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