The professionals at PKF have been getting out their scarves and clappers to cheer on the accounting and consulting agency’s quite a few sporting sector sponsorships throughout the nation.
Regardless of their tastes – be it spherical or oval ball or contested on land or within the water – there’s just about one thing for all PKF workers to get behind, with rugby league, Aussie guidelines, soccer, horse-racing and water polo all that includes amongst simply a number of the agency’s sporting sponsorships.
The most recent renewed and new sports activities partnerships comply with the agency’s backing of Lauren Parker, who lately created historical past in France by changing into the primary Aussie athlete to assert gold in two totally different disciplines on the Paralympics since 1976, slaying in each the biking and triathlon.
Water Polo
PKF’s Sydney & Newcastle department has lately revealed the most recent spherical {of professional} growth scholarship recipients within the third yr of its affiliation with Water Polo Australia, with Paris Olympics silver medallist Bronte Halligan and twin Olympian George Ford sharing in a $10,000 funding pool along with junior squad members Harper Stewart and Georgia Chapman.
“Balancing the calls for of elite sport with private {and professional} development is not any small feat,” mentioned former Shark and PKF enterprise advisory director Nicholas Falzon, who has spearheaded the agency’s water polo sponsorship program. “These athletes symbolize one of the best of what the water polo group stands for; dedication, management, and a drive to reach all aspects of life.”
Rugby League
The partnership between PKF’s native workplace and the Newcastle nationwide rugby league membership has additionally entered its third yr, and whereas not going significantly nicely on the sphere thus far after the Knights squeezed into the eight final yr, PKF Sydney and Newcastle managing director Bob Bell was eager to focus on some the advantages of the association forward of the of the 2025 season.
“Our collaboration with the Newcastle Knights has been a supply of immense delight for our agency,” Bell mentioned. “Over the previous two years, we’ve witnessed the staff’s resilience and dedication, which mirror our personal values at PKF. We’re excited to proceed this journey collectively, fostering development and success inside our group.”
Soccer
Maybe probably the most sports-mad of PKF’s sixteen Australia-wide places of work, the Newcastle staff has additionally thrown its help behind the round-ball sport, lately extending its sponsorship of younger Jets A-League gamers Justin Vidic and Milan Hammond, the latter who’s an area product and member of the Matildas’ subsequent technology program for the nation’s prime future prospects.
Aussie Guidelines
Throughout the nation, PKF’s Perth workplace – beforehand a long-time supporter of Netball WA and the West Coast Fever – has signed a contemporary partnership settlement with the WAFL’s Claremont footy membership, which will likely be hoping to go no less than one step additional in 2025 following the Tigers’ devastating final minute one-point exit from final yr’s semis.
“We’re delighted to be on board as an official companion of the Claremont Soccer Membership,” mentioned native enterprise advisory and taxation companion Stashu Poliwka. “We’re wanting ahead to cheering on the Tigers all through the season. The membership is well-known for having a optimistic influence on the group, and we’re proud to help them.”
Horse-racing
PKF’s Perth workplace additionally lately raised near $10,000 in a charity public sale in help of the native youngsters’s hospital as a part of its sponsorship of “Italian Race Day” at Ascot, which irrespective of your stance on the game nonetheless appears like a number of enjoyable. Lengthy-term WA companion Anthony Russo Battagliolo had the honour of presenting the trophy to the winner of the ‘Roma Cup’ title race.
