News
Here you will find news articles and updates relevant to the club industry. Please note that circulars are only visible to club representatives that are logged into the Clubs New Zealand website.
DIA Website update: COVID-19 Information for the Gambling Sector
27 August 2021
Kia ora koutou,
The Gambling Regulator is committed to keeping everyone safe and stopping the spread of COVID-19. Operators and venues will need to make sensible and reasonable decisions about how they will meet any public health requirements and their health and safety duties at the current alert level.
Level 4 Covid Update for the Class 4 Sector - August 2021 EMS, Banking, Transfers, Surrenders
19 August 2021
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EMS daily monitoring fees do not apply for the period of inactivity during the Government’s Level 4 COVID-19 response.
Fees are still owed for periods of activity (before and after the lockdown) that have not yet been debited. We will provide more information on dates and billing as it becomes available.
Venue Manger User on CONCERN to be made mandatory
18 August 2021
Clubs operating Class 4 Gaming Machines should have received an email advising you that by 1 September 2021 every venue accessing CONCERN will be required to have a venue manager user added in. After 1 September venues that do not have an authorised venue manager user added in will be denied access to their exclusion data.
Save across a range of stationery and business related products with OPD
18 August 2021
Did you know that Clubs New Zealand's partnership with Office Products Depot can help your club save across a whole heap of stationery and business related products.
Office Products Depot (OPD) is New Zealand’s largest independently owned business to business supplier of stationery and all things business related. OPD has 28 sites nationwide, located between Whangarei and Invercargill, providing product supply and support from each of their locations.
Operational Update: DIA not publishing venue level data in August 2021
17 August 2021
The below Operational Update was released by the Department of Internal Affairs on Tuesday 17 August, 2021.
Venue-level Gaming Machine Profits (GMP) will not be published with the quarterly GMP Data on 24 August 2021
Registrations for the 2021 Club Management Conference opening soon
12 August 2021
Registrations for the 2021 Club Managers conference will be opening on Friday 13th August 2021. Below you will find a quick refresher on how to register along with a draft agenda.
If you have any questions about registering for the conference or joining the Club Managers Group please get in touch with lucy@clubsnz.com
COVID19 - Are you prepared for another lockdown?
12 August 2021
With cases of Covid-19 continuing to climb in NSW, there has been a lot of talk here in New Zealand about our strategy should the delta variant make its way into the community.
Yesterday, Chris Hipkins, confirmed that the alert level settings have been reviewed and we should expect that if there was a chance of an outbreak - New Zealand would likely see a quicker move to level 4. What this means is that club committees and managers should take the time to review their processes now and put a plan in place.
Are you walking the talk when it comes to harm minimisation?
12 August 2021
We urge clubs that operate gaming machines to take time in the coming week to review your harm minimisation policy and subsequent processes to ensure that you are walking to the talk and up to date.
Get your team together and go over the responsibilities, expectations and have a refresher so that if there are concerns for a member or guest, they know exactly what steps to take and how to report it.
DIA Operational Update - 6 August 2021
6 August 2021
Class 4 Grants: Data Collection and reporting
The Department is now developing a centralised data base to capture all information on Class 4 grants distribution. We are working with KPMG on this project, and over the next week KPMG will approach your society directly to request your society’s grants data for the period 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2021. KPMG will also produce a report on the grant data which will be released by DIA (as was done for the 2019 year).
Clubs New Zealand App Competition Winner
5 August 2021
Throughout the month of July we have had a competition running to celebrate the launch of the Clubs New Zealand Mobile App Update. Every club member that downloaded the updated app and signed up went in the draw to win an iPhone 12.
The entries closed on Saturday 31st July and yesterday the draw was conducted to select a winner. We would like to congratulate Helen Miller from the Johnsonville Club. From all of us at Clubs New Zealand congratulations Helen.
Age friendly community funding
5 August 2021
The 2021 funding round for the Office for Seniors Age friendly Fund (formerly known as the Community Connects Grants Programme) opens this month.
The Age friendly Fund supports projects that promote the inclusion and contribution of older people in community life and support their community to prepare for an ageing population.
COMS - Bringing you automated systems that are reliable, customisable and simple
29 July 2021
This industry-leading product provides the ultimate all-in-one solution for monitoring and report on all gaming-related activity within a venue at any given time.
