At the end of the day, our goal is a pretty simple one – to do whatever we can to make our community a happier, healthier place to live. Initiatives like ‘I Love New Brighton’ help us stay connected, while our sport and recreation programmes encourage the people of the east to live an active life. Education plays a crucial role. From teaching our kids how to be safe and confident in the water to sharing our knowledge of nutrition and fitness with people of all ages, we’re arming our community with vital skills. We have established and now treasure relationships with all of the schools within the eastern suburbs. We have developed a multi-purpose facility located on Rawhiti Domain (as per the Rawhiti Domain Management Plan) to meet a variety of leisure, sport and recreational needs of people in the New Brighton area. Specifically: • to ensure the sustainability of the umbrella organisation tasked with delivering community sports and recreation activity under the direction of a constitution that serves the needs of the founding clubs • to develop an appropriate funding plan that involves the sale of assets, provision of capital, removal of older buildings on the reserve and funding support from key Trusts, the Christchurch City Council and Lotteries Commission • to provide an active indoor sport and community space for a range of indoor/outdoor sport and fitness activities. A facility that delivers on our original intention for the Rawhiti Domain and favours a flexible, adaptable and potentially relocatable solution (in line with the reserves management plan) • to deliver a large and comprehensive range of sport and recreation programmes from the sport hall, courts and fields of the complex, starting with those that will provide opportunities for the founding clubs, but including those that will assist other similarly mandated organisations such as Sport Canterbury, Christchurch City Council, and other sport and programme providers.