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Joint Appeal By Amateur Sport Association And Community Networks Aotearoa Inc. To Members Of Parliament

Friday, 26 January 2024, 10:55 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The ASA and CNA appeal to all Members of the 54th Parliament of New Zealand to prioritise a review of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 and the Charities Act 2005 in order to ensure the survival of not-for-profit and volunteer-led community organisations, ... More >>

Time Is Of The Essence For ICSOs

Monday, 13 November 2023, 12:08 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

There’s only 28 months for incorporated community sport organisations (ICSOs) to re-register under the Incorporated Societies Act 2022, or otherwise face involuntary dissolution at the dispassionate hand of the Registrar of Incorporated Societies. ... More >>

Kiwis Are Increasingly Engaging More Casually In Sport Clubs

Friday, 13 October 2023, 6:25 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The 2023 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS) reveals that New Zealand’s sport clubs are increasingly catering for casual members. This is in contrast to the decades-old tradition of members paying an annual (or seasonal) subscription to belong. Over ... More >>

YMP Hockey Club Wins Matariki Award On Centenary Weekend

Thursday, 13 July 2023, 5:22 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Inc. is pleased to announce that the 2023 Te Tohu Tiketike o Matariki award has been won by the YMP Hockey Club, (Gisborne), as it celebrates the centenary of its founding, 100 years ago. The winner of the ... More >>

Survival Of Incorporated Community Sport Organisations Essential

Friday, 31 March 2023, 5:47 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

In a meeting between the Association and the Minister of Commerce & Consumer Affairs at Parliament on Tuesday, it was agreed that the survival and future growth of New Zealand’s over 7,500 community sport clubs should not be impeded by the ... More >>

Sport Clubs Report Stability In 2022, But Work Ahead On Legislation And Council Relations

Friday, 14 October 2022, 11:31 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The 2022 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS) reveals that clubs nationally appear to have coped with the COVID pandemic, but face new challenges as they look ahead to a changing regulatory environment. 10% of clubs reported losing money in 2022 ... More >>

NZ Amateur Sport Association And Minister Agree On Regulatory Approach

Friday, 30 September 2022, 8:11 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

In a positive and collaborative meeting with the Association on 29 September, the responsible Minister (the Hon. Dr. David Clark) agreed that the regulations of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 will need to accommodate the needs of New Zealand’s ... More >>

New Award Celebrates Aotearoa’s Newest Public Holiday

Thursday, 23 June 2022, 9:58 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Inc. is pleased to announce that the inaugural Te Tohu Tiketike o Matariki award has been won by Ōtaki Surf Life-Saving Club Inc. (OSLSC).  The winner of the inaugural award was announced today by Association ... More >>

Small Sport Clubs To Be Spared Financial Reporting Pain

Friday, 5 November 2021, 7:37 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Select Committee Agrees To Material Association Recommendation Parliament's Economic Development, Science and Innovation Select Committee has agreed to a material Association recommendation concerning the Incorporated Societies Bill, which will result in small ... More >>

Sport Clubs Are Surviving, Women And Girls’ Inclusion Still Work In Progress

Friday, 1 October 2021, 9:02 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The National Sport Club Survey (NSCS) is an annual snapshot of the management and operation of sport clubs. 2021 is the fourth year for the project, which is undertaken in collaboration between the New Zealand Amateur Sport Association (NZASA) and the ... More >>

New Zealand Community Sport Hit By Mass Dissolutions

Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 12:15 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

For the first time in New Zealand’s long and celebrated sporting history, nearly two hundred community sport entities were gazetted by the Registrar of Incorporated Societies on 19 August 2021 as no longer having incorporated (legal) status. In total, ... More >>

The Law Of Unintended Consequences

Thursday, 5 August 2021, 12:31 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association is calling out the Government for creating a law of unintended consequences with reforms to the Incorporated Societies Bill. In a submission to the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee, Association ... More >>

New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Fears For Future Of Community Sport Organisations

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 12:24 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The passage of the Incorporated Societies Bill into law is likely to result in unintended consequences for community sport organisations (CSOs) in New Zealand, which have not been fully considered in the drafting of the legislation, according to the New ... More >>

New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Calls On The Government To Enable Affordable Access To Community Sport Clubs

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 5:54 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

New Zealand’s Children’s Commissioner has reported that 21% of New Zealand children (236,048) live in low-income households, with over 13% (146,125)experiencing material hardship. It is government policy to halve these statistics over the next seven years. ... More >>

New Zealand Amateur Sport Association 2020 National Sport Club Survey

Friday, 9 October 2020, 8:48 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Tough Road Ahead For Sport Clubs: COVID-19 Financial Pain & Membership Shrinking Insights from the 2020 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS) are now available. Over 1,100 sport clubs responded across80 sports and all 17 regions of New Zealand.The ... More >>

2020 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS)

Sunday, 30 August 2020, 2:34 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association and AUT’s Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand are working in partnership to deliver the 2020 NSCS, which launches on Monday, 31 August. This is the third year of this important national ... More >>

Amateur Sport Association Calls For Clear Guidelines On When It Will Be “O.K. To Play”

Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 11:51 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

When will we be able to say, “it’s O.K. to play?” Defining what a “safe” environment is for community sport will be top-of-mind for parents, spouses and partners of sportspeople, and for sportspeople themselves, once the community sport ban is ... More >>

Student Sport For Sale

Friday, 6 March 2020, 8:29 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Recent media reports indicating that the rights to broadcast certain student sport competitions have been sold by New Zealand secondary school sport’s governing body, underscores the increasing alarm over decreasing teenage participation in sport and ... More >>

Future of Amateur Sport “In The Balance”

Thursday, 14 November 2019, 11:47 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Results of the 2019 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS), recently undertaken by the New Zealand Amateur Sport Association (NZASA) and Auckland University of Technology’s Sport Performance Research Institute of New Zealand (SPRINZ), reveal that many people ... More >>

New Code promoted for sporting youth

Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 4:45 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Inc. encourages National Sporting Organisations (NSO) to adopt a new Code which places youth at the centre of decision-making involving their sporting participation. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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