Financial support for the sector due to COVID-19

Investment for Sport NZ’s current partners to accelerate their recovery, strengthening and future transformation.

COVID-19 has proved challenging for the play, active recreation and sport sector and heightened the existence of inequities for Māori within our system.

To help address this, Sport New Zealand Ihi Aotearoa has created a COVID-19 Kaupapa Māori Response Plan as part of our $265m COVID-19 recovery investment programme.

Investment has been allocated to support gender-neutral facilities at venues for World Cups hosted by New Zealand. This will see upgrades to changing room facilities at the match venues and training grounds that teams will use during the upcoming World Cup tournaments.

This assistance will help individuals, particularly children, young people and their whanau, to address the barrier of cost to participation by providing them with support with the cost of items such as sports shoes, equipment and transport so they can participate in physical activity opportunities.

For community-based programmes and projects helping tamariki and rangatahi get active.

The Government is providing a further $4 million to assist sport and recreation organisations in the Auckland, Northland and Waikato regions financially affected by the extended COVID alert level restrictions between August and December 2021. 

A $5.3 million package to assist sport and recreation organisations primarily in the Auckland region who have been financially impacted by lockdowns resulting from the Delta outbreak.  

Funding support for clubs and regional organisations to cover fixed and operational costs, to ensure our communities' access to active recreation and sporting opportunities is reinstated/maintained.

The Community Resilience Fund phase 2 is now closed.