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Sport Leaders Network Forum

The Sport Capability Team co-ordinate a bi-monthly network and training forum for CEO’s and General Managers of Regional Sporting Organisations within the Harbour Region. Leadership and Governance topics are the focus of the forum together with regular regional sporting updates lead by sports and other regional stakeholders.

This free bi-monthly network and training opportunity is open to all leaders of regional Sports, whether in a paid or a voluntary role.

The network forum is held at the Harbour Sport Offices, Sports House, Stadium Drive, Albany.

If you would like to attend the network forum on behalf of your regional sporting organisation please contact the Team for details of the next opportunity.

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SPORT LEADERS NETWORK FORUM 3 - Engaging Auckland Council Effectively
Writing for Media, Funding Proposals/ Submissions, to you Stakeholders
Presented by Gail King of Word Sense Ltd, and Harbour Sport

Thursday August 18th 10am-1pm - Harbour Sport Function Room

PR and Media Skills (Gail King, Word Sense)
Writing media articles – and getting them published, Who, What and how…
  • Writing a funding proposal
  • Writing to your stakeholders
 
Harbour Sport Summit
  • Auckland Council and Co-Governance
  • Role of HS, and NHSC, Auckland Coalition
 
North Harbour Sports Council
  • Update and feedback
  • Communication process
 
Registration/RSVP:
Contact Tracy Kemp by Wednesday 4th May  hsadmin@harboursport.co.nz  or 415 4650 

ISSUES FOR SPORT AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Discuss / Capture major issues to your sport. 
  • Facility Issues
    • Access and availability to appropriate venues (Grass, Non Grass, Indoor and Pools)
    • Facilities at Capacity
      • Need more sand based pitches
      • Need more Astroturf pitches
      • Need more access to indoor stadiums
  • Size and space for multi-use, venues are not set up well for multi use e.g. limited floor markings, or size of gym
  • Need more pool space
  • Venue that meet sports needs e.g. deep water for diving,
  • Facilities Costs are increasing participant user costs makings it too expensive for participants
    • Increase facility hire cost with reduced funding to pay for
    • Some facilities cost to access, profile staff and run increasing rapidly
    • Levels of service are not equitable
    • Lack of quality facility on North Shore that can be utilized well to run major events which generates revenue for sport, not venue.
 
  • Facility Solutions
  • Inform Council of real issues, and a process to understand and consult on the issue with council
  • Professional well planned upgrade programme to improve facilities
  • Development of indoor facilities for multiuse (Green, Indoor and Outdoor non Grass)
  • A programme to improve existing fields – e.g. quality for access, lights
  • Artificial Turf Development
  • Planned approach to build facilities/fields in areas of population
  • Sports are willing to collaborate
  • Incentives for collaboration through funding or reduced costs
  • Multisport buy in
  • Logical location for Sports precincts
  • Council implements collaboration and project development with schools.
  • Review of budget to manage equity imbalance between Grass and non grass maintenance funding
  • Use of councils facilities by private organizations must be ‘signed off’ by Sport Organising body (affiliated).
 
  • Funding Issues
  • Lack of certainty, and increase risk for sport organisations as funding is not guaranteed so event profit is key source of income. Lack of funding streams
  • Running costs increasing while funding decreasing
  • Currently increasing costs are being put on user, forcing them away from sport.
  • Not Enough for Sport Development – Staff to manage quality events
  • Over reliance on Trust Funding
  • Facilities and venue costs are greater than 50% of total cost for events.
 
  • Funding Solutions
  • Community Funding Schemes
  • Council fund facilities to help reduce costs for sports for hire. Facility hire rates are rising quickly, and are more expensive on the shore than any other part of the country.
  • Clear and certain funding opportunities for Sports organisation’s through council
  • Linking of Sports, Council, School and Local Business to deliver sport to reduce participant costs.
  • Incentives for these types of collaboration
  • Acknowledgement of the Health and Education Benefits of sport in the community
    • Increase in funding for sport from Health an Crime budgets.
    • Organised Sport helps reduce crime
    • Improve health of community
    • Improve community well being and social interaction
    • Organised Sporting Events increased $ into community through local businesses.
 
  • Coaching and Volunteer Issues
  • Lack of enough quality and quantity
  • Lack of funds to invest in staff (i.e. coach development), due to use of limited amounts of money invested in other areas of business
  • Lack of skilled Coaches/ Volunteers means lack of participation, membership, regular events and development of that sport
 
  • Coaching and Volunteer solutions
  • Council invest in major coach and volunteer development programmes with other partners, SPARC, RST’s
  • Council support resource development for this for major providers in partnership with Schools, Providers and Universities
  • Council help organization link to business.
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