RECREATION

Strategic Plan for Community Recreation
A document entitled Developing Community Recreation Strategy   was developed with extensive consultation and engagement with the recreation industry over 2007-2008. The strategy is intended to be very much a working document. As such, feedback is welcome at any time. Please email Kirsten Malpas with your thoughts.



Recreation Programming 101 Workshops

In partnership with the YMCA, NZRA regional branches and Skills Active, 1-day workshops were held throughout March in 4 centres.

Presentations from Workshops

Recreation Programming 101 Christchurch Workshop

Recreation Programming 101 Auckland Workshop

Recreation Programming 101 Wanganui Workshop

Recreation Programming 101 Tauranga Workshop

Articles/ Links Referred to in Workshops

Ten trends shaping the future of our communities As we transition from a burgeoning economy to one that's rapidly deflating, people are realizing that placemaking offers the ideal approach to improving our cities and neighborhoods in these hard times. Placemaking puts people first.

Sport England Sport Action Zones - the key to transforming community participation

Living places is about helping to create thriving, vibrant communities through culture and sport.

Teen Board H2O Xtream This pool has formed a Teen Board which actively engages with teens in developing marketing, programmes and events for the pool to reach its target market of 10-14 year olds.

Big Ears  allows you to instantly create and run telephone based surveys or interviews.

Survey Monkey  is a quick, easy and very cost effective (even free!) way to run on-line surveys.

Value of Sport Monitor by Sport England. The benefits sport brings to individuals and communities may be obvious to many. In the competition for scarce resources, however, sport must face up to the challenge of justifying in more tangible ways why public money should be invested in it.

The Social Work of Sport and Exercise  Empowering people, facilitating community development, and contributing to sustainable development.

ACE Priorities and Guidelines. Adult and Community Education policies from the NZ Tertiary Education Commission. Check these out to see if your programmes can qualify for TEC funding.

Non-Users of Recreation Centres A report done for Auckland City Council which looks at opportunities to increase facility usage by currently under-represented groups.

Field of dreams aims to positively impact the lives of young people in Manukau by providing them with opportunities to live healthy, active lifestyles and pursue a positive pathway through sport and physical recreation. 
 
Manukau Leisure Services  See what this team is doing in across of range of facilities and programmes.

Diabetes Trust Project ‘Get Wise”  emphasises partnership with the community to achieve better health for present and for future generations. " and is led by a Trust Board from a range of backgrounds.

HEHA  Health Eating, Healthy Action project by the Ministry of Health. This site includes recreation projects aimed at getting more people more active.

NZSSC  The NZ Secondary Schools Sports Council website includes the latest data from the 2008 school sport census which shows a slow decline in participation levles across sports that the council monitors.

Never 2 Old  Developed by staff within the AUT School of Sport & Recreation this multimodal programme specifically targets the health and fitness of older adult men and women.

Irish mini-marathon  Waterford Institute of Technology investigated whether participating in the Mini-Marathon makes women more active and what strategies can be used to support them staying active. The research study investigated the physical activity behaviour of over 11,000 women who participated in the 2007 event, a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of high profile events on long term engagement with sport.

National health survey  The Ministry repeats the New Zealand Health Survey at regular intervals to monitor people’s health, measure access to health services and to help develop health policies, programmes and services that better meet the needs of New Zealanders.

Facility management manual  developed by NZRA for use by recreation facility managers. Relevant chapters for recreation programmers include programme and event planning, monitoring and evaluation, and communication and promotion. 

Skills Active: recreation in NZ context, community recreation project and project planning.


Community Recreation Advisory Group
An advisory group was established to provide industry leadership on behalf of the community recreation sector, identifying and advising on:

• sector issues, needs and barriers
• resourcing required to address the issues, needs and barriers
• future strategic direction

The group meets on a quarterly basis.