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Community Services Bulletin February 2020
1. REPORT OF THE DISTRICT ARTS & HERITAGE CURATOR – December 2019– January
2020 (Jim Geddes)
ARTS & HERITAGE PRECINCT
Exhibitions (Annual Plan KPI = 10 per annum)
• Nigel Brown – Southern Interactions – 2 October to 1 December
• Timely Additions – in partnership with Physics Room – 2 October to 1
December
• Michael Smither – Drawn – from 7 December
• Works from the Kelliher Art Trust Collection – from 7 December
Events (Annual Plan KPI = 10 per annum)
• Timely Additions – Floor Talk – 23 November
Gifts to Gallery permanent collection
• Nigel Brown (33 x works – paintings/prints/works-on-paper/sculptures)
• Evelyn Page (1 x work)
External loans from Gallery permanent collection
• City Gallery Wellington/ Auckland Art Gallery (19 x works – confirmed)
• Christchurch Art Gallery/Dunedin Public Art Gallery (3 x works – processing)
• Te Papa Museum of New Zealand/Royal Academy London (2 x works –
processing)
Talks, tours and education programmes (Annual Plan KPI = 50 per annum)
• Southern Region JP’s Association
• Community Trust South
• South Otago High School
• Moatrek tours (x 2)
Meetings and representations
• Hon Shane Jones – Project Update presentation
• Southland Regional Storage Facility – Planning
• Southland Regional Heritage Strategy
• Supervision of Roving Museum Officer
• Southland Regional Heritage Committee - Advisors
• Southland Rail Heritage Strategy
• Provincial Growth Fund - MBIE
• University of Sydney – Research Project
• Signal Management – Gallery Earthquake Strengthening/Maruawai Stage
One
Project funding initiatives
Community Trust South – East Gore Art Centre Project $ 9,000.00
The Trusts Community Foundation – Gore District Historical Society $ 30,965.00
Community Trust South – Maruawai Stage Two $250,000.00 Maruawai project Stage one PGF deliverables (as per MBIE Funding Agreement) in accordance with co-funding requirements: (Hokonui Heritage Centre Trust) Deliverables Target Achieved Funds released Commencement of consenting phase and commencement of off-site construction 1 November Yes $85,000.00 phase
2. REPORT FROM LIBRARY MANAGER
Library building
Next steps for planning the library rebuild:
• 30 January - a Council workshop to investigate the scope of a modern library
service, ideal size and potential location
• 5 February - the process for deciding on the way forward for the Library service
will be reported (herein) in the Community Services Bulletin
• 6 May - high level recommendations for an expected Council decision will be
discussed at the Community Strategy Committee meeting, prior to the full
Council making a decision
Mataura Library and Service Centre
Following the report to the December Mataura Community Board meeting about
challenges caused by unsupervised children at the Mataura facility, and subsequent
sympathetic news coverage, we are very pleased to report a notable reduction in
incidents since mid-December. It is expected that the recommendations for security
cameras to be installed and the seat outside the main door to be moved will be
actioned soon.
Some new furniture has arrived at Mataura and awaits assembly and installation. This
is stage one of a plan to move the children’s area to the front and have lower child-
friendly shelves and furniture.
Christmas – New Year closing
Both libraries closed for two weeks covering the weeks of Christmas and New Year,
due to the holidays falling mid-week. The after-hours returns bin was very well-used
during this period, and had to be emptied every second day. Gore Library will be open
between Christmas and New Year for the 2020-21 holidays.
Promotions and activities
• The Wrapped Books promotion book in November enticed 72 people to read
a surprise book and many said they enjoyed the change to their normal reading
choices.
• Elfred got up to his night time antics in the month preceding Christmas, to the
delight of our younger readers. There was a lot of online and in library
engagement with this fun activity. The kids and their parents just loved it.
• Displays
o Movember – books especially for men
o Christmas displays
o Okapua fossil shells, fossils on loan from Brian Kelly
• Summer reading to-date books read was visually measured by ice cream
scoops, and the children developing a beach scene as they came to discuss
their reading with the librarians.
• Christmas storytime and crafts, scavenger hunt and a themed activity table
added to the summer ambience.
• As well as our local library-based summer reading challenge young readers
were invited to participate in a national online reading challenge Super
Smash, organised jointly by ReadNZ Te Pou Muramura and New Zealand
Cricket. We understand this has been particularly popular with boys and with
rural families.
