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Canterbury Spaces and Places Plan
The benefits of participation in sport are well documented. Sport and recreation facilities play a key role in generating economic activity within Canterbury. In a recent study, the value of sport and recreation’s contribution to the wider Canterbury / West Coast area was estimated at $382.3m per annum (or 1.3% of GDP for the area). The benefits go far wider than the economic value, sport and recreation offers social, cultural and physical benefits to individuals, family/whanau and the wider community. This Plan provides a snap shot of the current and planned sporting facilities network for the area defined by the territorial boundaries of Ashburton District Council, Selwyn District Council, Christchurch City Council, Waimakariri District Council and Hurunui District Councils.
Gymsports National Facility Strategy
The purpose of the Gymsports National Facility Strategy is to provide a high-level strategic framework for national facilities planning. It is designed to provide direction on what should be done and crucially, what should not be done. The Strategy is designed to focus thinking on gymsports facilities at a national network wide level.
Gymsports Facility Guide
The Gymsports Facility Guide enables project proponents of a proposed development to test its viability in logical stages. It also enables a better understanding of the perspectives of key project enablers (such as Gymnastics NZ, Sport NZ, Regional Sports Trusts and funders) early in the process prior to any concept design work being undertaken.
Building capable organisations: The challenge for Cycling New Zealand
Sport NZ has a strong interest in ensuring the partners we invest in are capable and sustainable. We work with National Sports Organisations to build capability in the priority areas of leadership development, governance, financial management, systems and processes, commercialisation and IT. We also have tools which help our partners’ asses their strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges they face. This includes supporting sports to carrying out reviews when necessary. The following case study looks at a recent review carried out by the national body for cycling.