Who is Sport Aurora?

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Sport Aurora began as the Aurora Community Sport Council in 2005 when a group of representatives of seven Community Sport Organizations came together to discuss challenges and opportunities facing predominately youth sport in the Town of Aurora.

After the initial meeting, these organizations felt that there were common interests and reasons to continue meeting to develop a plan that would help all organizations in their missions of providing high-quality sport programs to the citizens of Aurora.

In 2006, the Aurora Community Sport Council implemented the first Municipal All-Candidates Meeting at the Royal Canadian Legion and this event brought not only the sport and recreation agenda to the municipal politician's attention, but brought together over 300 people to listen to the Candidate's opinion about sport and recreation and the value it had to the Town.

In 2007, the Aurora Community Sport Council developed a Strategic Plan that included a Mission, Vision and Beliefs statement and was incorporated as a non-share (not-for-profit) corporation with its own constitution.

As membership grew, so did support from the business community and so an affiliate membership (also known as sponsorship) category was added so that local businesses or organizations that had business or other relationships with sport were invited to join as ex-officio members.

For over 17 years now, Sport Aurora has grown from the seven original sport organizations to now 42 organizations in Aurora.  Sport Aurora is inclusive of all sport and represents these 42 sport organizations with a volunteer base of over 2,500 and a player base that approaches 10,000 people from the ages of 3 to 80 years of age in both genders.

Sport Aurora has participated in the development of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan and Pricing Policies that are now in place with the Town of Aurora.  The Town has called upon the membership numerous times to provide advice with respect to the direction of sport and Sport Aurora has now become the "voice" of Sport in the Town of Aurora.

OUR MISSION

Support and develop sport and recreation for all ages, genders and abilities by advocating on behalf of our community in order to build capacity, increase participation, enhance integration, celebrate excellence, and for the love of sport.

OUR VISION

Sport Aurora is committed to be a progressive, dynamic sport council that promotes, develops, and supports quality sport opportunities for all sport organizations.

OUR BELIEFS

• Sport and recreation are important and an integral part of the life of all ages, Aurorans, inclusive of all ages, genders and abilities.
• That sport and recreation are positive agents for change, physically, emotionally, socially and economically.
• Working together for the common good of sport and recreation.
• Providing sport, recreation and opportunities for all.
• Providing the benefits of participating in sport and recreation.
• Demonstrating honesty, integrity and respect in our roles as community leaders in sport.
• Encouraging a safe, healthy, friendly and fun environment for all in sport.
• Respecting all participants equally from the playground to the podium.
• Encouraging fair play and adhering to the spirit of the rules.
• Providing strong leadership support for our local sport organizations.
• Recognizing the importance of volunteers' contribution to sport.
• Celebrating participation successes and expertise.
• Working in partnerships, sharing resources and expertise both internally and externally.
• Develop, retain, and recognize competent, ethical, and certified coaches and officials.