The State Government’s successful $100 Sports Voucher program will be expanded to include Scouts and Girl Guides for the 2024 calendar year in a move that will help families with cost of living pressures and further recognise the benefits of active recreation.

Children from Reception to Year 9 can receive the subsidy once each year.

Currently the subsidy can be applied to the cost of sport, dance or learning to swim fees.

As many as 3000 Scouts, Girl Guides and their families are expected to benefit from the program in 2024, with funding allocated to accommodate the expanded rollout.

The previous Labor Government established the program in 2015 in an effort to ease the cost of sport on families to help get more kids active and further involved in community.

The 2022 program was the State Government’s most successful to date, with South Australian families saving more than $8.3m.

Sport Vouchers have already saved families $5.4m in the first half of 2023, with 53,886 vouchers redeemed from 891 providers.