Video: A woman in a black shirt standing on a Pickleball court appears on screen. A title card appears with the name Dr Engela Van Der Klashorst, Plus Sports Victoria, Co-Director
The camera cuts to a group lesson showing a coach teaching a number of people how to play Pickelball.
Audio: With Plus Sport Victoria, it is about community development, Plus Sport, it is about making changes in community, working on mental health, working on connection, plus sport.
Video: A woman appears on screen walking acros the Pickleball court holding a red pickelball bat and a yellow ball,
Audio: And So what we do is we use the power of sport and we tap into that.
Video: The camera then cuts to 3 individuals who are talking and laughing. The camera zooms out to show an additional 2 people who are engaged in the discussion.
The camera then cuts back to the Pickleball court where we can see Dr Engela Van Der Klashorst talking to two other women whilst they’re holding Pickleball racquets and ball and playing a game with two people on the other side of the court.
Audio: And so we have programmes that run in in a variety of communities and we quite often have community members as our facilitators.
Video: A woman is shown playing pickleball and returning a serve to her opposition. She then laughs after hitting the ball.
The camera then cuts to show a woman serving the pickleball with her teammate standing in the background waiting with a pickleball racquet.
Another woman is shown serving the pickleball.
Audio: Responses from our participants in the Australia Post funded programme come and play.
Video: The camera then shows a group of 8 people playing soccer on an indoor basketball court.
Audio: It's Wednesday has been enormously positive.
Video: The soccer ball is briefly shown in frame with a man in a green jumper dribbling but a defender kicks the ball out of play.
Audio: It is about mental health and well being as well.
Video: The camera cuts to a wider shot of the entire program showing both the games of pickleball in the foreground and the game of soccer in the background. A man serves the pickleball to the other team, a woman on the other team returns the shot and wins the point.
Audio: It is about community connection and it is about doing that through sport.
Audio: People come, they play.
Audio: At first they don't know each other and then we see groups, different groups, and they start to get to know each other.
Video: The camera cuts back to the game of soccer where we can see 4 players all smiling and laughing, with an additional 2 men on the sidelines watching the game happen. Two of the men on the court embrace one of another with a hug
Audio: They create relationships and literally it's just a fun, fun activity.
Video: The camera then cuts back to Dr Engela Van Der Klashorst who is given an interview on the program. There is a game of pickleball occuring in the background.
Audio: One of the needs that we identified in this programme was the need for a focus on mental health and well being.
Video: The camera cuts to show 5 people sitting in chairs waiting to play the next game of pickleball. They are talking and laughing whilst they wait. In the foreground we can see two people playing pickleball.
Audio: And so because we're working in the refugee and migrant space, we realised that that's actually a pretty good idea to maybe think about adding workshops to this programme.
Video: A montage of images appears. The first image is a group workshop in a classroom where members of the program are grouped onto tables. The next image is of a woman with an image of a car and a yellow road sign in the background whilst she is presenting to the workshop. The third image is of a man with an interested expression, he is young and wearing a grey shirt. The fourth image is of two people sitting at a table, one is a man in a blue hooded jumper and another is a woman with a black cap and a brown shirt on. The fifth image is of a man standing above a woman angling a woven basket filled with potato chips, the woman is in front selecting which packet of potato chips she would like.
Audio: We've had already had one of the workshops.
Video: Another image appears on screen of two men who are engaged in the workshop. One is wearing a white shirt and the other in a grey hooded jumper with headphone sitting on his neck. Another image appears of three men, the man on the left is in a green T shirt, the man in the middle is wearing a green hooded jumper with a big smile and the man on the right is in a white hooded jumper is also smiling. These three men are in the workshop listing to the content.
An image of a woman in a pink jumper appears on screen, she is pointing to someone off screen.
Another image of a different woman appears on screen, she is wearing a blue knitted jumper and a blue puffer jacket. She is seated leaning over a table and is smiling.
Two more women appear on screen, one is in a blakc and white shirt with black pants and appears to be assisting the younger woman. We see one of the woman is the same person as the one in the black hat from earlier.
We then see two more additional images of the workshop, one is a woman in focus looking at the facilitator of the workshop, the second image is a group shot containing 11 people who are focused on the workshop.
An image appears of the initial woman who was presenting at the workshop with the same car and yellow street sign in the background of the shot.
Audio: It was about 90 minutes, not too long, but a great introduction where people started to work on the different aspects of well being and identifying what they can change.
Video: The camera then cuts back to Dr Engela Van Der Klashorst who is given a direct interview to the camera again.
Audio: Receiving this grant really made a difference for Plus Sport Victoria.
Video: The camera cuts back to the earlier soccer from earlier and we see a man dribbling the ball with a defender trying to take it off him. The defender wins the ball and passes it to a teammate. The teammate dribbles the ball backwards and passes to their goal keeper.
Audio: It was a validation for the work that we did and that we do that we're currently doing.
Video: We cut back to the same group of people waiting on the side of the pickleball game from earlier. The camera slowly zooms in on the group and we see them talking to Dr Engela Van Der Klashorst bent over.
Audio: But I want to really talk about the difference it made for our communities.
Audio: We have seen changes that we didn't foresee when we applied for the grant.
Video: The group gathers around the pickleball net and we see one of them holding an Australia Post community grants poster with the words “Plus Sport Victoria”.
Audio: We've seen students getting involved with supporting others, supporting people that are not in the university and it's just been an incredible opportunity.
