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Auckland Council, Local Boards and YMCA Auckland servicing the health and fitness needs of the community YMCA Auckland is proud to announce continuing operations at six sites where they are the incumbent operator in five-year management contract with Auckland Council and Local Boards - encouraging health, fitness and a love for physical pursuits for all members of their local communities. Alongside these goals, lies the genuine desire of YMCA Auckland to provide community programming specific to local identified need, in a family centered environment. Auckland Council puts up selected council leisure and recreation sites for operations tender every five years, and in 2013, thirteen sites from their network were put to tender. Of these thirteen, YMCA Auckland was the incumbent operator at six sites. Through the tender process, YMCA defended the management contracts of these six sites and successfully gained four additional management contracts, enabling greater reach into Auckland communities to provide critical health and wellbeing programmes for all ages. YMCA will deliver meaningful, community-based programmes, as identified by local boards and community need, alongside general facility services. The Auckland Council sites defended were Mt Albert Recreation Centre, Ellerslie Recreation Centre, Sir William Jordan Recreation Centre (Onehunga), Lagoon Leisure & Fitness (Panmure), Lagoon Stadium (Panmure) and Massey Leisure Centre. The newly gained management contracts are for Onehunga War
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Memorial Pool, Glen Innes Pool, Cameron Pool and Lynfield Recreation Leisure Centre and will commence full management from 1 July. YMCA Auckland is a not-for-profit community organisation that offers programmes for children, teenagers and adults in and around Auckland and Hamilton. With a presence in Auckland for more than 150 years, YMCA centres have long provided the community with a vast range of recreational and sport programmes catering to all ages and abilities. Naturally aligning to Auckland Council’s Auckland Plan, the ‘People’ section states that council seeks to put children and young people first, improve the education, health and safety of Aucklanders’ with a focus on those most in need, and strengthen communities. YMCA Auckland has substantial programming aimed at developing children and young people, including ECE programmes, a nationwide youth leadership programme called Raise Up, and youth oriented activity within all centres. Improving the health of all Aucklanders is a top priority for the organisation, who facilitate practical programming including Never2Old, (a programme for elderly incorporating fitness, lifestyle and social outcomes) as well as partnering regularly with specialist organistaions, including Diabetes NZ and Pharmaco to pilot ‘Jump Start’, a targeted health programme for those with Diabetes. YMCA Auckland acts as a place for those in the community to encourage strong community spirit, through events, activations, health and sport programmes, youth programmes and the inclusive premises and selection of staff. As a community focused organisation, YMCA designs programming to meet the changing needs of our communities. Looking forward, a range of new programmes and initiatives designed to increase the accessibility of services and delivering benefit to communities will be at the forefront of plans for sites currently managed by YMCA and sites that YMCA will manage from July 1. Programmes and initiatives that are planned include providing fee assistance programmes to ensure that cost is not a prohibiting factor for participation of targeted groups and members in the wider community. Local families also have access to new YMCA Family Memberships, designed to bring families together in an inclusive environment and engage in physical recreation and healthy activity in a shared space. YMCA has also launched Family Camp, a cabin based camping programme designed to take families out of their normal walks of life and place them in an environment where they can share activities or simply spend quality time connecting as a family.
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Established in 1855, YMCA Auckland is not-for profit and is one the most enduring organisations in New Zealand. Its vision is to build strong kids, families and communities through fitness, swimming, recreation, childcare, accommodation, sport, youth programmes and camps across Auckland. YMCA Auckland: • Is the largest provider of out-of-school care and recreation services in New Zealand • Runs Raise Up, a youth development/leadership programme for youth, run by youth in Onehunga, Massey, Mt Albert and North Shore, with around 20,000 youths attending events annually and 180 volunteer crew members. • Has 3 camps: Camp Adair, Shakespear Lodge and Waiwera Lodge located in Auckland • Has a 130 bed YMCA Hostel and 100 room hotel City Lodge.