Halberg Trust

OUR PURPOSE

The Halberg Trust aims to support all children with a disability if they want to be involved in active leisure or recreation of their choice, alongside their peers in an inclusive environment.

WHAT WE DO

Our Sport Opportunity Programme is delivered by Sport Opportunity Advisers within the Regional Sports Trusts located nationwide. The programme is all about encouraging and enabled people with a disability to participate with their peers in an inclusive environment as they develop within a sporting or creational pathway. The major objective is to provide people with the skills and confidence for inclusion into sport and active leisure.

The Halberg Trust Activity Fund provides grants to young people living with a disability who want to be involved in sport and leisure – this can be equipment or lessons; for example, swimming lessons, tennis lessons, customised trikes, trampolines, etc.

The main goal of the Activity Fund is to support activities that are regular, ongoing, build skills and confidence, remove barriers and are fun. The Activity Fund is available to support the additional costs associated with having a disability, that is the costs over and above what a non-disabled child or their parents would be reasonably expected to pay.

We work with the community to ensure that all disabled people have the choice to be involved in all community events, we also work with schools to enable disabled children to have the same sporting, physical education and active leisure opportunities as their peers. We also provide No Exceptions Training for sports clubs and organisations. The Sport Opportunity Adviser in the 17 regions are responsible for coordinating the No Exceptions Training. The Training is aimed at teachers, classroom support staff, sports coaches, leaders and sport development officers, universities, colleges, senior school students and more. These workshops aim to increase community sport awareness to include people with a disability in active leisure opportunities.

No Exceptions Training
Module 1 – Count me in – is a general workshops for everyone interested or involved in the provision of sport and active leisure opportunities that include people with a disability

Module 2 – Getting ready for school – a sport, physical education and disability awareness workshop focusing on the inclusion of young people with a disability into school-based sport and physical activity programmes

Module 3 – Opening doors for people with a disability – a practical workshops that assists sport and recreation organisations to develop strategies to attract and retain people with a disability as members

Module 4 – Play by the rules – a workshop that helps sport and recreation organisations to understand and deal with issues of disability discrimination and meet their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

Module 5 – What is disability sport? A practical workshop that demystifies what disability sport is all about, and covers issues relating to classification and Paralympic sport. This is a feeder workshop for Diability Sport Contact Officers and/or classifiers

Module 6 – Inclusive Coaching – a coach-orientated workshop that enhances current knowledge and promotes the inclusion of athletes with a disability.

CONTACT DETAILS

Halberg Trust
NZTBA Building
Gate 8, Morrin Street
Ellerslie Racecourse
Ellerslie, Auckland

Postal address:
PO Box 11-487
Ellerslie
Auckland
 
ph (09) 579-9931  
fax  (09) 579-9936 
email  office@halberg.co.nz
website www.halberg.co.nz

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