Annual Report 2021

health and wellness
our participants
Our Health and Wellness team provide support for adults, rangatahi and tamariki who would like to become more active, improve
their eating habits and adopt a healthier lifestyle.
We develop and adapt our programmes through insights gathered from participant and referrer feedback, to meet the changing
needs of our community. We aim to offer flexible support through each stage of our participant’s wellbeing journey.
The COVID-19 pandemic encouraged us to find innovative ways to deliver our community based service and these innovations
have now become a permanent fixture in our delivery model. Our online support is an example of this – we have delivered 69
nutrition and wellbeing webinars this year alone, with up to 34 participants joining each online session.
We have also introduced Saturday consultations at two community locations to further reduce barriers for people to engage with
our service. Our Saturday sessions have been very well received and we shall continue to offer this as an option to our participants.
In the Auckland District Health Board (DHB) region, Sport Auckland provides wellbeing support for whanau aged 5 years and
above through delivering both Active Families and Green Prescription programmes. In Counties Manukau, we hold the Green
Prescription contract with the DHB and are into our second year of partnering with South Seas Healthcare and Papakura Marae to
best service those in our community aged 18 years and above.
We continue to connect with our key delivery partners and thank them for their informative and engaging sessions which they
deliver as part of our adult nutrition and wellbeing programmes.
Highlights for the year include our Rangitoto walk and the development of our new Participant Management System.
“I loved football today, I learnt how stop the
ball and kick it back to my partner” – Active
Families participant
“Thank you for the session today… my
turnaround started with the live exercise
class… Getting active has improved my
mental health” – GRx participant
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