Midnight Basketball AustraliaRegistered

Midnight Basketball Australia is a national organisation that trains and supports approved communities across Australia to run 8week Midnight Basketball Tournaments. Midnight Basketball is a latenight social basketball Tournament, held on Friday/Saturday nights. Communities come together to provide high energy, fun, prosocial, inclusive, healthy, safe, motivating, and free tournaments in local basketball stadiums. Tournament nights start at 7pm with a nutritious dinner, three or more competitive basketball rounds with motivating skills sessions, music, and bus ride safely home and everyone including volunteers in bed by midnight. Tournaments are ongoing, with each tournament running for 8 weeks and are open to all local 1218 year old teenagers. Combining basketball and lifeskills elements, the activity contributes to community and individual capacity building, engages a diverse mix of teenagers, is exciting to run and participate in and sustainable over time.