• Summer book sale income to date is $401.00
Gore Library visitor numbers
Visits to the Gore Library in the James Cumming Wing hall temporary location is still
up compared to the same period in 2018 in the precinct Library. The reason for this is
unclear, but we continue to monitor this trend.
VISITOR GORE LIBRARY
JULY-DECEMBER 2018 AND 2019
2018-19 2019-20
12000
10519 10384
10000 9390
8525
7861 7921
7459
Visitor Numbers
8000 7169 6999 6606
6119
6000 5181
4000
2000
0
July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
Customer survey
A library user survey during two weeks in January invited feedback on a number of
services. Questions about which site is preferred – Norfolk Street or Ardwick Street,
and how often people would use a meeting room - should be able to be reported at
the 30 January Council workshop. A full survey report will be included in the May
Community Services bulletin.
Summer snippet
An evening staff member assisted a 10 year old lad who’d run away from home after
an argument with his brother. The library was the place he came to in his distress and
he was soon happily reunited with his relieved family.
3. REPORT FROM PARKS AND RECREATION MANAGER (Ian Soper)
General operations
Parks reserves and cemetery staff are operating in a business as usual mode at present
and fully committed to their primary roles. Spring-like growth factors impacted
service delivery in late 2019 especially in the Cemeteries division. Additional staff
resource was needed and several parks and reserves staff were redirected to help out
cemetery staff. This is an emerging issue as our Cemeteries continue to grow.
There was an issue between Christmas and New Year with water supply at Dolamore
Park. 3 Waters staff are working through the issue to ensure it can maintain agreed
levels of service.
Projects
• Dog Parks
o The Gore dog park opened on 24 December as scheduled.
The first users of the Gore Dog Park
• Depot workshop rebuild
o The workshop rebuild project is approximately 98% complete at the time
of writing. Code of Compliance (CoC) is pending with all outstanding
matters addressed by the building contractors. Internal wiring and fitout
will occur as soon as the CoC is issued.
• Playgrounds
o Eccles Street junior playground has been completely rebuilt with the
addition of new rubberised softfall replacing the bark. This is a higher level
of service for the Districts most utilised playground, which now aligns with
the strategic goal.
• Regional Places and Places Strategy
o Discussions with the lead agency, Sport Southland continue.
• Asset Management Plans
o Work continues on constructing division based asset management plans
(AMP’s). The AMP’s will contain relevant and detailed information that will
be the underpinning dataset of the Council’s Long Term Plan 2021-31.
• Predator Free 2050 (PF2050)
o Ongoing dialogue and consultation with the coordinator and stakeholders.
o A separate report and update is on the Community Strategy meeting
agenda.
• Project Vacate
o This project is now complete with full Council operation now being
delivered from temporary offices in the James Cumming Wing.
Events
• February
o A lot of planning is going into various events that occur in February.
Hokonui Moonshine Trail, Southern Field Days, Garden Club Flower show,
A&P Show, Pipe Band field day, school athletics, annual Dog Show and the
Mataura Volunteer Fire Brigade hosting the South Island Waterway
competition.
• Gore District Christmas Parade and Christmas in the Park
o Staff attended regular meetings in the leadup to once again running this
annual Council event, for the community's benefit.
Community interaction
Interaction with groups, clubs, and organisations over the past month;
• Sport Southland, consultation, and meeting attended.
• A & P Joint Management Committee, consultations with staff.
• Southland Equestrian Park Trust, consultations and meeting attended.
• Southland Rhododendron Group, consultation.
• Gore Garden Club, consultation.
• Pukerau Cemetery Support Group – consultation.
• Various sub-contractor contact.
• Various sports club interaction.
• discussions and liaison with various suppliers.
Collegial interaction:
• Recreation Aotearoa (RA), consultation.
• RA - Otago Southland Branch, consultation.
• South Island Park Managers Forum – on-going collegial dialogue.
• New Zealand Park Agencies Managers Group (PAMG), Governance Group –
teleconferences, meeting and operational input.
Non-financial performance measures
Percentage of community that are satisfied across the
range of property and recreation criteria
94% satisfied
Sport Southland
The Council has a contractual arrangement with Sport Southland to deliver
recreational programmes. The six monthly report from the Eastern Southland
Coordinator, Gemma O’Neill, is attached.
