The Central Energy Trust Arena is one of New Zealand’s busiest and most versatile venues.
Where community comes first
We’re proud that every year, we host more than 3,000 bookings, 95% of which are for local community organisations and more than 30 sporting codes.
We also host a range of commercial and economic events including trade shows, exhibitions, sports events, weddings, dinners, conferences, festivals, concerts and more to help us generate revenue to subsidise community events and sports.
Arena’s 3, 4 (B&M Centre), 5 and 6 are community focussed facilities, with Arena’s 1 (Oval), and 2 (Fly Palmy Arena) aimed towards revenue generating events along with some community activity.
At the end of every year, we ask community sports groups for their booking requests for our community focussed facilities for the following year. At this time we advise what dates are unavailable due to the many National Sports tournaments we host like the NZ Secondary Schools Basketball and Volleyball Nationals, North Island Junior Badminton Nationals, along with other National or Regional tournaments such as Futsal, Archery, Skating, Gymnastics. These events remain relatively unchanged year on year. This allows our community sports to schedule their leagues and seasons without interruptions.
As we look towards the future, with new development projects from our revised Masterplan, we will see support for this growing demand by opening up more availability while helping to retain our current bookings with new state-of-the-art facilities.
