What Recreation has to Offer Other Sectors

What does Recreation have to offer to other Sectors? 

1. A highly rated infrastructure stretching from coast to coast to coast. The infrastructure is much more than hockey & curling rinks. It includes multipurpose arenas, leisure complexes with pools, arenas, fitness centres, indoor soccer fields, community meeting rooms, libraries and culture centres. outdoors there are parks, playgrounds, trails of all kinds, rodeo grounds, ball fields (baseball, soccer, football), skateboard parks, shooting ranges, tennis courts,outdoor basketball courts, golf courses, swimming pools, playgrounds, water parks, ...........what else
2. Trained staff 

   

   Path of the Paddle Ambassadors Paul Schram & Hadley Burns

3. Relatively stable financial base for Municipal Recreation Services
4. National, Provincial,Local and private sector funding
5. Volunteer infrastructure that includes front line coaches/instructors to policy wonks on Boards at all levels
6. The Sector is used to planning (master planning, strategic planning & needs assessments)
7. The Sector is comfortable with advocating and lobbying
8. Organizational frameworks at the National, Provincial and local levels (Provincial Associations with formal and informal partnerships)
9. Private sector involvement (Funders and sponsors)
10. The Benefits Hub (The Benefits of Recreation: Personal Benefits, Social Benefits, Economic Benefits and Environmental Benefits) 
11. The Leisure Information Network (The National Recreation Database +  )
12. An endorsed National Recreation Framework in place that aligns with the Sport Policy and the Active 2020 Policy 
13. Recreation has a delivery system that reaches the tiniest communities in Canada.
14. Recreation was built on a foundation of community development or community engagement and responding to social needs.

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