4. CLEAN AIR LOANS QUARTERLY REPORT 31 DECEMBER 2019
Background
The Council has an agreement with Environment Southland to provide interest-free
clean air loans. The purpose of the scheme is to assist ratepayers with installing
heating options which are compliant with the new clean air regulations.
Scheme update
A report is attached summarising the approved applications and loans issued. The
report is also provided to Environment Southland.
During the last quarter, one new application was approved, and four loans were
issued. Principal repayments remain on schedule.
Approximately 9% of the loans are for insulation upgrades. The Council has allocated
$50,000 to assist with insulation upgrades if they are required as part of a clean heat
source installation.Report from the Communications/Marketing Manager – Sonia Gerken
Public consultations
Ready For Tomorrow – A Discussion about Spatial Planning: This public consultation is open
until 26 February. It involves:
• An information card sent to all ratepayers with the instalment 3 rates notice.
• 500 copies of the 16-page consultation document available at various locations in
Gore, Mataura and Waikaka, and sent directly to key stakeholders.
• Web page and online submission form.
• Promotion at Southern Field Days and community information sessions.
• Press release and article in ChinWag digital magazine.
• Social media, newspaper, digital promotion.
Public consultations pending:
• West Gore playground and reserves
• Liveable Gore
• District Plan
• Gore District Residents’ Survey
Public information projects
Involvement ranges from coordinating signage, press releases, pamphlets, website content,
taking photographs and creating social media posts
• PayMyPark
• Leak assessment notifications
• Multiple road closures/road works notifications
Digital Engagement
A considerable amount of time and effort is demanded by social media. However, the Council
is seeing good engagement. For example, a post on Wednesday 23 January about multiple
vacancies at the Council recorded 366 click throughs to our Jobs page on the website.
Here is an overview of the first six months of this financial year on Facebook:Customer
SOCIAL
MEDIA
enquiries via
private
message
STATS
61
Reach
343,631
July 2019 - January 2020
Comments
Engagement 141
63,985 POSTS
1,832
MOST POPULAR
22/11 Friday Flashback -
horses on Bridge Street
Up from 4,213
Reach 11,892 Engagement 2,210
to 4,432Google My Business statistics for 1 November to 26 January were: • 20,797 people searched for the Council on Google. The most common actions customers take on our Google listing were: • 1,006 visited our website • 176 asked for directions • 645 called us Gore District Council website Below are the analytics for the last 28 days. The most interesting point to note is the increase in the number of people using their phones to access our website.
Antenno The number of customers on Antenno continues to grow. At the time of writing, Antenno had been installed on 793 devices and there were 1,217 places saved. Another download promotion is planned for Southern Field Days. Below are the statistics for topics and reports in December and January.
VISITOR INSIGHTS REPORT
Tourism/Gore Visitor Centre Senior Consultant Renatta HardySUMMARY
Summer is our busy season. However, visitor centre statistics for ‘Heart of
2019 show business has been steady throughout the year. We are Southland’
starting to see NZ-wide the previous strong growth in tourism
softening, albeit temporarily. This slight slowdown is an opportunity
for the Gore District tourism industry to take a breather, undertake a
tourism offering audit, continue working to ensure a sustainable
future and prepare for future growth.
VISITOR CENTRE STATS
Jan-Dec 2019 - total number of visitors 58,360, up 5.2% from 55,495 for the same period last
year.
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ore Visitor
VisitorCentre
CentrNumbers
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NumbersMonth-on-Month
(Jan-Dec) MoMComparison
Comparison
8 00 0
7 00 0
6 00 0 2019 2018
5 00 0
4 00 0
3 00 0
2 00 0
1 00 0
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Jan Fe b M ar Ap r
M ay Jun Jul
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GORE VISITOR CENTRE SALES (Jan - Dec 2019/2018)
Gross income for the Jan-Dec 2019 is $144,993, up 4.7% from $138,468 for the same period
last year.
Gore Visitor Centre Sales (Jan-Dec) Month-on-Month Comparison
$ 25 ,00 0
2019 2018
$ 20 ,00 0
$ 15 ,00 0
$ 10 ,00 0
$ 5,0 00
$0
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Fe b
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The most significant increase in product sale is for Hokonui moonshine chocolate by Jude Taylor.
