Sport Canterbury sought to examine the leisure time preferences of a wide range of young people in Canterbury with a view to understanding how and why more young people might be engaged in higher levels of physically active leisure-time activities.
Outdoor recreation visitors have their say ~ National Visitor Survey 2004, 2005, 2006
New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) wanted to measure visitor satisfaction with recreation track quality and perceptions of visitor crowding across a representative sample of its 2050 easily accessible through to remote tracks. It also wanted to find out general demographic information about its visitors. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 it engaged GR (then Leisure Matters) to design and manage this research. A representative range of around 500 DOC sites were surveyed over three years.
Ngā Puna Wai sports hub consultation ~ Christchurch City Council
The destructive 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes severely damaged much of Christchurch’s sporting infrastructure. This included the main track and field, hockey and tennis facilities being damaged beyond repair.
Council staff investigated possible replacement locations for these facilities before arriving at their preferred option, a joint sports hub at Nga Puna Wai, 83 hectares of land beside Canterbury Agricultural Park in southwest Christchurch.