Case Studies

Credit: Barry Harcourt 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:

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• Tasman Get Moving - Take a Kid Biking
• Wellington Ocean Sports (PDF, 3.82 Mb) - Connecting Wellingtonians to Wellington Harbour by increasing participation in ocean sports
• HOW TO SET UP A SPORTSVILLE (PDF, 1.28 Mb) - The Hutt City Approach
• 8M8S (PDF, 405 Kb) - A fun way for teens to start participating in sport
• Schools Coaching (PDF, 255 Kb) - Delivering sport coaching to primary school students
  across North Canterbury
• Squash IT (PDF, 563 Kb) –  Offering a wide range of integrated modules that encourage participation, improve game result entry and live gradings, simplify ministration, and enable online court booking, pay and play
• Connecting with Diversity: Auckland Sports Toolkit (includes video feature). The toolkit, which is available for download,  has been developed to provide sport organisations and facility managers with information, tools and support to engage with diverse communities.
• The amalgamation of two clubs: video about Boulcott’s Farm Heritage Golf Club, was formed after the merger of the former Hutt and Boulcott Golf Courses.
• Evaluating the results: Foundation for Youth Development
• 30-year school-club link encourages young Manurewa swimmers

Collaboration

• Waitakere's Neighbourhoods Move It
• Wellington City Council's Sport and Recreation Forum
• 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

• Wriggle and Rhyme welcomes babies and toddlers into libraries for active movement
• 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

• Te Awara Pride: a sport based initiative building social cohesion, tikanga, and identity among Te Arawa  whānau, hapū, iwi and marae
• Te Wharekura o Rakaumangamanga: a school at one with its community
• Lessons in Sustainability: Tauranga's City on its Feet
• 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  
• 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

 Recreation

•  New Zealand Alpine Club strategy for nationwide organisational alignment

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

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