Community Sport Involvement | Sport New Zealand

Community involvement

Getting involved in your community through play, active recreation and sport brings enormous benefits and enriches lives.

You might support your whanau's sport and activities, coach a team, volunteer to help your club or organisation, or work in schools. The positive impact you have on your community, the connections you make, and the skills and experience you gain are priceless. Our resources below are designed to support your contributions.

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Coaching and development

Stay involved in your sport while supporting your community. Coaching is a great way to express your passion for sport and to enrich the lives of New Zealanders. It's exciting and satisfying and will help you stay actively involved.

Coaching and development

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Recruit and manage volunteers

Volunteers are a valuable resource in the play, active recreation, and sport sector. We need to find new ones and hold onto these amazing people to ensure their continued involvement. Our resources aim to help organisations understand volunteers' motivations for becoming involved and keep them at the heart of the sector.

Volunteers

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Information for parents

Provide support, and put the child’s needs first – that way they’ll get more out of participation in play, sport, and active recreation.

Parents and caregivers

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Schools and teachers

We support schools in a number of ways in using physical activity experiences to positively contribute to the wellbeing of young people, helping them to become lifelong learners who are confident and creative, connected, and actively involved.

Schools and teachers

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Managing local clubs

Resources and templates to help sporting clubs set up their organisations and identify areas of improvement.

Club management