The club has launched its major raffle for a second year, as it looks to secure a cash reserve to use as a base for funding applications.
Plans include adding a second change room facility, eventually upgrading the old change rooms to house the home team, while the new facility caters to the visitors.
The club is also looking to tear down and rebuild the existing social rooms.
Rochester has already engaged Brandrick Architects in Echuca to design the project, which is expected to cost about $5 million.
Club committee member Braydon Aitken said the improvements followed on from a series of previous and ongoing upgrades over the last few years.
“Recently, the club’s invested money in new lights and a new scoreboard,” he said.
“We've also invested in netball court upgrades, and we're adding an all-abilities toilet to our existing social rooms
“We're doing what we can in the short term, but these major fundraisers are really about securing that funding for new change room facilities and new social rooms.
“It'll be a community building, so the benefit really will be for the whole of the community.”
The raffle features two major prizes with a Toyota LandCrusier Prado VX, from Echuca Toyota, valued at almost $100,000, the big-ticket item, with second prize a $25,000 holiday package from Ashley Campbell, TravelManagers Australia, plus $5000 in cash and gift cards from the club.
Tickets are $200 each and are capped at 1500.
Mr Aitken said the fundraising effort was important to make the upgrades a reality.
“We ran the raffle last year, that was the first stage, and we need to keep raising as much money as we can so that when this project is shovel ready we can apply for the relevant funding,” he said.
The raffle will be drawn on August 15 following the Tigers’ final home game of the year, with entries closing at 11pm the previous night, or when sold out.
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