Annual Report 2015-2016

Aktive Annual Report 2015/2016 17
MORE AUCKLANDERS MORE ACTIVE
To enable more Aucklanders to be more active, we need to
achieve greater value for every dollar invested as well as
attract greater investment into a sector that’s important to
both the regional economy and New Zealand’s sport and
recreation sector.
Coordination and leadership from Aktive has not only brought
more investment, but also more collaboration across the sector,
with successful local projects rolled out into other parts of
Auckland and successful region-wide initiatives launched to
address issues and opportunities facing the entire region.
Allocation of Investment Funds
Aktive invested more than $9 million on behalf of its key
strategic funders last year for community sport delivery,
strategic leadership and regional service that reflects a number
of interlinking strategies. These include the sector’s Auckland
Sport & Recreation Strategic Action Plan (ASARSAP), Sport
New Zealand’s Community Sport strategy, WaterSafety
New Zealand’s Water Safety Sector Strategy and Aktive’s
strategic plan. Aktive’s investment process ensures
that delivery agents’ KPIs line up side by side to expand
results on the ground.
The successful value proposition
to Sport NZ for community sport
investment resulted in $18,392,000
being confirmed for the Auckland
region for the period 2016-2020.
To follow are highlights of the work performed for Auckland’s
communities and the sport and recreation sector
by Aktive and our delivery partners in the 2015/16 year.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM DELIVERY PARTNERS
College Sport
The past 12 months has seen College Sport continue to
provide management, coordination and support to our 107
member schools and over 100,000 students. We have met
with all of our 45 sport delivery partners and conducted
an extensive review process and consulted with a range
of schools around every sport.
Our aim is to ensure the
competition structures we deliver
remain relevant and continue
to meet the needs of students.
We are looking to make significant
changes to a number of sports for
the 2017 year that better reflect
these needs.
As part of the sanctioning process of our sport delivery
partners, we are ensuring that all health and safety plans
are updated and posted on the College Sport website.
We are continuing to identify and remove barriers to
participation and as part of this, are reviewing College Sport
by-laws with the aim of simplifying how competitions are
managed. We have also launched the College Sport Auckland
App for schools, students, coaches, parents and sport partners
to assist this process. All draws, results, venue locations
and notifications are now provided through this App.
In addition, we are producing a weekly newsletter to share
the outstanding activity that is happening.
However, it is clear that despite all the work that is being done
participation numbers are not increasing and we will need
to work even harder with delivery partners to find innovative
solutions to attract non active students into a participation
pathway. All of us in the sector will need to contribute to the
Young Peoples Plan that Aktive is coordinating, agree on what
part of the plan we will deliver and have faith in one another
to effectively do that. Partnerships can sometimes be hard
but we need to keep the needs of young people at the heart
of all our decisions.
More than $9 million
was invested by Aktive on
behalf of its key strategic
funders last year for
community sport delivery,
strategic delivery and
regional service.