Sport Northland

New Sports House – a Sports House is a regional facility that allows sporting organisations to be based together in order to share resources and work together to improve their effectiveness and efficiencies. This new Sports House complex at Kensington Park will accommodate for the first time 15 regional sports bodies and it will make an important contribution to building Northland’s community sports networks.

$150,000

Sport Auckland (lead), Harbour Sport, Counties Manakau Sport, Sport Waitakere

Sports Organisation Capability Assessment and Development Project - the four Auckland-based RSTs are working together to develop an “Organisation Development Tool” and a strategy to improve the administration and operational systems of regional sports organisations.

$340,000

Sport Auckland

New Sports House - the demolition of parts of Eden Park for the Rugby World Cup has lost Auckland its Sports House. Therefore, a new one is being constructed at Alexandra Park to house 10 regional sporting organisations.

$100,000

Harbour Sport

New IT Centre - a new regional IT-based sport development centre is being created to allow coaches and sports managers to access information on international best practice as part of their professional development.

$50,000

Counties Manakau Sport

Club Revitalisation programme - this project is a strand of Manukau City’s “Fields of Dreams” project. It will help a number of clubs improve their operational practices and recruitment of volunteers.

$50,000

Sport Waitakere

Club improvement programme - Waitakere sports clubs are at a disadvantage as they are at a considerable distance from regional sports entities that could support them. In this region the administrative burden falls on the clubs themselves. This funding is aimed at strengthening clubs’ capability.

$40,000

Sport Waikato

New Sports House - This funding contributes to construction of a new $3.7 million Sports House on WinTEC campus. The Sport House is strategically sited on the Polytechnic campus as this will allow synergies to develop between the WinTEC’s sports and recreation courses and the regional sporting organisations. Twelve regional sporting organisations will be housed in the new facility.

$200,000

Sport Wanganui (lead) Sport Hawke’s Bay, Sport Taranaki

Fundamental Competency Development - recent research has shown that the majority of New Zealand children are unable to meet all the 12 tests of fundamental physical competence. This project is a pilot to increase the capability and capacity of gym clubs to deliver fundamental skills to children aged between three and 10 years. This will be achieved by assessing clubs against a national gym accreditation standard and bringing those clubs that have not reach the standard up to the accredited level.

$240,000

Sport Gisborne - Tairawhiti

New Coaching Director - Gisborne is one of the last regions in New Zealand to receive any Coach Force support. The region needs more coaches and an upgrading of existing coaching skills. There is a significant need to employ a Coaching Director to improve the region’s coaching capability.

$45,000

Sport Hawke’s Bay

Capability interventions with two rugby clubs – two of Hawke’s Bay’s rugby clubs operate in areas of significant socio-economic disadvantage. The project aims to strengthen the two Clubs and generate more volunteers, so they become a community hub to raise morale in the community, build community networks and provide a healthy outlet for young people.

$40,000

Sport Bay of Plenty

Fit-out of three Sports Houses - This funding will help Sport Bay of Plenty establish three regional Sports Houses in Tauranga, Rotorua and Whakatane. The region is unusual in that it has three clearly defined communities. These local Sports Houses aim to bring regional support closer to these communities and improve their sport community integration.

$100,000

Sport Wellington

Volunteers for Sport Resource Kit - this project aims to tackle the nationwide decline in the time that sports volunteers are able to give. Sport Wellington plans to develop and test an easy-to-use tool kit of resources to help sports organisations recruit appropriate volunteers, improve the volunteer experience and support the long-term sustainability of volunteers. The project will be trialed with Waka Ama’s regional sport organisation and the clubs within that region.

$70,000

Sport Wellington

Eastbourne Communityville – this project aims to create an entity that will bring together over 20 sport, recreation and social service clubs in Eastbourne to ensure that this community is providing a participant focused, co-ordinated, integrated approach to sport and recreation facilities and participation.

$50,000

Sport Manawatu

New Sports House - t he current Manawatu Sports House is too small and it therefore excludes a number of sporting organisations and creates difficulties for the current tenants. Investment is needed into a new, larger facility within Arena Manawatu. This will increase the numbers of regional sport organisations housed, make operations easier for existing tenants and enhance the networking between organisations.

$150,000

Sport Canterbury – West Coast

New Sports-Specific Clubmark Tools - develop new Clubmark tools which are specifically tailored to the needs of each sport, such as gymnastics and tennis, to better help them grow their operational capability, provide improved services to existing members and grow their membership.

New E-Publication – to promote sport and recreation, and in particular Sport Canterbury services, to Canterbury stakeholders. This publication will be sent every two to three weeks to an estimated 10,000 people. It is a low cost, and very effective way for the Sports Trusts to engage with their constituency, increase service inquiries, and better support their clients.

$100,000

Sport Tasman

Three Sportville Projects - Three umbrella entities will be created for Picton, Westport and Upper Moutere. These entities will bring together the local sports organisations and provide expert skills to manage issues such as financial management, administration and governance. This will allow sporting organisations to concentrate on their sports, strengthen local sporting networks and create synergies between local sports organisations.

$50,000

Sport Otago

Leaning to Swim Project - There is a pressing need to substantially improve the quantity of swimming teaching resources for Dunedin children, and to reduce the cost of learning to swim for parents which at present has been a significant barrier to getting more children swimming. This is a three-year initiative, between Dunedin City Council, Sport Otago and Surf Life Saving Otago, to provide every 10-12 year old with the opportunity to learn to swim.

$200,000

Sport Southland

New Coaching Director - Southland is one of the last regions in New Zealand to receive any Coach Force support. The region needs more coaches and an upgrading of existing coaching skills. There is a significant need to employ a Coaching Director to improve the region’s coaching capability.

$45,000