Our vision: Everyone. Every day. Enjoying and excelling through sport and recreation.
Our Mission: Creating a sport and recreation environment where more New Zealanders participate, support and win.
Our priorities: young New Zealanders, grassroots sports, recreation, organisational capability of sport and recreation organisations, high performance sport.
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Revised 2010/11 Active Communities Guidelines and the expressions of interest form are now online. SPARC's aim is to invest in projects that will make New Zealand the world’s most active nation.
Territorial authorities play a critical role in the sport and recreation sector. Find out about what they do, funding, facilities, and research, policy and strategy.
Introducing SPARC’s five-step Risk Management Toolkit Who should use the toolkit? What is risk? What is risk management? Why a risk management process? What are the benefits of a risk management process? Guides View th...
New Zealand will celebrate its role as host of one of the world’s greatest sports events by staging a nationwide festival which showcases real New Zealand to the world.
Passing on topical information and research in the sport and physical recreation sector.