Raising money for an Indoor Multi-Sport Stadium at Waipapa, for use by the whole Bay of Islands.
The community will benefit by
Helping the youth of the Bay of Islands
Substantial revenue from visiting teams
Providing a dry land activity for visitors to the Bay of Islands
BaySport on target for sports stadium - Chronicle, March 2002
Fundraising for a multisport stadium at Waipapa has reached its initial
$100,000 target. In December last year BaySport Inc set this target as its seed funding for the much needed Kerikeri sports facility.
The push was given urgency late last year because of the need for a new home for Bay of Islands Inline Skating, now Northland Inline Skating, which was losing its home base of the past five years, a packing shed.
To be built under the auspices of BaySport, the proposed facility will cater
also for basketball, badminton and indoor soccer. The site is the parking
area at the BaySport playing field off Waipapa Road.
BaySport Inc is a registered charitable society.
The estimated cost of the entire project is $750,000. Fundraising co-ordinator Phil Pielak Jones said last week he was thrilled by
the attitude of many people who were approached to support the project but shocked by the negative attitude of a few others.
"It was a tough job but it looks as if we have done enough to apply for
grants from charitable organisations such as the Lottery Grants Board."
Phil and his wife Deanna, founder members of Bay of Islands Inline Skating, are moving to the South Island, where Deanna has a job teaching figure skating. The Northland Inline Skating Club has enough money to start excavation and is applying to other funding sources such as the community board, hoping to start construction soon.
In the meantime twelve year old Kerikeri High School student Martin Lee, a Kerikeri inline hockey player, has been selected for an Auckland Ice Hockey team that will leave for Canada next week to compete in an international ice hockey tournament.
Martin, an inline hockey player for the Northland Stingrays plays ice hockey during the summer and joins in with practices during the year when he is in Auckland. He was introduced to ice hockey when an opposing inline team invited him along after a game one weekend and then to practice the next morning.
The team, Kiwi Raiders, will travel to Vancouver for training, staying with billet families, then to Kelowna for the tournament.
Martin hopes the BaySport stadium will be built early this year:
"We have good skaters in our club, but they need a decent place to
practise."
Ways you can contribute Gold sponsorship: $1500 Advertising space around the scoreboard (only 8 available) Or $1,250 Advertising space around the stadium wall Bronze sponsorship: $50 Floor square & name on a bronze sponsorship board. Naming rights for the whole building: $50,000?
For more information contact
Wayne Scott 09 404 0011 (home) 09 404 1529 (work)
Please make all cheques payable to BaySport Inc
And post to P.O. Box 304, Kerikeri
(BaySport is a registered Charitable Society; Law North Partners hold all the funds in trust until the project commences)
