Aktive Annual Report 2015/16

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across Auckland have been offered double-digit investment
increases that can be spent on delivering more services to
targeted “Communities of Interest” as part of the Auckland
Approachto Community Sport.
This paints a clear picture of growth and development,
but in an environment where resources are constrained,
Aktive’s Board has been mindful of the need for the
organisation to maintain its focus. In the 2015/16 year,
it commissioned an independent strategic review to help
guide the Board and executive.
This judged that Aktive is making
a positive impact, fulfilling its
strategic planning and oversight
role and freeing up local RSTs to
focus on the development and
delivery of grass-roots services.
It concluded that Aktive is playing
a new role in aligning separate forms
of investment to ensure that work
programmes are maximised, thereby
giving up-stream funders confidence,
and that there is value in the
initiatives that Aktive has launched.
This includes centralised shared
services and procurement, which to
date has delivered over $1 million
of realisable savings for the sector
(net of costs). All this has been
achieved with a small staff of fewer
than 16 people; this is our chance to
acknowledge and thank them all for
their hard work over the past year.
To maintain strategic momentum, the Board has determined
that Aktive’s capability should be developed in the new areas
of Insights, Spaces and Places and Targeted Populations.
This will see an acceleration of new opportunities through a
new Targeted Populations Development and Innovation Fund,
locally-based Family Fun Clubs run by our local RST delivery
partners, and the next stage of development for HERA –
Everyday Goddess, Good Sports, TLC (Talent, Leadership
& Character), Pathway to Podium, Performance Coach
Advance and the Chairs’ Roundtable series.
As well, Aktive will play a much more prominent role in
advocacy for the sector, shoulder-to-shoulder with delivery
partners, Healthy Auckland Together and OneVoice.
Aktive will never be a large organisation, so success depends
upon partnerships and collaboration. We would again like
to thank our commercial partners Holden, 2 Degrees, Fairfax
Media, Simpson Grierson, Sheffield and Ricoh, who are
committed to helping us as we expand our work programme
across Auckland, as are our sector partners, AUT, AUT
Millennium Institute of Sport, Massey University, Unitec, Bruce
Pulman Park and the iSPORT Foundation. Our efforts are
helped by Aktive’s Māori Advisory Group, our Coaching & Talent
Development Advisory Group, the Auckland Sports Coalition,
the Tertiary Advisory Group, and project-specific steering
groups for Regional KiwiSport, Good Sports and HERA -
Everyday Goddess. These will be supplemented by Aquatic,
Young People’s and NSO (National Sporting Organisation)
Advisory Groups in 2016/17.
We would like to express our gratitude to the up-stream
stakeholders who have shown such confidence in Aktive
and its approach to Auckland: Sport NZ, High Performance
Sport New Zealand, Auckland Council, WaterSafety New
Zealand, Foundation North, the New Zealand Community
Trust and the Lion Foundation, and to all our delivery agents
and sector partners. Finally, we wantto thank the Aktive
Board for its strategic guidance, which is much valued.
Aucklanders want to live in a city
in which they are encouraged to
be active. The confidence shown
by our investors, and the promise
of gains from The Auckland
Approach to Community Sport
motivate us to keep working hard
so that Auckland becomes the
world’s most active city.