Active Recreation

Active: Your Way

What is Active Recreation?​​​​​​​

Active recreation is all about choice. It is flexible, self-led, and shaped around what works for you. Everyone moves differently, for different reasons - that is the point.

Active Recreation can happen anywhere, at home or school, in your community, or out in nature. It might be a surf after school, shooting hoops with mates, hitting the gym, walking a trail, going to a dance class, or just getting out and moving in a way that suits that day.

Active Recreation is part of a wider shift towards more flexible ways of being active, where there is more choice in how people move and participate.

Source: Sport NZ

Active: Your Way ​​​​​​​

Active: Your Way brings active recreation in Taranaki to life.

This video showcases what active recreation looks like for rangatahi across our region. Real moments of movement shaped by choice, environment, and what feels right for them. It captures the many ways young people get active in everyday spaces, from the moana and awa through to local trails, dance studios, skateparks, and the gym floor.

It reflects the idea at the heart of active recreation that there is no one way to move, it is about finding what works for you.

Through the people, places, and programmes that make these experiences possible, Active: Your Way shows what makes being active in Taranaki special.

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Behind the Scenes

The Active: Your Way  video was created collaboratively and this clip goes behind the scenes with our Youth Media Team capturing how the project came together from early ideas through to filming and final production.

It shows what can happen when young people are meaningfully involved, supported by professionals, and given space to share their ideas, energy, and perspective.

Together these videos show not just what active recreation is, but what it can look and feel like, and who it is for.

Contact Person

Jasmin Carr

Active Recreation Advisor

jasmin.carr@sporttaranaki.org.nz

Phone: 027 946 3855 ​​​​​​​


Want to get active? 

There are plenty of things to do in Taranaki

Discover active recreation by going to our activity hub below.