Gareth Moore-Jones

Ohope Beach

Gareth has been involved in the sector for 30-years and has been CEO of NZ Recreation Assn, National Sport & Recreation Manager for NZ YMCA, interim CEO of Outdoors NZ, and as public health planner in the health sector which provided Gareth with evidence and passion for recreation as a core plank of community wellbeing. Gareth brings significant futures and trends analysis expertise with a focus on how emerging trends and issues will impact the ways community recreates, congregates and communicates with a focus on community wellbeing through recreation (spaces and places) and a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach. Gareth’s consulting credentials include being a founding Director of three consultancies since 1999, and in 2012 Gareth founded Ideaus Ltd, a community futures consultancy that looks at probable, possible and preferred community futures specifically within the local government sector. Gareth was a recipient of the ‘Mark Mitchell Memorial Award’ for ‘excellence and outstanding personal contribution to the wider recreation industry’. Gareth is also an Accredited Recreation Professional (ARPro). Gareth has spoken nationally and internationally on recreation related topics including spontaneous urban activity spaces for youth, the future of the recreation industry and the opportunities provided by new technology and disruptive innovations. His abiding philosophy was summed by the foreword to Al Gore’s book: ‘My parents – they gave me a future, an abiding curiosity about what it holds and a sense of our common human obligation to help shape it’