VALUES

Every community or organisation has values to guide its direction and guard its relationships. Below is the list of Active Basketball Association’s five core values: 

Encouragement

We are committed to building up the self esteem of all players and spectators through creating a positive environment within the ABA’s weekly events. 

The ABA exists to be a positive, encouraging influence in the local community. 

Fun

We won’t take ourselves too seriously! 

Healthy and positive humour is an essential ingredient of a healthy lifestyle. In this sense, the ability to laugh at yourself, and benefit from it, is a sign of maturity... no matter what age you are! At the ABA, we actively encourage an attitude of fun in our weekly time together as players, refs and spectators (there’s more to life than ‘sheep stations!’). 

Relevance

The ABA’s core values never change, but the methods of communicating it must.

The ABA provides the opportunity to pastorally support the players and spectators in ways that are relevant and helpful. Therefore our ABA Chaplain’s primary focus is to provide relevant pastoral support (e.g. injured or ill players, food parcels, counselling support, crisis response, etc) to anyone within the ABA community. 

Excellence

We regularly evaluate for excellence.

The ABA team (Administration, Referee Co-ordinators, ABA Board, Customer Service Team, etc) regularly evaluate for excellence to ensure we are always attempting to improve all aspects of the ABA for the benefit of the players, spectators, and referees. 

Growth

We believe it is good for the ABA to grow numerically and relationally.

The ABA believes it is a positive focus to try and grow the amount of teams so that there are even more opportunities for people to play a sport, feel encouraged, make new friends, and have fun.