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AMP'd

Free sport and recreation for youth

The AMP’d crew turn local Manukau parks into a sweet place to hang with free sports, music and recreation. The innovative AMP’d programme is a youth initiative targeted at 11 to 17-year-olds in Manukau. It’s all about getting local youth active and engaged.

Drop in after school, 3.30pm – 6.00pm, at the following parks:
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
OTARA

Ferguson Oaks Park
Dawson Road, Otara		 CLENDON

Clendon Rec Reserve
Palmers Road, Clendon		 MANUREWA

Randwick Park
Riverton Drive, Manurewa		 PAPATOETOE

Allenby Park
Gt South Road, Papatoetoe		 MANGERE

Walter Massey Park
Massey Road, Mangere		 Available for youth
and community events

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Delivered by Manukau Leisure in association and made possible by the John Walker ‘Find Your Field of Dreams’ Foundation , AMP'd provides a range of programmes that helps create safer communities by providing alternative pathways for young people. AMP’d programmes engage and connect young people, and divert them from crime and anti-social behaviour by:

  • Encouraging pro-social behaviour in local parks
  • Targeting local ‘hotspots’ with attractive and positive activities for young people
  • Providing protection factors for young people so that they can better resist pressures to take part in harmful or anti-social behaviour
  • Increasing young people’s confidence, self esteem and organisational and social skills
  • Providing positive role models for the young people through locally recruited staff and local organisers leading the activities
  • Providing team building and leadership development opportunities
  • Decreasing the perception of fear and crime and anti-social behaviour amongst community
  • Encouraging safe competition among young people to help build a sense of pride in their local community
  • Improving health and wellbeing
  • Promoting doorstep sport; that is sport delivered at the right time, the right place and in the right style to engage young people and make sport accessible to those who live in the most deprived areas

    • We work closely with several Neighbourhood Policing teams, youth networks and community organisations to develop a cohesive model to collectively address issues faced by at risk youth, and to encourage pro-social behaviour in South Auckland.

    The AMP’d programmes include:

    • Drop-in afterschool sporting activities
    • Youth team building
    • Youth leadership
    • Holiday Programmes (Ages 14 - 17)
    • Skate Events
    • Community Events

    The AMP’d crew base themselves at Te Matariki Clendon Community Centre and Library. For more information contact us or get in touch with Pete, the AMP’d Manager on 027 283 9884 or email pete@ampd.org.nz