies. These hoodies were presented yesterday to players in the three games against The Basin.

A big thank you goes to Chris from headspace, The Basin Football Netball Club committee and players; and to Dylan Dower.

Club Volunteers Nominated for Gender Equality Awards

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Karen Little and Candyce Wright, both outstanding volunteers for Boronia Hawks, have been nominated as finalists in the Knox Local Champions for Gender Equality Awards 2020/2021.

The award ceremony is on Wednesday 15th December. As the two finalists have been nominated for the work they have done with the Club, we invite other club volunteers, members and supporters to come to the awards ceremony to support them and celebrate their achievements and that of the club. Let’s get behind Karen and Candyce!

Please book by clicking on the following link:

  • Date- Wednesday 15th December 2021
  • Place- Boronia Community Church of Christ, 59 Boronia Rd, Boronia
  • Time- 1:30-3:30pm
  • Try booking- https://www.trybooking.com/BVUUL

Boronia Hawks receive new grant from Knox City Council

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Boronia Hawks’ Community Programs have received a very generous boost from Knox City Council’s fund for Community Development Grants.

The Club successfully applied for a grant to assist with the funding of programs to support our juniors in the important area of mental health.

Program 1 is to be provided for Junior players by our partners at Outside the Locker Room. Two sessions will be conducted with the first covering Mental Health and the second covering Social Media and Cyberbullying.

Program 2 will be provided by St John Ambulance for our Junior Committee and /or coaches and will cover the essential skills and confidence to recognise and support people with a range of mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, suicide and addiction.

Once again the extraordinary skills of Kerryn Westcott in writing a professional grant application have benefitted the Club in funding these two programs. We are very grateful to Kerryn and of course Karen Little, our Director of Community & Inclusion, for their teamwork in developing our Grants Program to support our young players.

Kristan Wood, Junior President, BHFNC