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New Zealand Wheelchair Rugby NEW ZEALAND WHEELCHAIR RUGBY Annual Repo rt 2OLG|?:OL7 & NEW ZEALAND WHEETCHAIR RUGBY Committee President Nicholas Heyworth Treasurer/Portfolio Jane Cotter-Finance Secretary/Portfolio Cherie Porter*High Performance Genera I Com m ittee/Portfolio Cameron Leslie-Media Marinda Jones-Community Roly Blakeway- Business Mike Todd (inactive)- Development Yvonne Mackie-Competition Management Head Coach Andrew Chittock Com petition Coordinator Yvonne Mackie Head Official Scotty Clouston Julius Head Classifier Sara Edwards Head Bench Bevin Jenkinson Selectors Greg Mitchell Grant Sharman Administrator (.5) Jo O'Callaghan Auditors Crowe Horwath Auckland Bankers ANZ Bank Hamilton PostalAddress c/- BWCA PO Box 9922 Newmarket Auckland 1149 New Zealand & PRESIDENT REPORT As we approach the 201.7 NZWR AGM it gives you, the membership, the opportunity to assess the work of the Committee you have elected. Below is a summary of the key areas of work we have achieved this year. 2017 Achievements . NZ Wheelchair Rugby community has hosted another National league of successful tourna- ments. The Bash, Low Pointers, Ken Sowden Cup, WRCs and Nationals. Through feedback, planning and delivery of future events will continue to improve. The Wheel Blacks had a period of consolidation with less travel, new faces have come on board to support the programme, and support individuals'growth and development. Results are positive, as well as the culture within the team and greater development squad. Zonals provides us with a great opportunity to showcase our sport to NZ. SkyTV and other me- dia agencies are on board for us to re-capture the imagination and support of NZers. We aim to gain a placing in the 2018 IWRF World Championship, with the team in great shape. Relationships with key partners, The Rugby Foundation and NZ Spinal Trust, have been re- established. Both organisations indicate strong interest on future collaboration in develop- ment of educational resources and player recruitment. Wheelchair Rugby is the showcase sport at the 20L7 Halberg Junior Disability Games in Auck- land, 6th - 8th of Oct, hosting over 100 disabled athletes from the North & South lslands. Social Grading continues to be reviewed to find the best solution to make our game accessi- ble, fair and enticing. Please present your ideas to the Committee, a sub-committee will be formed to support Social Grading ongoing. The focus on club development will be key going forward. The rejuvenation of this essential part of the sport will be a priority going forward. We want to be fit for purpose as a sport and as a Committee. The continued review and devel- opment of our Governance through policy review will be a focus of the Committee. This will in turn lead to the development of a new Strategic Plan to allow the Committee, the member- ship and the sporting sector know what we are aiming to achieve, and how we aim to achieve it. It has been a honour to be your President for the best part of 2017. My wish is to continue and I hope you feel we, the Committee, are steering the sport in the right direction. Nicholas Heyworth TREASURER REPORT It is a pleasure to present the Treasurer's Report to the members of NZWR, based on the final audited accounts for the year to 31 December 20L6. This year we received income of 5196533 of which S1SZSSZ came from the Pin & Win series managed by Appco , $0+00 from Player Levies , grants of $13132 from various community organisations and S10000 from The Rugby Foundation. Total expenses of $22a768|eft a deficit of $28235 for the year. Travel accounted for the bulk of the expenses this year including 578000 to the France qualifier Cup, Local competition costs accounted for 523500, costs associated with Pin & Win Fundraising of 555625 and administration costs of 530000. At 31 December 2016 the cash position was S280000,of which 5228795 was on inter- est earning term deposit. r As reported last year Appco suspended the Series 3 Pin & Win campaign in Septem- ber 20l.6,due to internal issues. ln March 20L7, however, they recommenced the campaign and funds are steadily coming in. This could produce up to a maximum of 5L00000 if all 30000 pendants are sold. This income will be reported in the financial year to 31 Decemb er 20t7. r We anticipate this will be the last campaign run with NZWR as a beneficiary and we face the challenge of finding other funding or sponsorship to replace this source of in- come. ln this regard Jo our administrator has been very active this year applying for a large number of grants from community funders/trusts and we have been reasonably suc- cessful, however these applications are incredibly time consuming to collate with no certainty. Nick Heyworth has also been very proactive on the associations behalf in attempting to raise awareness of the sport in our community to try and develop longer term asso- ciations and sponsorship to replace Pin & Win Jane Cotter & HEAD COACH REPORT 2AL7 has seen NZWR support the reestablishment programme that has us rebuilding our squad with our eyes firmly focused on qualifying and medalling at the 2O2O Paralympics in Tokyo, then as "Gold Medal- lists" in 2024. 