2023 Annual Report

We deliver the Green Prescription and Active Families
programmes to our communities on behalf of Te Whatu Ora
in Central and South Auckland. As a Charitable Trust, we are
focused on areas of need and not necessarily on the wider
regions in Auckland.
Our Leadership and Connectivity work in the community
continues to grow. Strong relationships with the Waitematā,
Ōrākei, Maungakiekie-Tāmaki, Howick, Puketāpapa and
Albert-Eden Local Boards exist with deputations delivered
to each updating them on our workstreams in their
respective areas. We thank their Chairs and the Auckland
Council Community Brokers for the excellent relationships
we continue to have here. Howick Local Board fund us to
deliver PARS initiatives and sector support work in their area;
Puketāpapa have asked us to Independently Chair their May
Road War Memorial Park Users group on their behalf.
Our work in the Play area has taken off this year with
good inroads being made around the Neighbourhood Play
Systems. This culminated in the inaugural Play Festival held
in conjunction with Stanhope Road School in November
2022, as mentioned earlier. We have more Play Festivals in
store for the upcoming year.
Active Recreation, a relatively new workstream for us, has
also grown in reach. We have strategically extended our
reach in this area through the Student Engagement Lead
roles, from three schools to five schools. There has been a
tremendous upswing in rangatahi becoming active, based
on the voice of the students and in aligning to the Mana
Taiohi Framework. The deployment of Tū Manawa Active
Aotearoa funding has assisted in the achievements and
impact in this space with fuller detail of these achievements
being recorded elsewhere in this report.
Our Regional Sports Director (RSD) work continued with us
supporting Director of Sports and Sports Coordinators in
37 secondary schools, for the overall benefit of rangatahi.
The value and benefits of youth sport, coaching and active
recreation would be enhanced if every secondary school in
our region was able to embed physical activity within their
individual school strategic plans. Physical activity plays
such a vital role in the lives of our tamariki and rangatahi,
particularly around mental wellness and social connections.
It is alarming to think that the next generation of parents
coming through will have all grown up wedded to social and
digital media platforms and technology – an inherent risk to
the lifelong love of physical activity.
Our Healthy Active Learning initiative, into its third year of
implementation, is now being delivered in 54 Primary and
Intermediate schools throughout our communities. The
engagement with these schools has been fantastic and the
Healthy Activity Learning Opportunities (HALO) for teachers
has been very well received. We sincerely appreciate and
thank the Roskill, Tāmaki , Maungakiekie and Inner-City
clusters of school principals who support and advocate for
our work and that of the overall Healthy Active Learning
we have formed with the Tāmaki and Roskill School clusters
and New Zealand Community Trust who help fund the work
we do in this space, over and above the actual Healthy Active
Learning initiative.
Our sector support work, kindly funded by Auckland
Council, has enabled our team to help build the delivery
capability and capacity of many clubs and organisations who
have reached out to us for help. The outcome remains to
strengthen the overall sporting system in Auckland. We have
been able to deliver webinars and workshops around topics
such as Governance, Funding, Legal considerations, Girl’s
empowerment, and School-Club connections. We continue
to advocate for and to give assistance to those clubs looking
to create community sports hubs with a current focus on
Lloyd Elsmore Community Hub (LECH), Ellerslie Sports Club,
Glendowie Tennis/Bowls Community Sports Hub and the
Howick Pakuranga Community Sports Centre (HPCSC).
Funding from Foundation North has been very much
appreciated and allowed our key work in the Asian and
Pasifika space to continue to flourish. We are working with
key leaders and groups here to help build a sustainable
system that allows our Asian and Pasifika stakeholders to be
able to participate in PARS opportunities of their choice. We
are working on their behalf to help remove the barriers and
inequities that currently exist that prevent these groups from
being able to participate in physical activity.
We continue to deliver the Te Whatu Ora Green Prescription
and Active Families contracts within the Central and
South Auckland regions. Along with our partners in the
South Auckland Region, Papakura Marae and South Seas
Healthcare, we are very proud of achieving our target of
engaged participants. A big thanks to Tony Kake (Papakura
Marae), Silao Vaisola-Sefo (South Seas Healthcare) and their
respective teams for their collaborative work this year. We
also sincerely thank our relationship managers, Leanne
Catchpole (Te Whatu Ora Central) and Nivedita Sharma Vij
(Te Whatu Ora South) for their sage advice, guidance and
support. You can read elsewhere what our participants have
said about our health programmes and their successful
journeys of change, of which there are many heartwarming
stories and life changing moments.
