Every week, around 400 children in Wellington, New Zealand, take to the field to play nursery football as part of an innovative programme using Football Packagoals.

Known as Little Dribblers Football Club, the programme inspires children aged up to seven years old to play football and develop the basic social skills required for the sport.

The programme recently purchased inflatable Junior Football Packagoals to replace the steel goals that were previously used, and they have now been rolled out in Wellington and at other Little Dribblers franchises around New Zealand.

Junior Football Packagoals supplied by Packaworld International helped children diagnosed with cancer to enjoy themselves in Camp Quality events held around New Zealand earlier this month.

Packaworld’s support also included a special offer to contribute NZD $40 per Junior Football Packagoal sold, in addition to a 20 per cent discount on a range of goals.

Children at this year’s Camp Quality enjoyed playing football using the portable junior football Packagoals. Other activities at the camps included stage performances, jet boating, water slides, theme park rides, farm visits and other sporting activities.

New Zealand signage and visual solutions company OneSource has been announced as a distributor for Packasign in New Zealand.

Produced by Packaworld, Packasign is an innovative signage solution which can double as a field surround. It protects sportspeople from injury, providing a soft surface that springs back into shape. It has featured at events such as the launch of Blind Football New Zealand.

OneSource Director Bernard Riley said Packasign provides a new, cost-effective advertising solution for events ranging from high-performance sport to school sports days and community events.

Friday's launch of New Zealand Blind Football in Auckland was the first event of its kind internationally to use inflatable advertising hoardings and goals.

These rigid inflatable products, Packasign and Packagoal, are produced by New Zealand sporting products supplier Packaworld as safe, portable alternatives to conventional goals and advertising hoardings composed from wood and steel.

Blind football is played in an enclosed arena, with a ball that emits an audible noise so blindfolded low-vision footballers can locate it. 

An inflatable blocking mannequin called ‘Packaman’ sold by Packaworld International Limited has the potential to take the pain out of training and save on damage to sportsgrounds around the world.

Packaworld CEO Peter Roberts says football teams have long used blocking dummies during training to protect players in ‘the wall’, a formation used to block free kicks, but the majority of traditional football dummies are cumbersome and use spikes to secure themselves to the ground.

This is not an option on modern artificial pitches, so the solution lies in the portable, inflatable technology used to produce Packaman, Mr Roberts says.

A schoolboy-inspired donation of Kiwi sports equipment to the remote Koroinasau District School near Sigatoka in Fiji will open up a world of sporting opportunities for local children.

The gift included balls for various sports, in addition to inflatable football goals and rugby posts from innovative Wellington-based sporting goods supplier Packaworld International.

Koroinasau District School Head Teacher Loata Finau said the equipment was received with festivity and song by the children and teachers of the school.