2017 has been focused on identifying and introducing new and eager talent into the Wheel Black scene, firstly through our training camps and then the team that has and will compete at international events. We have also placed a heavy focus on recruiting the necessary and highly talented resources for our "High Perform ance Program me". To Brent Membery, Kath Fouhy and Michael Hynard (Hashtag), thank you for your involvement and con- tributions. Without your generous contribution of time and effort there is no way our team would be de- veloping at the rate we are. ln 2016 | mentioned that it was an aim to take our training camps to the regions to offer New Zealand public an opportunity to see our National team in action. h 2AL7 we have had training camps in Auckland, Napier, Hamilton and Christchurch. Although the logistics have been a challenge for Jo and Sacha to or- ganise, they have achieved this goal admirably. ln May we played the Ken Sowden Cup, a 5 game series against Australia. Canterbury kindly offered to host this tournament and for that I am very grateful. Our goals, of introducing and developing new play- ers into the squad/team, then on to international competition was successful with some players stepping up and proving their value. We had two very competitive games, losing the first in a double over time, learning from that loss, and going on to win the second competitive game. I also mentioned that we were looking at entering a Wheel Black / New Zealand team into the Australian league as well as inviting lnternational teams to enter into our local competitions. Working to a planned saw the Wheel Blacks enter into two rounds of the Australian league- the Gold Coast and the Sydney round. At the time of me writing this report we had only attended the Gold Coast round. Due to an unfor- tunate accident at the LLth hour, t was unable to attend the Gold Coast tournament. Gavin, Robbie and Cameron along with the support of Sacha, Kelly, Zuzana and Greg took over and with great groundwork from the full programme team, they came away as undefeated winners. To those in the squad, players and the support team, you deserve all you success you achieved. I wish to thank Sacha Wright who undertook the project manager and team manager roles, I know it was a very sharp learning curve and a sometimes very frustrating position, but you prevailed and I know you have implemented processes that willonly benefit us in the future. A big thank you to Jo O'Callaghan and the NZWR Committee who have supported myself and the Wheel Black squad with our vision for the development and future of our sport. To all our volunteers, whether you contributed with organising, bench officiating, refereeing, caring, vide- oing, mechanics, I also owe you a huge thank you and I am ever gratefulfor your time and efforts. Lastly to Kelly, without your support and contributions over the last 3 years I would not have been able to be involved to the extent that is necessary for a new coach to learn and develop, and in turn pass on a successful programme and environment to a young and very exciting team - not only now but in the fore- seeable future. For allthis and more, lthank you. Andrew Chittock & CLASSI FICATION R E PORT Active Classifiers: Sara Edwards Level4 lnternational Head Classifier New Zealand Binnie O'Dwyer Level 4lnternational Deborah Bowditch Level 4 lnternational Brendon Vercoe Level 3 lnternational Gina lsbister Level 3 lnternational Kate Truman National National Classifi cations 2016/2017 wRC2 2016 Glenn McDonald Bay of Plenty 1.0(R) 1.0(1) Jake Spooner Wellington New 0.s(1) Rose Vaea Wellington New 3.0(R) Nationals 2016 Mike Natzke Canterbury 2.s(T) 2.s(2) Blair Whittiker Waikato New 2.0(R) Nat Manville Manawatu New 0.5(1) wRCl 2017 Tyler Jennings Hawkes Bay 2.s(1) 3.0(1) Lui Te'o Auckland New 2.s(t) Dave Tai Bay of Plenty 1.0(1) 0.5(1) wRC2 2017 Amanda Lowry Bay of Plenty r.s(1) 1.s(2) lan Simpson Canterbury New 0.5(1) Christopher Barry Wellington 3.s(R) 2.s(t) Marinda Jones Hawkes Bay 2.0(P) 2.0(P) xfl@EEcilni|,@ CLASSI Fl CATION R EPORT.. conti n ued Classifi er Development: Kate Truman has been trained in 2017 (WRC 1 and WRC2) and is now a Nationalclassifier.
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