On behalf of Sport New Zealand and Aktive, we have again
distributed $1,019,310 of Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa funding
into the community. There is a summary section of what has
been funded and what has been achieved with that funding
within this report.
➡ $1,019,310 distributed into the community
To help us achieve our work and create long lasting and
meaningful stakeholder relationships we again would like
to acknowledge some key people who have helped us
this year. Sarah Dunning, Sport New Zealand’s relationship
manager for Auckland, has again been extremely helpful and
supportive of our work. We value all our interactions with
Jennah Wootten and her Aktive team have also been very helpful and supportive throughout the year. It is a curious relationship
to be both a funder and a partner, but Jennah and the team traverse that role well and we value the partnership immensely.
And to our fellow RSTs in Auckland Craig Carter (CEO CLM Community Support), Mike Bishop (CEO Harbour Sport) and Lynette
Adams/Dave George (CEOs Sport Waitakere) we thank you for your valued partnership and support. We are all collaborating and
partnering together, working in our own regions, but collectively working toward that transformational change to make Auckland
the most active city in the world.
We also remain indebted to the support and partnerships we receive from Auckland Trotting Club Incorporated (Landlord of Sport
Auckland House), Softsource Ltd (IT), Sporty (website and CRM), West City Auto Group (our fleet provider), RICOH (photocopier),
Lion Foundation (rent contribution to Sports Auckland House), Dragon Community Trust (Sector Support) and Grassroots Trust
(Sector Support). We sincerely thank you all for your continued support which enables us to get on with servicing our communities.
We look forward to continuing to work with you over the upcoming years.
To our volunteer Board members who continue to provide us with strong governance and leadership we thank you all. The Board
met on 10 occasions this year ensuring we remained on track with our purpose and strategy. They also continue to work toward
the attainment of our Good Governance Accreditation mark and diligently fulfil their roles around financial sustainability, prudent
fiscal oversight, health and safety oversight, staff culture and stakeholder relationships. We thank them for their stewardship.
To our valued and skilled staff, we cannot thank you enough for all the hours and hard mahi that has been put in this year. The
Board and stakeholders truly value each one of you for everything you do as servant leaders for our community. Challenges, trials,
tribulations, fun, enjoyment, and successes have been experienced by all this year – and everyone keeps coming back smiling
and happy to face another day. Thank you.
As we “wrap” for another year it gives us a chance to pause, reflect and celebrate.
We will never take this servant leadership role we have for granted and are grateful
for the community to allow us to partner with them. We eagerly look forward to
continuing to work alongside you all again over the next twelve months. With
the FIFA Women's World Cup in front of us next month, this excitement and
momentum of taking part in sport and physical activity is becoming habitual –
long may this continue. All the best to the Football Ferns for that opener at Eden
Park, on 20th July, against Norway. The country is right behind you.
Andrew Williams, Chair
Mike Elliott, Chief Executive
our trustees work
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Our Board met 10 times during the year and the AGM was
conducted on 7 December 2022.
initiative. We are indebted to the generosity and partnerships Sarah and appreciate what she does for all those in Auckland.
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TRUSTEE
MEETINGS
ATTENDED
Andrew Williams - Chair 10
Dianne Lasenby - Treasurer 9
Gaye Bryham 10
Brendon O’Connor 7
Mark Rice (Dispensation for 8
meetings)
Kelly Williams 10
Boaz Moala 6
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part of their Governance role during this financial year
the Board:
• Set their annual workplan;
• Approved and monitored the 2022-2023 annual
budget;
• Received and actioned the Management Letter
from Auditors;
• Held responsibility for the 2020-2024 Strategic
Plan;
• Managed and anticipated business risk;
• Connected risk to strategy;
• Managed the Health and Safety risks and overall
Health and Wellbeing of staff;
• Conducted the AGM on 7 December 2022;
• Continued with the Good Governance Mark
accreditation process;
• Approved the deployment of $1,019,310 of
Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa Funding into the
community;
• Received and approved End of Year Community