The use of a Community Sport Coordinator (CSC) in each of the clusters has helped cement a whole-community approach to long-term sustainable impact. The CSC is able to connect the various community organisations so that they work collaboratively to increase young people’s participation through schools, clubs and other various pathways. We thank all our partner schools within these clusters, in particular the Principals and key staff at each respective school who have fully embraced the work we do, help fund the model and trust us to deliver quality products and services that meet their individual needs. Our Sport Capability Build team continues to focus on helping community clubs with their capability and capacity issues. Using various strategies and sets of tools, including our Cloud based “Develop Your Legacy Tool” (www.developyourlegacy. co.nz) we have assisted over 30 separate organisations with a plethora of courses, workshops, strategies, and advice. We are indebted to the funding from Aktive and Auckland Council to enable us to carry out our work in this area. Our advocacy and influencing roles continue to play a key role in the sector where we have helped organisations unlock financial resources from decision makers for specific projects. We cite the work done with the Grey Lynn Pump Track Association as being one particular example of success with close to $100,000 being raised for their project. Our staff continue to hold governance roles with Auckland Badminton Association and Auckland Softball Charitable Foundation Trust. These placements are beneficial to all parties in the form of professional development for our staff, the ability to implement theory into practice and the assurance that up-to-date good practice is being implemented within these organisations. Our relationships with our nine tenants who reside in Sport Auckland House is also a huge strength of our set-up. Out of this arrangement we were able to work closely with Auckland Softball on the development of their new strategic plan, and a large amount of assistance was given to them around their pathwys and coaching succession plans. Lion Foundation has supported us with the Sport Auckland House leasing cost which has been sincerely appreciated. Their support has allowed us to assist our tenants with lesser administrative costs and has allowed us to open up our facilities for use, free of charge, to other sports codes. Organisations such as RSTs, Aktive, High Performance Sport NZ, Sport NZ, Gymsports NZ, NZ Archery, NZ Waterpolo, Athletics NZ, Netball Northern, Auckland Curling, Auckland Rowing, Auckland Rugby, Auckland Baseball, Auckland Weightlifting and AROCA have all benefited from regular use of this service. Our partnerships with our Local Boards in our region also continue to go from strength to strength. In particular we wish to record our thanks to the Chairs and members of Maungakiekie-Tamaki, Puketapapa, Albert-Eden, Waitemata, Orakei and Waiheke Island for the strong working relationship we have formed with them. Several of these boards asked us to deliver community wide workshops and forums around Sponsorship and Health and Safety, which saw an aggregate attendance of 120 participants community-wide. With this year now complete we turn our attention to <strong>2016</strong>/2017. Fronted with more challenges it is clearly evident that the following trends are affecting our communities: a growing, diverse population; a housing shortage and co-related squeeze on spaces and places; limited resources to address genuine barriers to participation; rising obesity issues; and large pockets of inactive communities. Critical thinking around solutions to address these concerns needs to occur. Part of this critical thinking calls for visionary leadership and the assembling of strong collaborative partnerships more so than ever before. Our Board and staff believe Sport Auckland is well positioned to play a major role in this process, delivering on identified solutions. We remain, as always, totally committed to working with our local communities to continue to increase participation in physical activity and to continue to focus on inspiring “Our Communities to Live Healthy and Active Lifestyles”. We look forward to the challenges <strong>2016</strong>/2017 may bring to us all. Andrew Williams, Chair Sport Auckland Mike Elliott, CEO Sport Auckland 6 <strong>Annual</strong> report
“Tennis Northern thanks you for Sport Auckland’s contribution, very useful indeed and if clubs take on board this clearly structured approach to the ‘business’ of sponsorship in and around their clubs I would anticipate success stories (and some great case studies). I am very supportive of an Auckland-wide approach to all we do, including our valued RSTs”. David Frank, CEO Tennis Northern <strong>Annual</strong> report 7
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