Research, Policy and Strategy

A range of sport and recreation findings and thinking to inform territorial authority best practice.

Sport NZ strategic documents

Territorial Authority / School Partnerships: A Guide (DOC, 5.43 Mb) Access to facilities is an important aspect of participation in sport and recreation. Facility partnerships in New Zealand are increasingly being considered by Territorial Authorities, schools and community organisations as an efficient and cost-effective way to meet the varied sport and recreation needs of communities and school students. Sport NZ commissioned a project in 2010 to better understand the New Zealand experience of the benefits, challenges, and opportunities across a wide range of partnerships, in order to provide practical information to assist TAs, schools and community organisations/trusts thinking about partnerships. The result was to produce a best practice guide for those interested in pursuing potential partnerships. The guide:
- identifies common partnership opportunities (from gaining access to strategic sites, mixed use of existing facilities to developing larger/ more complex facilities)
- outlines processes and steps in developing a partnership, and potential challenges (complexity and time, alignment of partner goals, and costs of pursuing potential partnerships) and, most importantly, advice on how to overcome these challenges to maximise the possibilities)
- emphasises the need for strong alignment of goals between potential partners and early engagement with the Ministry of Education where the partnership involves state-owned land and schools.
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