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Working with sports clubs and associations to ensure their sport is delivered in a sustainable and valued way. We are able to facilitate a variety of opportunities to enable sports to offer a better service to their members.
Clubs and associations often do not have the inclination, time or expertise to develop or position their organisation with a view to the long-term viability of themselves. Canterbury West Coast Sports Trust has been working in a number of these areas over the years and built a wealth of knowledge and experience that clubs and associations can use to ensure they have a future. There are a variety of different things that clubs can do improve themselves, but as many are operating just to survive season to season, the things that can be done to ensure a sustainable future fall by the wayside.

Coaches are a vital component to sport in New Zealand. The aim is to provide quality opportunities for coaches to develop and improve their knowledge, methods and performance.

ClubMark assists sports clubs to become viable, healthy and injury free through auditing and advisory services.
ClubMark is an initiative developed by Healthy Sports Clubs Christchurch made up of Sport Canterbury, ACC, Christchurch City Council, Community and Public Health and Haura Matauraka.

An often forgotten part of sport, officials are an essential component of any sport in New Zealand.
Officials are anyone involved in the enforcement, evaluation or organisation of the "rules of the sport".

Ensuring sport has access to quality training opportunities to up skill the people that make sport happen.
From the volunteers that are vital to running of sports clubs and associations, to injury prevention for team managers, volunteer training offers many different courses, programmes and services.