For Jan-Dec 2019 sales totalled $3,192.50, up 42.7% from $2,237.50 for the same period last year.TOURISM DISTRICT INSIGHTS
International visitor spend down 2% to $8 million
Top 5 International Markets
Domestic visitor spend down 5.9% to $64 million
1. Australia (up 9.0%)
Total spend down 5.5% to $72 million
2. USA (up 17.0%)
3. UK (down 11.0%)
4. Germany (up 21%)
5. China (down 30.0%)
Visitor market YE Oct 2019
International
11%
Domestic
89%
The spending Retail: Other up 22% increase for the year-end October 2019 is caused by visitors
engaging more with Gore retailers. The increase in day-visitor numbers and the new NPD petrol
station are the main drivers behind Retail: Fuel, Other Automotive section up 22% on the same period
last year.
Short-Term Rental Data & Analytics January 2020
There are 42 active rentals in the Gore District as of January 2020 monitored by AirDNA.
MarketMinder provides valuable insights into the performance of Gore DIstrict holiday rentals, such
as AirBnB. It does this by analysing critical trends over the last three years to provide a picture
of how the short-term rental industry is evolving. The Gore District has been experiencing strong
growth in this sector since Jul 2017.VISITOR FEEDBACK/MEDIA ARTICLES
GORE VISITOR CENTRE
Date of experience: January 2020
Date of experience: 22 January 2020
Date of experience: 20 December 2019
(Translated by Google) It is located just at the foot of the
road, so access is simple, in front is the museum, which if you
have time you can visit as a curiosity, but nothing remarkable.
In the visitor center, the lady who attended us was very kind
and gave us all the information we needed.
(Original)
Se encuentra justo a pie de carretera, así que el acceso es
sencillo , en frente se encuentra el museo, que si tienes tiempo
se puede visitar a modo de curiosidad, pero nada destacable.
En el centro de visitantes, la señora que nos atendió fue muy
amable y nos dio toda la información que necesitábamos.
MOONSHINE MUSEUM
Date of experience: 07 January 2020
Date of experience: 18 January 2020
Date of experience: 10 January 2020
Sources: Total Spend in NZD Figures for Year End October 2019 MRTE’s (Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates) | AirDNA MarketMinder Jan 2020 | Gore Visitor Centre
Footprint Counter YTD December 2019 | Vend GoreNZ Shop Jan-Dec 2019Quarterly report as at
31/12/2019
Applications received: Funding Total Heating ‐ ES Insulation ‐ GDC
Approved: 23 92% Available funds: 190,000.00 140,000.00 50,000.00
Declined: 1 4%
Withdrawn 1 4% Less: Loan balance remaining: 54,099.33 48,299.27 5,800.06
25 Less: Loans approved but not issued: 31,719.30 31,719.30 ‐
Funds still available for clean air loans: 104,181.37 59,981.43 44,199.94
Loans approved for Heating 100,178.46 92% Number of Loans in default Nil
Loans approved for Insulation 9,002.80 8%
TOTAL LOANS APPROVED 109,181.26 Amount in default Nil
TOTAL LOANS ISSUED 77,461.96
Less Total loan repayments (23,362.63)
Total loan balance remaining 54,099.33
Gore District Council (GDC) share 5,800.06
Environment Southland (ES) share 48,299.27
ES payments into loan scheme 40,000.00
Balance ES payable to GDC 8,299.27
GDC will invoice ES each quarter for any balance required.
