Sport Wellington

Sport Wellington is a Regional Sports Trust which promotes, develops and supports sport, health, and active recreation in the wider Wellington region. A not-for-profit organisation, our purpose is to lead Wellington’s sport and active recreation community to enable people to be more physically active.
Sport Wellington provides regional leadership through building partnerships; sharing knowledge about sport, health and active recreation; providing subject matter expertise where required; and advocating on behalf of the sector in order to bring positive change to the region.

Sport Wellington is also involved in the health sector delivering on contracts with the three District Health Boards (Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley, Wairarapa) and ACC. Through the DHBs we deliver Green Prescription (GRx) programmes for adults (Adult GRx), pregnant women (Maternal GRx) and whanau (Pre-school and Active Families). These are free programmes to improve the health and wellbeing through physical activity/nutrition support.

With funding from ACC, Sport Wellington is the lead agency to support and grow access to Community Strength and Balance classes. This is part of the Live Stronger for Longer movement which aims to enable people and their whanau to be confident, injury-free and remain independent in their own homes.