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CRNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2019 CRNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PAGE 1 Annual Report and Financial Statements for 12 months ending 31 December 2019 Canoe The Annual Report and Financial Statements will be presented at the Canoe Racing New Zealand AGM to be held at Lake Karapiro on 14 February 2019 CONTENTS Canoe Racing New Zealand Life Members Chair’s Report ................................................................................................................................................................................2 Ian Ferguson, Brett Leask, Paul MacDonald, Dennis Rae, Alan Thompson, John MacDonald CEO Report .....................................................................................................................................................................................3 CRNZ Board Jan Shearer (Chair) 2019 Results and Performances .......................................................................................................................................7 Matt Warren (Deputy Chair) Sport and Recognition Awards .........................................................................................................................................4 Melodie Robinson Hamish Reid Our Supporters ..........................................................................................................................................................................22 Stu Clark Gavin Sanderson 2019 Audited Financial Statements .............................................................................................................................23 Samantha Seath (resigned March 2019) Scott Bicknell (resigned August 2019) CRNZ Staff Tom Ashley – CEO Stacey Plowman – Finance Manager Polly Powrie – Operations Manager Aaron Osborne – Performance Development Manager Gordon Walker – Technical Director Nathan Luce – Coach Craig Mustard – Development Coach Tim Brabants –Coach Jasper Bats – Coach. Auditor Crowe Horwath Canoe Racing New Zealand 17 Antares Place, Rosedale, PO Box 65451, Mairangi Bay, Auckland 0754 Telephone +64 9476 8670 Email [email protected] www.canoeracing.org.nz PAGE 2 CRNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2019 CRNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PAGE 3 CHAIR’S REPORT CEO REPORT Jan Shearer Tom Ashley Chair Chief Executive Officer During my time on the Board Canoe Racing NZ, it has been a privilege to be involved 2019 was a year of change and growth for CRNZ. Whilst our high performance with such an exciting and vibrant organization and this year in the role of Chair it has team has continued to prepare for Tokyo 2020, others in our team of staff and been a pleasure to work with the team. The breadth of work, the complexity, the quality valued volunteers have been working to expand our focus beyond sprint racing of the people, and the opportunity to have an impact on our stakeholders’ paddling and build a more sustainable future for our sport and organisation. experiences and performance successes makes for a great challenge. We can reflect on the successes of our athletes, the to a high standard. Without volunteers, events would not 2020-2028 Strategy Canoe Racing team and the programmes we run, happen, so we thank all our volunteers for all your efforts. PARTICIPATION all supported by our funders and providers. This After a year-long process of consultation and learning, I would like to thank the Board for its time and energy being Olympic Games year, the High Performance we are now finalising CRNZ’s new 2020-2028 strategic and continued commitment to governance; and thanks to programmes’ priority is performing in Tokyo. While the plan. We developed the strategy by considering the all of those who give their time to our various committees athletes get all the kudos when it comes to results, I following: want to take the opportunity to thank Gordy, Tom, Jasper, outside of the Board. CRNZ Nathan and the wider high-performance team for their • The views of our community and stakeholders, as VISION: We are close to completion of a new Strategic Plan TO BE THE hard work and commitment. Without this team behind gathered through several rounds of consultation as for 2020 - 2028 which incorporates Participation, WORLD’S BEST our athletes and all their hard work, medals might not well as informal conversations; PADDLING NATION Performance and Engagement as its key pillars plus be possible. We wish those selected to represent NZ at ENGAGEMENT planning for the sustainability of the organization. • CRNZ’s purpose, as set out in our constitution; the Olympic Games the very best of luck and we look PERFORMANCE forward to seeing them represent New Zealand with the • Our context (opportunities and barriers); Our financial result for the year is positive so well done pride and commitment that we expect as a country. to the team and Stacey for the discipline and attention • Recent research and other information. required to remain within budget and meet all fiscal There has also been considerable progress in the requirements. Canoe Racing NZ’s outlook is very Our vision is to become the World’s best kayaking nation. The new strategy is set out in three pillars: athlete development space; the team have achieved positive having recently been elevated to Tier 1 status in We aspire to continued (and even greater) success Participation, Performance and Engagement. We a lot, including working to establish the Cambridge the HPSNZ structure. This provides additional funding for our athletes in all disciplines. But we will also aim believe that these are the areas in which we need to hub, source equipment for entry level programmes and security and organisational stability. to make New Zealand the best place to participate in succeed in order to achieve our vision. engage with the clubs and their coaches. kayaking, with great opportunities for kids to experience We hope to continue evolving and developing in the In the coming years, our reporting to our Each year there is a calendar of successful paddling our sport and for all kiwis to participate for fun, ever-changing environment we operate in and look membership and stakeholders will be based on events run around NZ that involves many volunteers and competition and wellbeing. forward to further achievements in all areas of our the new strategy. We will set targets annually and clubs – here in NZ organized sport is run predominantly operation. measure our success against these targets. by volunteers who give their time so willingly so that the events for our athletes run professionally, smoothly and PAGE 4 CRNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2019 CRNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PAGE 5 Organisation Performance Participation We have completed the restructure of our high Our athletes once again performed with distinction on In 2019 we started some exciting new initiatives to grow fund the development of the new learner kayak which is performance program. Gordon Walker has taken on the the World stage. Lisa Carrington dominated all season in participation in paddling. being used for Try, Learn, Explore. role of Technical Director, leading our coaching team and the K1, and our sprint athletes produced many fantastic support staff. performances, including a second successive World We have been working on the Try, Learn, Explore The Darcy Price Ocean Ski Series started in September Championship medal for Scott Martlew and a bronze paddling program, and in October we received funding 2019 and has so far been a great success. We have seen In the last year we have welcomed three new staff medal for Kurtis Imrie at U23 World Champs in the K1 from Aktive (Sport Auckland) to run a pilot in Auckland a number of new participants in our surfski races, and members at CRNZ, all based at our High Performance 500. in 2020. So far, some 350 kids have been introduced paddlers are excited about the opportunity to compete Centre in Karapiro: to kayaking through this initiative. We will continue in a national series. We look forward to the remaining Our sprint team is supported by an amazing group developing Try, Learn, Explore throughout 2020 in events and the series finale at Heads to Harbour in • Aaron Osborne joined us as Performance of coaches and support staff. We are grateful for the collaboration with clubs and other organisations. Our Whakatane on 25 April 2020. Development Manager, taking responsibility for commitment of all of these people behind the scenes. goal is to create a set of resources for clubs, coaches and athlete and coach development, and working on participants by the end of this year so that the program programs to promote participation in paddling. Our surfski and marathon athletes also made us proud. can be rolled out around NZ from 2021. We were represented by a large team at the World • Craig Mustard came on board in the new Champs in France, where Danielle McKenzie won her We are grateful for the support of Aktive and Kiwisport in Development Coach role, which will bridge the gap first World title. Garth Spencer and Vaughan Reed won funding this program. We are also extremely appreciative between our high performance program and clubs. the Master’s K2 Marathon World Title in China. of the support of Bridgewest Ltd, who contributed to Craig works with our men’s team and pathway program, and is involved in building our coach At junior level, we were represented by large teams at the development resources. Asia Pacific Sprint Regatta and Junior Worlds. We are • Tim Brabants arrived in January 2020 from the encouraged by the exciting talent coming through our UK with his family to join our program as