Active Kids program will be doubled as two separate $100 vouchers will be available for each child to encourage them to be more involved in sport across the year. 

From July 2019, families will be able to receive two vouchers to play sport from January to December. 

“The program has been hugely popular with more than 1 million vouchers issued since launching,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian said. 

“This is all about making sports more accessible for more children across the State and by making it affordable for parents, we are doing our part to help make kids active and health,” Ms Berejiklian added. 

The second Active Kids voucher in 2019 will be available from 1 July to 31 December. 

The new set budget is to encourage kids to be involved in two separate sports throughout the whole year such as netball in winter and swimming in summer. 

“We are doing everything we can through our strong financial management to ease the cost of living burdens on families,” Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said. “Because of the strength of the NSW Budget we are able to allocate more funding because we want more kids to be happy and healthy.” 

The $100 vouchers can be used by every school age children to cover for the costs of sports registration, membership expenses and fess for physical activities such as swimming, football, netball, dance and athletics. 

“If your child plays cricket in the summer and football in winter, you can choose to use a $100 voucher to pay for cricket registration fees and then use the second $100 voucher to help offset the costs for the football season,” Minister for Sport Stuart Ayres said. 

Lois Lee / edit@hanhodaily.com