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This e-newsletter is being sent to the Health Recreation and Food & Gardening Subgroups.
The Healthy Lifestyles Expo on 16th June (10am-2pm) at The Hills District PCYC is a major local community project with Transition The Grove Inc one of the major sponsors.
The program for the day will include:
- Opening by Dale Shuttleworth MP & Jane Prentice MP
- Guest speakers on health and fitness topics
- Demonstrations of local fitness activities (~10 minutes each and for the audience to join in)
- Displays and stalls with local health & fitness stakeholders
- Nutritious cooking demos with food pack give-aways
- Health checks
Please is there any way you can help with letter-boxing flyers in the next 10 days?
We have 8000 flyers to get into local letterboxes in The Grove in the next 10 days. It terms of bite-size chunks it is 24 lots of 300 homes locally. If you could do one lot that would save about $20 from the total bill which would be a real help. If you can help please phone Anne on 3851 1016 or email administrator@transitionthegrove.org.au to get an area and a pack of brochures.
We’ve asked and asked but it is up to us!
Also would you like to help on the day?
Some of our members will have their own stalls or be speakers or doing demonstrations. There will be a Transition The Grove stall with our beautiful new banner. The top health message we will be promoting is the health benefits of belonging to local organisations and to volunteering locally and good local literacy and anti-bullying programs (all well-supported by health research evidence).
Come along and be part of talking with the community about local health fitness and all the wonderful ways that locals can get involved in belonging and volunteering in this local community. Bring along brochures from local clubs you belong to to share with the community.
Please share with your friends family and networks about the Healthy Lifestyles Expo and encourage them to come along and join in. It should be a fun day and one of those nice events that don’t cost anything!
Organising so far has involved:
- Working with QLD Health’s Community Health Promotion Team; and Metro North Medicare Local; and The Hills District PCYC; and the Metro North School Health Team on the design of the Expo
- Approaching as many as possible (hopefully all) of the locally identified health & fitness stakeholders inviting them to participate in the Expo. Expression of Interest forms and Expo flyers were emailed to as many of the stakeholders as we had email contacts for. Others were approached directly in person.
- Approaching some groups directly in person with flyers
- Negotiating at length with all the local MPs and Councillors with requests for them to support the Expo with contributions towards getting information out into the local community; and opening the Expo – in some cases with good outcomes and some disappointing
- Identifying contacts with the Aboriginal community for the required Welcome to Country
- Organising for two banners including design with all the logo approvals that had to be arranged
- Working with Peter Dutton MPs office to get 8000 coloured flyers printed to be letter-boxed to the local community
- Placing listings on the MBRC and BCC Events websites
- Sending emails with the Expo flyers attached to all the locals schools sports clubs service clubs & many groups churches libraries
- Dropping off bundles of flyers at local health services and libraries and putting up posters
The process of putting together a major local health event has involved a lot of learning and the experience is invaluable for a community organisation such as Transition The Grove Inc. It will make doing a repeat Expo in future years much easier by contrast.
The Healthy Lifestyles Expo is designed as part of a bigger “place-based” approach to health where local initiatives are developed for the community.
The next one that we are already formulating is a community-wide program to get the community to lose 10% of its excess weight. Title for the program: Tough Up 10% Together.
The big Australian Research Council Community Consultation is coming up on 2nd June and we were also part of ensuring that a good lot of names were put forward from this local community to be part of the draw to attend. It looks like being an important major health event in determining future health policy for our Metro North Region.
Warm regards
Anne Tennock
Subgroup Organiser
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