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Goals set for sports project
posted: 12 September 2011 Sport Thought with Brent Eastwood
Sport Northland is now one year into its latest strategic plan that has set the direction for the organisation through until 2015. At the time of approving the plan, the Board purposely did not include any measures of the key goals of the plan, due to the lack of baseline data and lack of clarity about what organisations and activities were to be worked with.
We now know exactly which sports, communities, early childhood centres (ECCs), schools, recreation activities and clubs that will be the focus of most of our resource over the next two years. And we have also collected a whole host of data from these organisations and activities, which has been used as baseline measurements of where they are currently at. Data will be collected again in another year and again in two years, which when compared to the baseline data will provide hard evidence of whether the support provided to these organisations and activities has been effective or not.
This baseline data has enabled the Sport Northland Board to recently develop and approve some key measures for the goals set one year ago.
For the big goals of Sport and Recreation, an increase of 10% has been set on participation levels of targeted sports, schools, clubs and recreation activities. For the Sport goal, this will include two measures; one increasing the number of Northlanders participating in the targeted sports and schools; and one increasing the number of deliveries of fundamental movement skills to under 12 year olds.
And for Recreation, a 10% increase has been set for the number of Northlanders participating in targeted recreational settings, activities and events.
The third goal is about Sport Northland developing and maintaining effective relationships, and the Board has set a target of an 80% satisfaction level from Sport Northland’s major stakeholder groupings (a baseline of 76% was achieved in 2009).
The goal of effective and efficient internal capability of the organisation will be measured by SPARC’s capability assessment score. The Board has a goal of being rated in the ‘high performing’ category (a score of 70% or more), up from the current 69% (‘sustainable’ category), which placed the organisation top equal amongst regional sports trusts across the country.
The last goal is one that any organisation must strive for, that of financial viability. The development of Sport Northland’s new ASB Northland Sports House has all but drained the organisation’s financial reserves, so the Board has set the difficult goal of accumulating $280,000 in reserves by 2015.
While the above goals will be challenging to say the least, they have set the organisation some really lofty targets to strive for in our dream of ‘creating a more active Northland’.
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