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This strategy will allow Auckland City to be more proactive, collaborative and supportive of events that enliven the city.

The challenge for Auckland City is to manage growth and the change it brings, while still preserving the values, character and environment Aucklanders value.

Auckland City Libraries website

The Mainstreet 5-point programme contributes to Auckland City's economic, social, environmental and cultural wellbeing.

This policy aims to encourage and manage diverse, high quality street performance in Auckland's public spaces.

Auckland City has a vision, stated in its Strategic Plan, to make Auckland the First City of the Pacific. A priority is to build strong and healthy communities and to increase the numbers of people involved in sport, community and recreation activities. Swimming pools play an important role in achieving these goals and this strategy will help clarify how the council intends to achieve them.

Arts Alive is an Auckland City Council performing arts sponsorship programme which operates in partnership with full time performing arts professionals.

The Built Heritage Fund provides grants to help people conserve, restore and protect aspects of Auckland's built heritage. We provide total funding of $50,000 for built heritage each year.

Auckland City Council recognises that community groups, through their diverse range of activities, make a major contribution to our multicultural city. The community group assistance fund was created to support the processes and activities that enable people to get together and work to improve their communities.

Community Boards have a limited budget to provide grants at their discretion to assist community groups and other voluntary organisations operating within their communities.

The community board local fund was created to support the processes and activities that enable people to get together and work to improve their communities.  Funding is granted to increase the opportunities and choices of people of all cultures and incomes in community services and facilities, culture, leisure, sports and arts.

This policy covers small loans, medium loans and large loans for recreational, community, sporting, arts or cultural facilities that have local, citywide, regional or national significance in Auckland City.

The Creative Communities Scheme is a partnership between Creative New Zealand and local authorities, which supports opportunities for New Zealanders to actively participate in the arts. Auckland City Council administers the Scheme on behalf of Creative New Zealand for arts related projects that benefit the residents of our city.

The intention of this fund is to ensure free community driven events are resourced, and to allow greater flexibility of provision of local events utilising local knowledge.

Produced every three years, these 10-year plans must show what the council does and how it will work towards achieving community outcomes - the things the community has told us that they think are important for the city's future and wellbeing.

Auckland City Council has prioritised the support for building strong communities and citizen well being. The Marae Policy reflects Auckland City’s desire to work with communities and voluntary organisations.

Over 30 linear kilometres of historical material are held in the Auckland repository of Archives New Zealand.

This gallery brings a glimpse of history to light by showcasing some of the historical material  available. The holdings consist of public records created by government offices in the top half of the North Island.

Archives will highlight further themes in the future .

Celebrate the unique stories and secrets of Auckland and reflect on our city's natural, built and social history during the 2008 Auckland Heritage Festival.

Each week there is so much happening in our city - from free festivals to community markets, art exhibitions, dance, music, theatre and cultural performances, sport and leisure opportunities and more.

The new netball complex at Ngahue Reserve Mt Wellington is part of New Zealand's biggest urban renewal project at Tamaki Edge.  The project was undertaken as an Auckland Netball and Auckland City Council partnership, with Auckland City Council contributing nearly $7 million of the $13 million cost. The new complex will enable Auckland Netball to host major regional and national tournaments.