The Stop Out organisation started in 1919[1] with the aim of providing recreation to Te Aro Flat children in Wellington associated with the Wellington City Mission so as to prevent them becoming "stop outs" – period slang for "troubled youth".

[2] Despite the change of sporting-code focus, the club highly values the founding principles and continues to abide by them.

[1] The club won the Chatham Cup in 1956, and was runner-up in the National League in 1977.

[1] In the 2006 season, club's men's first team played in Central League for the first time in over a decade however at the 2008 season the team was relegated again to the Capital Premier League.

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