Parklands Cricket

📌 PUSC Club Statement 📌

From the 2025/26 cricket season, Parklands United Sports Club will no longer operate cricket within our community.

Cricket will instead be delivered by the newly formed Parklands Cricket Club. Parklands Cricket Club has the support of both the Christchurch Junior Cricket Association (CJCA) and Parklands United Sports Club, and will maintain cricket's presence in Parklands and the wider Christchurch sporting community.

We expect Parklands Cricket Club to continue providing quality cricket experiences for our community and wish all players well for the upcoming season.

For more information please visit www.parklandscricket.co.nz; Parklands Cricket Club or email [email protected]

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New Zealand Sport is leading an important initiative in response to the proposed Online Casino Gambling Bill, which is currently progressing through Parliament.

A collective group of National Sporting Organisations (NSOs), including NZ Football and NZ Netball, has engaged Martin Snedden to coordinate a nationwide effort to highlight the significant risks this Bill poses to community sport funding.

To put it in perspective for football, approximately $19 million in grants is distributed annually across the game, with $14.5 million going directly to clubs. If the proposed changes proceed without amendment, this critical funding—much of it generated through Class 4 gambling (“pokies”)—could be significantly reduced or lost altogether.

Funding from Class 4 gambling is critical to Parklands United Sports Club across all our codes with it contributing a large part of our revenue each year, enabling us to provide and deliver grassroots programmes, so, in its absence or its significant reduction, how the club is run would look entirely different, including a huge increase in subscription fees!

📌 Why this matters: 📌

New online gambling operators would not be required to share any proceeds with communities

A reduction in traditional pokies revenue is likely, which could reduce available community grants

This is our opportunity to ask Parliament to require that online gambling also benefits the community, as land-based gambling does

📌 What You Need to Know: 📌

Submissions on the Bill close on 17 August and can be completed at https://www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeSubmission/54SCGOA_SCF_15AF0468-FAB5-4BFD-AB1D-08DDB77FF1E9/CreateSubmission

While NZ Football, Mainland Football, Christchurch Netball and clubs will be making official submissions, it is vital that individuals also submit their own, highlighting how this funding supports your specific activities, programmes, and people.

We urge you to treat this as a priority issue. A high volume of well-informed, locally relevant submissions will help ensure the voice of community sport is clearly heard by decision-makers.

🚗 Parklands Reserve Parking 🚗

Over the last few weeks we have seen an increase in people using the Car Parks at Parklands Reserve inconsiderately.

We understand that at times car parking can be limited when the reserve, clubrooms or community centre are in use (sometimes all 3 at once!), but we must ensure that we use the car park and parking spaces correctly.

All parking should be in a designated parking space. If none of these are available then parking should be made legally on the roadside or just down Queenspark Drive slightly at the other car park area.

Under no circumstances should you block someone in and double park or park in the disabled parking bay (unless you have the required documentation to do so).

We have had a number of instances of this happening recently. If it continues to happen then you may find we may need to take action to remove the offending vehicles.

Please ensure that we respect and are considerate to our other club members.