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Westlake Girls buy first brick digging deep How hard can it be to raise $350K for the largest sport on the North Shore which adds huge value to the wider community? Much harder than I thought! AMI Netball North Harbour hosts thousands and thousands of players and their supporters through our gates on a weekly basis. Saturday alone will see an influx of approximately 10,000 players on our courts throughout the course of the day. As an organization that has not sought public assistance in more than 25 years - the initial response to our campaign hasn’t been at the level we had anticipated and required. We thought it would have been a lot easier! Special thanks to Dean Flyger, Sports Director at Westlake Girls High School for his initiative, they are the very first school to purchase a brick on behalf of their netball teams who play here at AMI Netball North Harbour every week. Westlake Girls High School has issued a challenge to other secondary schools to equal or better their purchase of a $1,000 brick. Westlake Girls have more than 40 teams
Your contribution will be formally recognised and etched into a brick at the new complex for eternity. and over 400 young women who play netball for their school. They have won the College Premier grade here at Harbour for the past three years. Almost every primary, intermediate and secondary school on the North Shore plays their netball at this centre. During winter play we have 91 schools and 584 teams participating in our netball competition. If each of these Schools was to purchase a brick at $1000 each we would be much closer to reaching our goal of 300 bricks!!! Thanks to three pubs on the North Shore - The Jolly Punter in Belmont, the Brownzy Sports Bar in Browns Bay and the Albany Tavern in Albany - a significant grant has been received by Pub Charity for $200K. This is a major contribution towards us reaching our goal and I would like to acknowledge these pubs for their generosity in supporting us. Whilst the Pub Charity grant is considerable we still have a long way to go to reach our target. Without your support it is going to be extremely difficult to complete this project. Remember - Your contribution will be formally recognised and etched into a brick at the new complex for eternity. Thank you for your support. Adele Lendich - CEO, AMI Netball North Harbour CEO, AMI Netball North Harbour
Westlake Girls High School showed how proud they are to support the development of the proposed indoor netball centre at the AMI Netball Centre by being the first school to purchase a $1000 brick to aid the fundraising efforts. Netball is the largest sport at Westlake Girls with 400 students making up 44 teams this year that compete in their respective North Harbour competitions at Onewa. Westlake is the current North Harbour Premier Collegiate champions, a title they have achieved for the past three years. The school aims to follow Netball North Harbour with four covered netball courts as part of the major sports building programme which is commencing shortly at Westlake Girls. Sports Director at Westlake Girls Dean Flyger states that the Onewa indoor facility will provide students with the opportunity of playing netball
in a unique environment while also providing the region with a valuable sporting asset. Photo: Gloria Kelly (Westlake Girls Netball Coordinator), Samon Nathan (Westlake Girls Premier Netball Captain), Dean Flyger (Westlake Girls Sports Director), present Adele Lendich of Netball North Harbour with $1000 for the brick. The aim is to sell 300 bricks to raise $300,000 which will complete the funding required for the new AMI Netball Centre covered courts.
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