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Richmond Football Club and Aligned Leisure’s Tiger PAW program has won a major award at the Australian Sport, Recreation and Play Innovation Awards held this week at the Pullman Albert Park. The successful Tiger PAW (Physical Activity and Wellbeing) program took out the prestigious Programs, Activities and Events Award. The program educates primary school aged children in four modules, which are developed dependant on the needs of the local community. The 2017 program was rolled out in Cardinia Shire and […]

The VFL Tigers will be on the hunt for their fourth consecutive victory when they take on Casey in Beaconsfield on Saturday 8 July. Playing their second game for the year at their home-away-from-home, the VFL Tigers will be keen to improve on their previous visit to Holm Park Recreation Reserve, a narrow five-point loss to Werribee in Round 7. The VFL Tigers are in a rich vein of form, having defeated Geelong, Northern Blues and Essendon in their past […]

Highly regarded leisure industry expert Liam O’Brien has been appointed as Nillumbik Leisure Manager. O’Brien will join the Aligned Leisure team in June as they finalise the transition for management of the Eltham Leisure Centre. Aligned Leisure General Manager – Operations, Shane Dunne, will continue in his role of transition manager until early August when he will officially hand over operational management to O’Brien. Throughout his career, O’Brien has managed a number of community leisure facilities including the iconic Brunswick […]

Cardinia Life’s Jake Ward has been recognised as Aligned Leisure’s inaugural Bunjil Award winner. The Bunjil Award is the Richmond Football Club and now Aligned Leisure peer-nominated award that recognises individuals who best role model the values. Bunjil is an Indigenous story about the land surrounding Punt Road Oval. Bunjil and his warriors are strong and powerful symbols of each of the Aligned Leisure values and their story also honours our commitment to community. 2017 marks the 4th year of […]

Aligned Leisure has successfully tendered for the management rights of the Eltham Leisure Centre in Nillumbik Shire. The Eltham Leisure Centre, located approximately 25 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, is currently undergoing a major aquatic redevelopment. Aligned Leisure will commence management of the facility on July 1st. Aligned Leisure Managing Director Cain Liddle said it was a privilege to manage a facility long regarded as one of Melbourne’s premier recreation facilities. “This is a well-established facility that is undergoing a major […]

Aligned Leisure have partnered with Culture Amp, the world’s most powerful employee feedback and analytics platform, to research our recent staff acquisition in the Shire of Cardinia. As part of the management transition, Aligned Leisure employed almost 150 staff, who had previously been employed by the outgoing management group. As the General Manager of People, Culture & Performance, Dr. Amanda Green ensured that people were a focus during the transition. “The people who joined us were already intimately connected with […]