The small rural rugby club of Maramarua will get a massive boost thanks to winning one of 15 nationwide prizes of $10,000 courtesy of Bunnings Warehouse.
Boasting one senior team, in the Championship grade, and six junior teams, Maramarua is the stereotypical rural club, relying on hard-working volunteers to stay in existence.
They put an entry into the Bunnings Rugby Assist competition, which sees 15 clubs around New Zealand receive $10,000 to go towards a project.
Maramarua have this week been told they are one of the winners.
“It is a huge benefit to our club,” club president Warren Adams told Counties Sports Hub.
“Our facilities were pretty run down and so to be able to do them up and make them usable again is fantastic.”
Maramarua’s application was based around doing up their kitchen, which was so out-dated and run down that they couldn’t actually cook meals in it. Food had to be made offsite and brought to the club.
The club had begun fundraising to update the kitchen, but this win will obviously make that a lot more achievable.
“We will rip the old kitchen out, paint it, put in new lino, new cabinetry and, if funds allow, we will put in a new oven,” Adams said.
Work is likely to take place once the season ends and the upgrades will be completed by the start of the 2022 season.
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