Approved
Loan Loan Loan Principal Loan Balance Cost Of
Loan Heating Insulation Amounts Term Loan Issued Repayments Remaining Loan Matures Arrears Admin
$ $ $ Yrs $ $
1 2,734.25 2,265.75 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 2,230.68 $ 2,769.32 12‐10‐22 0.00%
2 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 2,192.22 $ 2,807.78 26‐10‐22 0.00%
3 4,043.72 ‐ 4,043.72 5 yrs YES $ 1,819.80 $ 2,223.92 20‐09‐22 0.00%
4 3,382.15 1,617.85 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 576.90 $ 4,423.10 22‐05‐24 0.00%
5 3,284.40 1,715.60 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 2,230.68 $ 2,769.32 12‐10‐22 0.00%
6 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 2,249.91 $ 2,750.09 20‐09‐22 0.00%
7 4,998.22 ‐ 4,998.22 5 yrs YES $ 1,999.40 $ 2,998.82 04‐01‐23 0.00%
8 3,422.40 1,577.60 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 1,807.62 $ 3,192.38 15‐03‐23 $ 38.46 0.00%
9 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 1,749.93 $ 3,250.07 20‐03‐23 0.00%
10 4,577.32 ‐ 4,577.32 5 yrs YES $ 1,637.73 $ 2,939.59 29‐03‐23 0.00%
11 3,174.00 1,826.00 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 1,833.26 $ 3,166.74 20‐02‐23 0.00%
12 3,842.70 ‐ 3,842.70 3 yrs YES $ 1,675.18 $ 2,167.52 15‐09‐21 0.00%
13 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 167.06 $ 4,832.94 20‐10‐24 0.00%
14 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 192.30 $ 4,807.70 23‐10‐24 0.00%
15 4,581.99 ‐ 4,581.99 5 yrs NO $ ‐ $ ‐ 15‐01‐25 0.00%
16 4,581.99 ‐ 4,581.99 5 yrs NO $ ‐ $ ‐ 15‐01‐25 0.00%
17 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 807.66 $ 4,192.34 20‐03‐24 0.00%
18 4,804.21 ‐ 4,804.21 3 yrs NO $ ‐ $ ‐ 25‐01‐23 0.00%
19 4,217.99 ‐ 4,217.99 5 yrs NO $ ‐ $ ‐ 15‐01‐25 0.00%
20 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs NO $ ‐ $ ‐ 12‐02‐25 0.00%
21 5,000.00 ‐ 5,000.00 5 yrs YES $ 192.30 $ 4,807.70 23‐10‐24 0.00%
22 3,533.12 ‐ 3,533.12 3 yrs NO $ ‐ $ ‐ 15‐02‐23 0.00%
23 5,000.00 ‐ 4,495.00 5 yrs NO $ ‐ $ ‐ 15‐01‐25 0.00%
#VALUE! ‐ ‐ NO $ ‐ $ ‐
#VALUE! ‐ ‐ NO $ ‐ $ ‐
1Sport Southland
Mid-Year Report: to 31 December 2019
OBJECTIVES REPORTING
Lead Advocate on key strategic issues relating to sport Celebration of Sporting / Recreational Achievements
and recreation that impact on Gore District • Sport Southland sponsored the Coach of the Year category at the Gore
Celebrate sporting and recreation achievements District Community Awards, as well as presenting the award on the
Utilise and conduct research to inform strategy evening. The Eastern Community Sport Advisor (ECSA) was a member
and programme development of the judging panel. Sport Southland Management also helped GDC
Develop positive communication with key staff with advice on the event itself, with their experience hosting
stakeholders who support getting people active their own similar awards annually.
everyday through sport and recreation
Regional Spaces and Places Strategy
• In 2018, Sport Southland undertook a review of the 2003
Southland Leisure Strategy. The review highlighted a general
interest by interviewees in collaborative, regional planning. The
new strategy will enable investment in identified priority projects
that will make the most impact at both a local and regional level.
This strategy will support the ongoing capture and sense making
of data trends to ensure effective decision making by establishing
baselines in facilities, usage and practices (also enabling national
comparisons). It will enable the development of planning
principles and criteria to allow for consistent processes for
assessing applications across a range of stakeholders. These
principles will include good practice around collaboration and
sharing opportunities, multi-use and effective asset management
for future sustainability.
• Gore District Council has committed to support the strategy
development and have been actively involved in the initial
conversations and steering group meetings. GDC has also played a
key role to gain buy-in and engagement from MLT.• In November 2019, the GDC hosted a successful stakeholder
meeting in involving the consultants on the project, where the
state of play of sport, recreation and facilities in the Eastern area
were discussed and will become part of the final strategy. The
consultants spent an entire day touring around the area and its
facilities also.
Communication with Key Stakeholders
• Monthly meetings are held between Sport Southland and the Gore
District Council Parks and Recreation Manager to discuss direction
and identify opportunities to support and partner more closely with
the Gore District Council.
• Ready for Living and Ready for Growth: We have continued to offer
support for these via the ECSA and new GM during 2019.
