What is the Dragons Foundation? /

The Dragons Foundation was established in partnership with the Australian Sports Foundation to ensure an ongoing commitment of St George Illawarra Dragons, now and into the future.

We continue to make take strides in new and exciting projects, with the support shown via this very foundation. St George Illawarra Dragons community mission is to have a positive impact on people's lives within our community.

This philanthropic arm gives our loyal members, fans and supporters a chance to directly contribute to the club and play a significant role in the club's success.

The foundation sets out to make the St George Illawarra Dragons the benchmark sporting club in Australia in the areas of community engagement and elite development.

Dragons Community programs

• Support programs that encourage people, especially youth, to make positive choices around health and wellbeing, education and other social issues
• Promote rugby league as a means of delivering health benefits and promoting positive social interaction
• Use our profile and the strength of our brand to empower in making positive change
• Utilising the profile and the strength of the Dragons brand to assist selected local charities and association.

Elite development

• The elite junior pathways project provides a pathway to promote the development of both male and female junior teams to participate in Rugby League state programs. The program will engage junior players from the age of 13 to 18 to assist with the development of welfare and skills education, and opportunities to compete in Rugby League initiatives.
• The high performance program has been established and designed to assist with promoting junior player welfare and wellbeing, through the development and tracking of injury and performance, specialist analytics review and monitoring of performance and recovery outcomes.
• Located within the communities of Kogarah and Wollongong, the Dragons develop and monitor more than 150 male and female athletes at all times, across all levels of the sport. The use of performance equipment plays an integral role in supporting the performance and welfare of players and requires constant improvement and updating with advances in sport science and technology. This program is essential in assisting performance staff to ensure that the players retain peak performance levels within all competitions