News
Creating Facilities and Environments with Impact for Young People
Necessity drives innovation, it is about opportunity. Potential is everywhere, but while some young people get every opportunity to explore theirs, others do not. Exploring two innovative initiatives to create impact or young people. Kathryn Morley, Chief Officer,...
Environments With Impact
To create impact, we need to focus on how do we put people first, we need to change our thinking, change the way we plan, build and operate programs, facilities and environments. This year’s National Sports & Physical Activity Convention (NSC22) will focus...
Re-defining and Leveraging Major Sporting Events to Benefit Community Participation
With a plethora of global championships over the next decade for Australia and New Zealand, what impact will these major events really have on participation? Post London Olympics 2012, the question of impact on participation was shown to be low. So what is Australia...
What Does Sustainability Mean to You?
Four key industry Thought Leaders have collaborated with our Gold Partner, Rubner Holzbau, partner of Theca Timber, to explore why they think it is critical to our industry and our community's future. This episode includes; Anthony Uahwatanasakul (K20 Architecture);...
NSC Global Thought Leaders Latest Podcast
Claire Poole will be joining NSC this year virtually, sharing her latest thinking on sport and Climate Change and the Economic Opportunities for Sport and Government. Her weekly global podcasts interview, The Climate of Sport, features key sustainability and climate...
Environmental Footprint for Sports Fields
The narrative about the Environmental Footprint that many community groups are concerned about, we are featuring an expert panel to explore what this means with the circular economy. Three expert speakers will provide an understanding of a circular economy and what...
Sport and Recreation Expo Provides So Much More
The NSC Sport and Recreation Expo will be the home of the delegates, peak bodies, collaborators over the two event days. We are excited to be able to share that the Sport and Recreation Expo Hall will offer delegates: 70+ Exhibitors and Peak Bodies National Peak Body...
Climate Change and Sport
Following on the past decades increased understanding of climate change from the broad community, we have seen a significant interest in how sport is both being impacted by and can influence climate change. The recent floods and heavy rain on the East Coast of...
Australian Kids Participation in Physical Activity Continues to Lag Behind the World
Within our industry we all appreciate that physical activity is vitally important for child health, development, learning and the future of participation in sporting pathways for the next 20 years. So why are we lagging behind the rest of the world? Since the...