Blind Sport New Zealand

01/12/2025

2025 Christmas Party at the HUB Blind Low Vision NZ, thank you always to all our wonderful support crew, aroha Whanau ❤️ celebrating all our 🏆 & 🏀 this year, please remain safe over the festive $eason - 2026 looking very strong 4 ABSRC 💃 🕺

26/11/2025

BIG news! New Zealand Blind Lawn Bowls Association are hosting the Vision Impaired World Championships in Auckland, January 2027!
They are seeking managers, coaches, and selectors to support and lead the New Zealand Vision Impaired Bowls Team on home soil.

Could it be you or someone you know??
📩 For more info, contact Kevin: kevincsmith23@gmail.com or 0225280954 Secretary of NZBLBA.

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The New Zealand Blind Lawn Bowls Association (NZBLBA) are proud to be hosting the Vision Impaired World Championships in January 2027.

The New Zealand team is seeking the right people to help guide their team to and through this event.

If you or someone you know could be interested, please contact the Secretary of the NZBLBA Kevin Smith for further information.

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24/11/2025

Outward Bound Trust of New Zealand has scholarships available for their Youth Activate course (5–12 Jan 2026). An 8-day adventure for rangatahi aged 16–18 with a physical disability or impairment.

There are spots for the Adult Activate course too (3–10 Feb 2026), with full funding thanks to MSD support.

More info: outwardbound.co.nz/courses/youth-activate or in the post shared below.

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Outward Bound have some scholarship funding available over summer on their Youth Activate course.

Youth Activate is an 8-day course for rangatahi aged 16 – 18 years old with a physical disability or impairment and the dates are 5th January – 12th January 2026.

The scholarships are valued at $3,510 and cover the full course fee for the programme. Here is some more info on the course:
https://www.outwardbound.co.nz/courses/youth-activate

Participants are responsible for the additional costs of transport to Picton for course start and the cost of a doctor’s appointment to get our medical form completed.

They also have some final places remaining on our Activate course between 3rd February – 10th February 2026. This programme is for adults with a physical disability or impairment (aged 18+).

Outward Bound is fortunate enough to receive support from MSD for this programme, and this funding supports participants with the full course fee, travel and a doctor’s appointment to get our medical form completed (adult Activate course only).

20/11/2025

An awesome sports day at Homai BLENNZ campus, organized by the Transition Students for the students. Supported by CLM Community Sport, Special Olympics New Zealand, Hungerball and us! The students led , golf, boxfit, boccia, and athletics!

Finishing up with an epic visit by One NZ Warriors for league action! Memories and connections made for sure!

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19/11/2025

The first Blind Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup is on in India and Sri Lanka, with six international teams competing 🌍🏏. The final match on the 23rd Nov.

NZ isn’t part of this one, but it’s awesome to see blind sport hitting the global stage. So good to follow the teams and watch history being made 🙌

This article link explains the current results and sport: https://www.thecricketpanda.com/1st-blind-womens-t20-cricket-world-cup-2025/

If you are interested to know more about Cricket, get in touch with us or your local Blind Sports club.

Access live commentary here: https://www.youtube.com//streams

19/11/2025

Sharing NZ Indoor Bowls results post about the New Zealand Blind and Vision Impaired Indoor Bowls (BINZ) Nationals held recently in Whanganui! Helen (Blind Sport NZ GM) and her family went along for a visit and loved getting amongst the action! Get following New Zealand Blind and Vision Impaired Indoor Bowls Federation to see where a club is near you!

19/11/2025

Congrats Sonya, Joseph, Kerrin & Steve! Amazing bowls action at Central Cambridge Bowling Club for the national championships. 💚
Follow Bowls New Zealand and New Zealand Blind Lawn Bowls Association for more updates on the results as they come in (as they keep playing in periods of clear skies!).

19/11/2025

Awesome to see so many people loving the 2025 Northland Blind & Low Vision Tennis Championships over the weekend which was hosted by Parafed Northland and Tennis Northland, with absolute huge effort from Ellisia Cleave BLV TENNIS - NZ

Experienced Kiwi's alongside international players and some new faces to the sport too. Check out the results in the post below!

17/11/2025

Wishing all the players in Cambridge for the New Zealand Blind Lawn Bowls Association nationals this week. 🌟

Looking forward to hearing the results!
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Cracker of a day in Cambridge for the New Zealand Blind Lawn Bowls Association Nationals! Best wishes and good bowling to all the Players and Directors.

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16/11/2025

Blind Sport NZ 2025 Annual General Meeting is on
Saturday, 29 November via Zoom.

Please make sure your membership is current so you can join and vote. Voting will happen this week, before the AGM.

If you haven’t received the Zoom link or papers, contact Kyle: admin@blindsport.kiwi

To learn more about membership, check out our website or get in touch! https://www.blindsport.kiwi/

14/11/2025

If you are in Whangarei this weekend come along to the Blind Tennis Northern Open hosted by Parafed Northland and Tennis Northland. Incredible weather and sports talent on show! We are loving being here in support!

B1 mixed doubles and B2 to B4 woman's and men's singles and doubles still to come!

Thomas Neale Tennis Centre

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07/11/2025

Thomas Coysh, the blind "skiwi" and one of our Board Members, "is carving a Paralympic sports career aiming to represent New Zealand".

The below shared link from Attitude shows an awesome video snippet of the full story that will be aired this Sunday 12pm on TVNZ1 and TVNZ+.
After this date you can watch it from anywhere in the world on Attitude YouTube channel .

Love the details in their creation! Make sure to check it out!🏅
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