Pedals, Planning, and Play: My DIY Field Trip Before IAKS 2025

By Richard Lindsay·Oct 2025·4 min read

What do you do when the field trip is cancelled due to low numbers? Easy - you create a field trip yourself. In this instance I got to combine two of my most favourite things: checking out facilities and all things planning, while on a bicycle. The perfect combo.

The weather was a bit dodgy, but that didn't stop some keen locals participating in a game of 3-a-side football utilising a commercially run caged turf.

I'm attending the IAKS Congress this week, with the theme being Creating high-performing facilities for an active future. This congress programme looks fantastic and there is even a sprinkling of Aotearoa's experts on the speaking list.

It will be interesting to see what innovations are occurring elsewhere in the world that I can bring back to share with the RSL team and our clients; current and future.

Feel free to check out the programme and flick me a message if you have any questions. Thanks also to those IAKS members or previous Congress attendees who gave me the feedback I needed to bite the bullet and come over here.

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