Gore Ensign
• On a monthly basis we have a column in the Ensign focused on
keeping people active by motivating and encouraging readers to get
out there and explore our district, as well as highlighting events and
other interesting stories relating to sport and recreation in the Gore
District.
• We have continued to work with the Gore Ensign reporters to keep
them up to date with a variety of sporting story opportunities in order
for these to be reported in the paper and show what is being achieved
by our athletes and sports clubs across the Eastern district.
• We have the availability of a half page add, paid for in conjunction
with the MLT, to promote specific Eastern based sporting information
as and when required.
Please see Appendix 1 for examples of the articles Sport Southland have
written about Eastern Southland.Communication with Community
• In November 2019 Sport Southland held a community focus group
meeting with eight (8) members of the community. This was run by
an independent facility and attended by Sport Southland
management. The insights will be used to help inform Sport
Southland’s future strategy and brand/name decisions currently
being looking at.
Healthy Attitudes Towards Alcohol (HATA)
• Sport Southland’s Healthy Families Invercargill team have been
working with the MLT, who are a member of the HATA group, a
collaborative body made up of representatives from the health
sector, councils, licensing trusts, and police across Southland.
• Funding for the second edition of the Our Voice (aimed to be
completed by March 2020) report into alcohol harm in Murihiku has
been confirmed and will involve a wider range of stakeholders than
the original version in 2016. First edition stakeholders, Healthy
Families Invercargill and ACC have been joined by several other
funders as an example of how a collective approach to addressing
alcohol harm is being established in Southland.
• MLT and their establishments have contributed to the report
through answering focus group questions, which will help to develop
an understanding of our community’s drinking culture. The
questions are to gauge what people are seeing in their professional
capacity.
Strengthen Increase the opportunities available for coach, Schools
volunteer and teacher development • Sport Southland has kept in touch with the Eastern Southland School
Enhance the capability of key people and Sport Activator over this time period, always making sure the offer of
organisations within sport and recreation help and/or support was known. Come 2020 the ECSA will re-joining
the organising committee for this important position.
• Working with Eastern Secondary Schools to conduct focus groups to
gather youth voice around sport. These insights will be used to
influence sport providers (schools, RSOs and clubs) to review theircurrent youth participation and competition structures and
understand if they are meeting the needs of their participants. If they
are not, youth voice will be used to co-design new and alternative
opportunities that are more participant focussed. Gore High have
been involved in 2019, and St Peters have been approached for the
coming year.
• Swim Safe Southland: across the year all primary aged school children
from all Eastern schools receive ten (10) ‘Water Safety for Life’ lessons
from qualified swim instructors at the Gore Aquatics Centre. This is
part of the wider provincial program, Swim Safe Southland, making
sure all Southland children establish broad fundamental
competencies for life-long water safety.
Sport Organisations
• Sport Southland has been supporting RSO Coach Developers who
have been facilitating sport specific sessions for coaches in Gore
during the past 6 months.
• Sport Southland staff have kept in touch with the group that
attended the first ‘Eastern Southland Sports Café’ in June 2019, but
to date the uptake of further commitment has not been high.
Internally we have decided that the ‘face to face’ method used for
the initial session is what made it so great and so have decided to
move forward with quarterly sessions for 2020 and onwards to help
progress some of the ideas of the group.
Grow Supporting organisations to develop new and KiwiSport
better opportunities to increase the number of • Three (3) projects received funding from KiwiSport Regional
young people participating in quality sport and Partnership Fund and were delivered during this period:
recreation opportunities through schools, holiday o Knapdale School – Physical Activity Leaders (PALs) lunch time
programmes, clubs and events games ($1100)
Supporting organisations to develop new and o Wyndham Primary School – Tennis at Wyndham and Mokoreta
better opportunities to increase the number of ($1155.44)
adults participating in quality sport and recreation o Cricket Southland – East Community Development Officer
opportunities through clubs and events ($6000)• $8650.44 + GST of KiwiSport funding was spent on the youth of
Eastern Southland in this time period.
Green Prescription (GRx)
• 95 Eastern adults (17 years and older) supported to become more
active and / or adopt healthy eating habits through the Green
Prescription programme in the six months to 31 December 2019.
