The WDSRC has been established through the Push Play Neighbourhood Project.
"We want a healthy, sustainable and co-ordinated recreation sector delivering quality opportunities that get more New Zealanders participating."
Recreation includes a range of leisure, cultural or sporting activities, undertaken in natural, heritage, rural and urban open space and outdoors.
It offers New Zealanders opportunities for improved mental and physical wellbeing, education gains, social development, economic prospects (employment, business investment, marketing opportunities), building national identity and understanding our environment.