GM Executive Summary

PCYC Queensland’s Indigenous Programs Team proudly delivers its tenth and final Annual Report which highlights the achievements of the Indigenous Community Sport and Recreation Program (ICSRP). The past 13 years have heralded a strong working partnership between PCYC and the Queensland Government to work across 38 communities to develop and deliver a range of sporting, recreation and cultural activities that support young people and their community to become healthier and safer.

The unique and dynamic proposition of the Indigenous Community, Sport and Recreation Program effortlessly allowed its grass-roots delivery across so many different and changing environments. The metropolitan, regional and remotely based program models could be delivered from a community building, a municipal park, a school oval or on a beach. The diversity of participation experiences offered across the ICSRP sites managed by PCYC Queensland is evidenced by the 79 various activities/programs or event initiatives delivered across 35 communities with some 8,518 sessions attracting approximately 193,965 participation episodes over the past 13 months.

These communities have directly influenced the evolution of this program. The ICSRP has had the benefit of numerous staff working at all levels to design, influence and facilitate the numerous strategies seen over the past 13 years of delivery under the current program framework. The scope for achievement of the ICSRP extended across numerous strategies created through the experience, knowledge, and creativity of our statewide staffing team. Above all, the ICSRP was a portable experience which afforded multi-dimensional opportunities for capability development and participation experiences. This was further enhanced through the establishment of the PCYC ‘Active Communities Tomorrow’ small grants program, purchase of service arrangements to ensure that State/National sporting agencies and private contractors were directly delivering their product to Community. This in addition to, or in some circumstances as an alternative to, having a static Sport and Recreation Officer installed within each program location. I take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank each and everyone of our PCYC ICSRP Team members from the Sport and Recreation Officers on-the-ground within each location through to the regional and state ICSRP Administration staff who were the engine driving the guidance and support to each location’s delivery of the program. Numerous employment opportunities have been afforded through this program which has served as a stepping stone for longer-term employment opportunities for many of our ICSRP staffing team. The hours of dedicated program delivery that these staff were responsible for is outstanding and appreciated. Like any successful team everyone had a position/role they needed to play to make the program work. This presented challenges from time to time but due to the ever-present passion and positive attitudes of our ICSRP team, a solution was always arrived at to ensure that the local community always received the benefit of this program for their members. I would like to especially acknowledge and thank my ICSRP Administration Team for the hard work and vision shared over the past 13 years as it was vital to driving the outcomes realised. The team served as a means of building strong and lasting relationships with many Queensland communities that ordinarily would not have experienced a PCYC service delivery platform.

PCYC Queensland is very grateful for the many communities, government and corporate partners and supporters that have been a part of the delivery of the ICSRP. Your input and enthusiasm has been indispensable – THANK YOU!