Footy for Climate Locker Room

In June we headed down to the Footy for Climate Locker Room at the Parliament of Victoria. 

Across three days the Footy for Climate team walked MPs through the locker room, featuring FFC’s journey, stories of local clubs impacted by extreme weather, and passionate players like Izzy Huntington and Nicola Barr. FFC asked every MP to support three tactics:

1. More renewable energy for local clubs. 
2. Play your role and support grassroots footy and their communities. 
3. Go to the footy! Show up for your local team and community.

Local sport is especially vulnerable to a changing climate, as we’re already seeing. Since the 2020 bushfires, the AFL has supported 535 footy clubs affected by climate-fuelled extreme weather. 

But it wasn’t all serious talk! We got to test out our handball skills (it would be remiss of us not to mention that our very own CEO, Emma, was a gun at this) and the chance to win a signed Sherrin with the closest guess at how many local footy players pulled on the boots every weekend across Victoria. 

In a cocktail event on the second day, the AFL premiership cups came to visit along with AFL CEO Andrew Dillon, who spoke about the AFL’s commitment to assisting grassroots clubs and their own sustainability plan. It was a great evening and we loved to see so many players, MPs and supporters turn out for FFC.

Get the full walk-through of the exhibit from Footy for Climate co-founder, Tom Campbell here.