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The Advertiser
08-08-2025
- Business
- The Advertiser
Warragul Dusties show how it's done
Youth investment made possible with Toyota. Warragul Dusties show how it's done By Jen Walker Updated August 8 2025 - 3:59pm, first published 3:30pm In partnership with Toyota. Warragul Industrials Football Netball Club is making the most of fundraising opportunities at its fingertips, proving itself not only a leader on the field but off. At the halfway point of fundraising during the season, the club had raised more than $40,000 through the Toyota Good For Footy raffle and are leading the table by some distance. Nicknamed the 'Dusties', the Gippsland club was formed in 1948 and won the premiership in its first year. Today, the club fields two senior and two junior male football teams, two senior and four junior female teams, and four mixed mini junior football sides. According to President Daniel Hilton, this wide range of teams is partly due to the Toyota Good for Footy Raffle. This is the club's third year participating, after raising more than $50,000 in the past two years. "We've probably already spent what we're going to make from the raffle this year. We never had a junior football club - under eights, 10s, twelves and fourteens - and we've added two extra female football teams - the 14s and 16s. So the proceeds will be going towards setting up those teams." Having a younger contingent coming up through the ranks is not only great for the club, but also presents new opportunities for the community, especially when combined with the growing opportunities in female football. The success of the raffle lies in the creative incentives offered by the club and its sponsors to buy tickets. There are occasional discounts at the canteen or the bar if you buy a ticket, and Daniel said there are posters with the QR code everywhere. "Our major sponsor is Warragul Toyota - through your car service, you might get a ticket. Our other major sponsor is the Club Hotel, who have also helped sell tickets for us. This works well because it means we don't have to ask them for as much money from these sponsors. "Then on game day, we'll have a couple of kids walk around the crowd with the QR codes on the flyer, selling tickets. The younger the kids are, the more we seem to sell. The best ones are the under 11 netballs." However, the benefits for the club from the raffle are not only financial. Daniel said Good for Footy has brought clubs together from all over Australia. "We just hosted the Kingsley Junior Football Club from Perth. They're high up on the ticket sales ladder as well, and their u16s came over on a school holiday trip. They trained with us and had dinner - it was just great because we wouldn't have had anything to do with this other club except through the raffle." The Toyota Good for Footy raffle offers a chance to win one of 47 prizes, including three new cars, from a prize pool worth nearly $300,000. Tickets are $5 and your ticket price goes to the AFL club of your choice. The aim is to make fundraising easy for clubs, as Toyota provides all the prizes, clubs get 100% of the proceeds, and there are no sign-up or registration fees. In 2024, Toyota Good for Footy Raffle raised $1,242,865 for 912 footy clubs across the country. This article has been produced in partnership with Toyota
The Advertiser
04-07-2025
- Sport
- The Advertiser
Hot water services, chalk, boots: footy greats celebrate 'spirit' of local sports clubs
If it's bucketing down with rain and too nippy outside for the house moggy, you'll still find the heart of local communities beating strong. Volunteers all around Australia make their way to local junior footy clubs in rain, hail or shine to chalk up pitches, roll out the BBQ and clean kids' sports boots. It's some of those volunteers who paved the way from Diamond Creek junior footy club in north-east Melbourne to the AFL Grand Final at the MCG for Collingwood champion Heath Shaw. It comes as Shaw is recognised for an iconic moment at the 2010 Grand Final replay between Collingwood and St Kilda that enthralled fans. His dogged smother of a footy off St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt's boot that day has been immortalised in Toyota's 'Legendary Moments' ahead of the Good for Footy Round on July 4. Football great and media personality Brian Taylor credited the gritty smother to Shaw's skill and acknowledged grassroots volunteers who help kids all around Australia achieve their dreams. "This Good for Footy Round we celebrate all things footy, and those volunteers and the coaches and all the people that actually do things when it's absolutely pouring with rain at the junior footy club at 9am and it's 5 degrees," Taylor said. Taylor said Toyota's grassroots involvement had contributed funds for hot water services, boots and facility repairs for local clubs. Toyota has raised more than $21 million with the Good for Footy and Good for Cricket programs since 2008. Shaw, a 325 gamer, also paid tribute to local footy. "My local club was Diamond Creek and I played from under 9s all the way through