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News

Sport and Recreation Awards 2020

17 February 2020 — Winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner in Hamilton on Monday 15 June 2020.

Governance Lite

14 February 2020 — The Governance Lite publication and supporting material is a concise version of the ‘Nine Steps to Effective Governance’ Framework for Sport and Recreation in New Zealand. It has been adapted for small and voluntary organisations and, recognising that the majority of staff are volunteers, aims to help improve governance functions ensuring that members get enjoyment and satisfaction from their efforts.

Guides

Guidance Document for Sports Field Development

Guidance for local authorities, schools and sports clubs to ensure existing sports fields meet service requirements.

Active movement activity guides for children 0-5 years

Brochures providing a variety of fun activities to get little children moving.

Tools and resources

Accounting for Non Accountants

A resource designed for those in the sport sector to help you understand the basics of:

Sport NZ Outcomes Framework

A resource to help our partners (from grassroots to Government) to understand how Sport NZ and the wider play, active recreation and sport system contributes to the wellbeing of all New Zealanders.

Case studies

Club is the Hub Case Study

Encouraging a relationship between South East Asian social cricketers and Auckland cricket clubs

Tamaki Touched Case Study

Working alongside local communities to achieve positive outcomes through sport and recreation

Research

Have Your Say: Sport Integrity Review

Sport NZ sought your input in 2018 to help us understand the sport integrity landscape in New Zealand.

Highlights from our Locally Led evaluation report

Locally Led is one of the three approaches promoted by Sport NZ to create better quality experiences for participants.

Templates and examples

Technology

These templates are to help organisations manage the use of technology . The templates cover general acceptance and use of various technology components which are common to many organisations. These templates should be used as a guideline and customised appropriately to better meet your organisation’s needs.

Board reporting tool x

A template designed to reflect the key information required by boards for the majority of organisations.

ResourceType

McCaw leadership recognised through award

Richie McCaw has been honoured at the 51st Westpac Halberg Awards with the All Blacks captain receiving the Sport New Zealand Leadership Award.

Programmes and projects

Growing Coaches facilitators' programme guide and resources

Information for facilitators about programme delivery, and information about the principles, strategies and philosophies of coaching.

Play, sport and physical activity for young people

Play.sport is a project supporting teachers, schools, parents and community organisations to improve the quality of young people’s experiences of play, physical education, physical activity and sport.

Strategy and policy

National Aquatic Facilities Strategy

The National Facilities Strategy for Aquatic Sports aims to provide a framework for developing future facilities which are appropriately scaled and located to meet the needs of users: locally, regionally, nationally or internationally.

Bowls National Facilities Strategy

Bowls in New Zealand, like many other sports, is in transition. This transition affects the very foundation on which the sport was built, membership.

Presentations

Seb Coe on young people and sport, anti-doping and more (video)

British politician and former champion athlete Lord Sebastian Coe shares his views on inspiring young people to take up sport and the barriers they face, sports integrity issues such as doping, and other subjects.

Ideas into action

Presentation from the Secondary Schools Forum (2009) on the theme that sport and recreation provides explicit learning contexts within secondary school curricula.