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:

Check out the AMP'd Bebo site

Delivered by Manukau Leisure in association and made possible by the John Walker ‘Find Your Field of Dreams’ Foundation and The Southern Trust, AMP’d responds to SPARC research which shows that about half the youth in New Zealand don't play any sport. Of those who participate in sport, a third drop out between the ages of 13 and 17 years.

The AMP’d programme has three aspects:

• Drop-in activities in Manukau parks
• Youth team building
• Youth leadership programme

The parks programme serves to make a connection with local youth. It also provides a platform where talented sports people can be identified and introduced to sports clubs. From there participants are fed through to a youth team-building programme run by Manukau on the Move that offers activities like kayaking, rock climbing and mountain biking. After that, for selected youth, there is the potential to enter leadership development training run in conjunction with Youthline.

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