The Carlton Football Club will be in Bendigo tomorrow and Friday as part of the 2013 Australia Post AFL Community Camps.
All senior-listed players will spend two days participating in a range of community activities including hospital, aged care and primary school visits.
On top of this, the players will hold a NAB AFL Auskick Superclinic for local schoolchildren.
Carlton midfielder Bryce Gibbs said the Australia Post AFL Community Camp was an important program to help expand the Club’s presence within regional Victoria.
“The Community Camp is something we look forward to every year because it gives us the chance to be involved with local communities,” Gibbs said.
“We don’t often have the opportunity to meet our supporters in the regional areas, so the camp is an important way for us to further promote our Club as well as the AFL.
“For the supporters, it’s not often that they get to interact so closely with the Club on a personal basis, so I’m sure they will be looking forward to it as much as us."
The Australia Post AFL Community Camp is part of a national program that will see all AFL Clubs visit communities across Australia, giving locals the opportunity to get close to the AFL at the highest level.
Carlton Community Camp Itinerary
Thursday February 7
12pm - Civic reception, Bendigo Civic Gardens, Lyttleton Terrace
1pm - 4pm - School and community visits:
St Mary's PS Inglewood
East Loddon P-12
Strathfieldsaye PS
Lockwood South PS
Eppalock PS
Raywood PS
Australia Post Store Bendigo
Bendigo Health
City of Greater Bendigo Planned Action Group
Girton Grammar
Bendigo Senior SC
4pm - 6:30pm - Auskick Clinic, QEO, View St
7pm - Local dinner event, All Seasons, McIvor Highway Bendigo
Friday February 8
9am - 11am - Indigenous Group
Camp Hill PS
Cruose College
Quarry Hill PS
Epsom PS
St Liborious PS
St Monicas PS
St Peters PS
Scope
Carshalton House Aged Care
Friday February 8
12pm - 1:30pm
Business Luncheon, featuring Carlton CEO, Greg Swann
All Seasons, McIvor Highway Bendigo
1pm - 3pm
School and community visits:
Spring Gully PS
Lightning Reef PS
Eaglehawk SC
Weeroona College
St Thereses PS
St John of God Hospital
Horizan House (St John of God)
City of Greater Bendigo Planned Action Group
Kalinna School
Maiden Gully PS
Reclink Visit
