St Francis Sport will proceed this year with their campaign to promote the greater St Francis as the prefered sporting destination.  This drive is to the benefit of all local businesses.  St Francis Sport also works towards improving all sporting facilities and through main events put money back into the community. Our main projects for 2012 are: The building of a safe run/cycle track along St Francis Drive from the Marina Village...

St Francis Sport realised the need for effective marketing of all events, whether it is a sporting event, a fundraiser for a charity organisation, some activity important for our tourists such as penguin releases or whales spotted in the Bay. The town as outgrown the blackboard on the corner of St Francis Drive and Lyme Road South, and has obtained permission from the Kouga Municipality to replace this sign board with an electronic board...

St Francis Sport has earmarked a few routes suitable for mountian biking, hiking and running through the nature reserves and along the coast line.  St Francis Sport has worked together with FOSTER (Friends of the Nature Reserves) as well as the Department of Environmental Affairs to establish the best routes with the least impact on the environment, especially where mountainbiking is involved. Some areas are in desperate need of...

St Francis Sport earmarked the building of a run/walk path along St Francis Drive as one of two projects for 2011. St Francis Drive is the only road linking the canals with the business centre and carries heavy traffic.  There is no alternative for runners, cyclists, mothers with babies in push prams and little children on bicycles as well as those in wheel chairs. It is also the road used for the cycling and running legs of organised...

St Francis Sport played a vital role to include the upgrading of the existing life savers hut at the St Francis Bay main beach in the Department of Environmental Affairs’ Coastal Care Program (which is supported by the Kouga Municipality).  Public ablution facilities will be reinstated and once this has been completed, will assist the community to comply with the minimum requirements of a Blue Flag Status beach. The criteria includes...

A group of experienced rock climbers expressed the need of a training wall where they can train novice climbers before taking them to explore the beauty of the Baviaanskloof and other mountain ranges close to St Francis Bay.   The St Francis Bay Squash Club hosts the highest wall in the Village, and has agreed that a shell concrete training wall can be implemented onto the existing wall.  The cost of the wall will be R60 000, excluding...