so you've got the opportunity to play AFL and it starts at the grass roots. "The AFL is number one in [grassroots footy] and there's nothing they won't do to help develop young players and give everyone a chance to just kick a footy." Shaw said he would always be remembered for the smother. "To see this moment take centre stage, and for it to be selected by Toyota to inspire the next generation is really special. "I wouldn't be here without my junior footy club. I really do appreciate them and what Toyota does to contribute to community clubs across the country is incredible. That's what footy is all about," Shaw said. If it's bucketing down with rain and too nippy outside for the house moggy, you'll still find the heart of local communities beating strong. Volunteers all around Australia make their way to local junior footy clubs in rain, hail or shine to chalk up pitches, roll out the BBQ and clean kids' sports boots. It's some of those volunteers who paved the way from Diamond Creek junior footy club in north-east Melbourne to the AFL Grand Final at the MCG for Collingwood champion Heath Shaw. It comes as Shaw is recognised for an iconic moment at the 2010 Grand Final replay between Collingwood and St Kilda that enthralled fans. His dogged smother of a footy off St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt's boot that day has been immortalised in Toyota's 'Legendary Moments' ahead of the Good for Footy Round on July 4. Football great and media personality Brian Taylor credited the gritty smother to Shaw's skill and acknowledged grassroots volunteers who help kids all around Australia achieve their dreams. "This Good for Footy Round we celebrate all things footy, and those volunteers and the coaches and all the people that actually do things when it's absolutely pouring with rain at the junior footy club at 9am and it's 5 degrees," Taylor said. Taylor said Toyota's grassroots involvement had contributed funds for hot water services, boots and facility repairs for local clubs. Toyota has raised more than $21 million with the Good for Footy and Good for Cricket programs since 2008. Shaw, a 325 gamer, also paid tribute to local footy. "My local club was Diamond Creek and I played from under 9s all the way through so you've got the opportunity to play AFL and it starts at the grass roots. "The AFL is number one in [grassroots footy] and there's nothing they won't do to help develop young players and give everyone a chance to just kick a footy." Shaw said he would always be remembered for the smother. "To see this moment take centre stage, and for it to be selected by Toyota to inspire the next generation is really special. "I wouldn't be here without my junior footy club. I really do appreciate them and what Toyota does to contribute to community clubs across the country is incredible. That's what footy is all about," Shaw said. If it's bucketing down with rain and too nippy outside for the house moggy, you'll still find the heart of local communities beating strong. Volunteers all around Australia make their way to local junior footy clubs in rain, hail or shine to chalk up pitches, roll out the BBQ and clean kids' sports boots. It's some of those volunteers who paved the way from Diamond Creek junior footy club in north-east Melbourne to the AFL Grand Final at the MCG for Collingwood champion Heath Shaw. It comes as Shaw is recognised for an iconic moment at the 2010 Grand Final replay between Collingwood and St Kilda that enthralled fans. His dogged smother of a footy off St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt's boot that day has been immortalised in Toyota's 'Legendary Moments' ahead of the Good for Footy Round on July 4. Football great and media personality Brian Taylor credited the gritty smother to Shaw's skill and acknowledged grassroots volunteers who help kids all around Australia achieve their dreams. "This Good for Footy Round we celebrate all things footy, and those volunteers and the coaches and all the people that actually do things when it's absolutely pouring with rain at the junior footy club at 9am and it's 5 degrees," Taylor said. Taylor said Toyota's grassroots involvement had contributed funds for hot water services, boots and facility repairs for local clubs. Toyota has raised more than $21 million with the Good for Footy and Good for Cricket programs since 2008. Shaw, a 325 gamer, also paid tribute to local footy. "My local club was Diamond Creek and I played from under 9s all the way through so you've got the opportunity to play AFL and it starts at the grass roots. "The AFL is number one in [grassroots footy] and there's nothing they won't do to help develop young players and give everyone a chance to just kick a footy." Shaw said he would always be remembered for the smother. "To see this moment take centre stage, and for it to be selected by Toyota to inspire the next generation is really special. "I wouldn't be here without my junior footy club. I really do appreciate them and what Toyota does to contribute to community clubs across the country is incredible. That's what footy is all about," Shaw said.
