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PrincipalsLetter to Principals and KiwiSport Presentation
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Dear Principal
Please find enclosed ‘Key Messages about the Regional Partnership Fund and Direct Fund components of KiwiSport’ for Schools, Clubs, Regional Sports Organisations and Community Providers.
The Harbour region has approximately $600,000 to be invested in Sport and Recreation Partnerships in the next year. This is per annum and ongoing. (In the first year there is slightly less money available).There are 119 schools in our region , 21 Secondary, 99 primary and Intermediates.
Direct Fund
This is separate to the Regional Partnership Fund and is $6 million nationally of new money paid into School’s operational funds. This is per annum and ongoing.
Objectives
KiwiSport aims to achieve the following objectives:
More kids playing sport: increase the number of school-aged children participating in organised sport – during school, after school and by strengthening links with sports clubs.
More opportunities: increase the availability and accessibility of sport opportunities for all school-aged children.
Better skills: support children in developing skills that will enable them to participate effectively in sport at both primary and secondary level.
SPARC’s outcomes include 80% of school-aged children participating in organised sport and recreation for at least three hours per week.
Organised sport is defined as:
adult supervised.
led by a coach, adult or leader.
has a purpose and intent.
The KiwiSport Regional Partnership Fund is about PARTNERSHIPS
Harbour Sport will invest in organisations and schools that demonstrate they are co-operating and forging partnerships with a focus on sport for school-aged children. Schools are the obvious catchment zone for children to get involved and play sport.
Schools will be expected to make a financial investment contribution to these partnerships in addition to the support from the Regional Partnership Fund. (This is similar to most other investment projects and demonstrates buy in and commitment from the school). Additional investment will go directly to your school’s partnership project.
This money is seed money and it is expected that it provides leverage for additional dollars to be committed to the partnership projects.
Harbor Sport will engage with willing partners and provide partnership advice throughout the development of projects. Projects in partnerships will be a priority. Partnerships and clusters do not need to be geographical, they may be like minded thinking schools and clubs.
Harbour Sport is actively encouraging creative solutions to increase participation in sport.
These partnerships will meet the fundamental KiwiSport aims of:
More Kids
More opportunities
Better Skills
The KiwiSport Regional Partnership Fund is ‘school-centric’
The Regional Partnership Fund is centred on school-aged children. Harbor Sport will invest in organisations which have programmes/projects that demonstrate a focus on more kids playing more sport in school and out of school.
Harbour Sport will only fund schools that provide accurate baseline data for their school. This can be done immediately by going to www.harboursport.co.nz
The information for 2009 must be received before a Regional Partnership Fund Project will be considered for that school.
The KiwiSport Regional Partnership Fund WON’T be used for
The Regional Partnership Fund;
WON’T be spent on administration costs. All regional partnership fund money will go out the door.
WON’T be used to subsidise existing programmes to maintain current levels of operation. Investment in existing programmes will only be considered if it is for the purposes of expansion that will result in more school-aged children playing sport.
Where to from here?
Harbour Sport will present an update to all Primary and Intermediate School Principals on Tuesday September 22nd from 10am – 11.30am at North Harbour Stadium, with opportunity to develop partnership project concepts at this meeting. Pam King, President, North Shore Principal’s Association has endorsed this meeting as ‘an important event for everyone to know about KiwiSport and start planning now’.
Each project cluster will have a key contact person within Harbour Sport to work through the Project Development phase.
Specifics regarding what the application will look like will be available shortly but the criteria will be very simple: More Kids, More Opportunities, Better Skills. Schools will need to demonstrate clear outcomes and methods for measuring these.
The RPF will be administered via an application process. Further information and time lines will be available shortly.
Next Steps for Schools:
Work with a partnership cluster to develop some project possibilities to increase sport participation in your school.
Contact Harbour Sport to help guide and advise the development of the project.
Consult with parents, students, coaches, clubs, regional sports organisations and community members.
Please do not hesitate to contact Harbour Sport with any further questions you may have.
Kind regards
Toni-Maree Carnie
Chief Executive
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