Active Families (AF)
• Five (5) children from four (4) families supported to become more
active and / or adopt healthy eating habits through the Active
Families programme in the six months to 31 December 2019.
• Engagement to attract further referrals for 2020 has been made via
the Mataura Community Workers meeting and all Eastern Medical
Centres, especially those who have not made any referrals up till
now.
• Schools have been approached also. Mataura Primary Principal, DP
and Health Nurse met with Sport Southland staff to discuss and
advertise AF to their families; and Tapanui where the Principal
invited Sport Southland staff to speak at assembly to students,
parents and staff about Active Families and GRx programmes.
• A ‘fun-day’ event was held in Mataura in October to try an attract
families to meet the staff involved, learn about the programme and
start their own referral process. This event was not well attended
and a second attempt to do a similar thing will be held in early 2020.
Events
• Vodafone Workplace Challenge:
o 36 participants from Gore for the 2019 event
o Local businesses that supported through weekly challenges and
sponsorship included: MLT, Noel Leeming Gore, Subway Gore,
New World Gore, Gore Aquatics Centre/Gore Multisport
Complexo Local clubs involved in the ‘have a go sessions’ were: Gore
Croquet Club, Wild Heart Yoga, Gore Golf Club and the Gore RSA
indoor bowling club.
• Ultimate Challenge:
o This event was run over five weeks of October and November to
find out which team of 10-12 people had the ability to compete
in five different sports to come out on top and be crowned the
Ultimate Team.
o This year we had a total of 58 people across five teams involved.
o This event is held at, and supported by, the MLT Event Centre.
o The MLT also support, sponsoring $300 worth of prizes for the
winners.
• The Sport Southland Events Team have supported events in the
Eastern area in a variety of ways. These include supporting guidance
on planning, implementation, evaluation processes, provision of
event equipment and traffic management. Below is a list of the
events that we have been involved with over the last six months:
o Sat 7th Sept: Gore District Youth Council test ‘Mud Run’ event,
Camp Columba.
o Fri 8th Nov: SBS Bank Tour of Southland: Stage 5 Invercargill –
Gore
o Sun 27th Nov: Southland Tri Club’s Summer Challenge, Heartland
Gore
o Sun 7th Dec: Gore Kids Hub Kids Triathlon & Colour Run, Kids
Hub/MLT Events Centre
o Thurs 19th Dec: Hokonui Radio’s Christmas Cash Giveaway, Irk
StreetLooking forward through to the end of 2019/2020:
• Participant Voice: We are looking to not only progress the ideas from the Eastern Sports Cafe, but ensure we regularly engage with the wider
sporting community and use their voice to co-design initiatives moving forward
• Organisational Capability: working with RSOs, clubs and schools to identify their needs and wants and how we can support them to upskill
• Sport Development: Engaging the voice of young people in Eastern Southland in order to develop physical activity opportunities that are accessible
and engage a diverse range of participants
• Hokonui Huanui: working alongside the leaders in the program to ensure we provide support regarding physical health and wellbeing
• Active Families: continue to attract new family referrals to this program to grow local knowledge regarding healthy eating and physical activity
• Event Support: continue to provide support as required to local events. Also help progress new events for the region (such as ParkRun) and
anything else as the community might desire. We intend to carry on helping to evaluate these events to ensure they meet the needs of the locals.Appendix 1: Articles written about Eastern Southland in the July – Dec 2019 reporting period.
• Eastern Southland to benefit from donated equipment - https://www.sportsouthland.co.nz/newsarticle/85121?newsfeedId=477512
• New programme making difference in lives of people with intellectual disabilities - https://www.sportsouthland.co.nz/newsarticle/82704?newsfeedId=477512
• Calder Stewart team eager to enter 2020 MLT Moonshine Trail -
https://www.sportsouthland.co.nz/newsarticle/82418?newsfeedId=477512&newsfeedPageNum=1
• People encouraged to nominate sporting success for Gore Community Awards - https://www.sportsouthland.co.nz/newsarticle/66594
• From Gore High to analysing Silver Ferns success - https://www.southlandsport.com/blog/2019/8/12/from-gore-high-to-analysing-silver-ferns-success?rq=Gore
• Tori Peeters aiming for Olympic javelin debut in Tokyo - https://www.southlandsport.com/blog/2019/9/22/tori-peeters?rq=ToriYou can also read
