Sharing Good Practice

Active Communities projects and council initiatives encourage people to lead active lifestyles through sport and recreation opportunities.

The case studies below highlight some of the innovative projects and initiatives that have been undertaken. They include information about why the project was initiated, the organisations involved, the lessons learned and how success is measured.

See the links below to learn about Active Communities projects:

Collaboration

• A successful Council and RST partnership: Waitakere Sport Club Taskforce
• Sport Northland’s board structure and strong culture encourages RSO involvement
• Well Spring - Active Edmonton: Lessons Learned (PDF, 393 KB)
• ARPASS (Auckland Regional Physical Activity and Sport Strategy)
• Waitakere - A case study in relationship building
• Hutt Valley No Exceptions District Declaration
• Northland - Steps toward regional collaboration
• High Performance in the South Island – partnership between the NZAS and local government

Young people

• (New!) Local communities lead the way in Northland youth programme
  
• ‘Changing Gear’ a programme bringing cycling opportunities to young people
  
• TeenBoard leads the way for Upper Hutt City Council
• Giving Otago’s young people a Sporting Chance
• Squash into Schools – a Wellington success
• Dads ‘n’ Lads – Sport Bay of Plenty’s beginner mountain biking programme
• Grovetown School - Project Pedal Power Model
• North Shore City Council’s Youth Destinations Programme: In2it makes getting active easy
• Wellington City Council - Talent Development Programme

Community Sport and Recreation

• (New!) Sport Start creates a pathway from being active - to joining a club
  
• Sport Southland’s comprehensive event support initiative for its region’s clubs
  
• Sport Hawke’s Bay’s model for ensuring strong engagement with Māori
• A Wellington karate club becomes financially secure – without external funding
• Bringing club sport and recreation into focus - Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti’s “stock-take tool”
• Pathway 2 Health – Boosting activity levels across the Eastern Bay of Plenty
• Making tracks: Strategies to create new mountain biking terrain
• Waitakere athletic clubs’ partnership increases youth participation in athletics
• North Harbour Sports Council – a unified voice for sport in North Shore City
• Thames Valley swimming clubs’ revitalised through collaboration
• Bike Northland – a success story in cooperation
• Improved communication helps Bay of Plenty sports clubs
• Mairangi Bay - Clubs and Council partner up
• Mythbusting: what the regional data says

Facilities

• Transforming a Wellington sports field with artificial turf
• Performance Assessment of Sports Surfaces (PASS)
• Innovative energy thinking by Christchurch City Council
• Venture Southland targets ongoing viability for Southland’s community pools
• Effective model for managing sport field demand
• Graham Condon Leisure Centre – A partnership innovation
• Auckland City Facilities Partnership Scheme
  

Community initiatives

• Push Play Neighbourhoods
• Upper Hutt’s community wide ‘Activation’
• Taupo - Exercise on Prescription (EoP)
• Way2Go – enabling active choices in Nelson/Tasman
• Wellington - Push Play Outreach
• Tauranga - City On Its Feet Programme

Events

• Adopt a Runner a winner at Rotorua Marathon
• Getting families active - North Shore City Beach Series
• Indo Pacific Trampoline & Tumbling Championships Legacy Programme
• Rotorua World Mountain Bike Champs – Taking an Event into the Community

Environment

• The Active Friendly Environments Project – A partnership informing planning, policy & practice

Updated | 10 Dec 2009.

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