Aktive Summary Annual Report 2015/16

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6 Aktive Summary Annual Report 2015/2016 Message from the Chair and CEO He pānui nō te Heamana me te Kaiwhakahaere Matua Aktive and its key delivery partners Harbour Sport, Sport Auckland, Counties Manukau Sport and Sport Waitakere share a vision for Auckland to be the world’s most active city. This ambition is set in the context of a sector that contributes $1.2bn to the region’s GDP and employs 18,000 people, supported by 308,000 volunteers, but with the significant challenge of historically high levels of obesity and the associated headwind of inactivity. Raewyn Lovett Chair – Aktive In this context, it is pleasing to report on a year of excellent progress against our strategic targets for Auckland, allied to strong operational momentum. We can start with Sport NZ, which showed its confidence in our strategy by significantly increasing its community sport investment over a four-year period 2016-20. This gave us confidence to progress Auckland-wide planning, in collaboration with a wide range of partners, to build a consistent and scalable community sport system which we are calling The Auckland Approach to Community Sport. Sport NZ is not the only community sport partner to confirm the challenge and importance of Auckland: within the last two years Aktive’s up-stream funders have increased their investment by more than 25%. In turn, Aktive invested more than $9 million in to community delivery across Auckland in the 2015/16 year. Each of the four local Regional Sports Trusts (RSTs) who serve their communities Sarah Sandley CEO – Aktive
Aktive Summary Annual Report 2015/2016 7 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 want to 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.
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