Active Living
Active living is one of the key actions to increase overall wellbeing and prevent chronic disease in the Alpine Shire. Our health promotion work involves creating supportive environments in the community which make being physically active an easier choice.
Active Alpine Group
The group aims to increase and promote opportunities to be active in the Alpine Shire and in turn promote health and wellbeing, social connection and a healthy, thriving community.
The AAG was formed in 2019 after Gateway Health and Alpine Health conducted an Alpine Active Living Mapping Project looking at barriers and enablers for the community to be active and what could be done to support them to be active. We create an annual action plan keeping these recommendations in mind trying to address them where possible.
We have purpose. We have outcomes. Our achievements are a credit to this.
Current Projects
New Outdoor Fitness Equipment for Myrtleford and Porepunkah
Alpine Health as Project Lead and Gateway Health as part of AAG in partnership with the Rotary Club of Myrtleford and the Lions Club of Bright are thrilled to announce that Outdoor Fitness Equipment has been installed in Apex Park, Myrtleford and Riverside Park, Porepunkah and is ready for the community to use.Funding was received from the Victorian Government, the Commonwealth Government and the Bendigo Bank.
We have an exciting year ahead commencing with an official launch towards the end of Feb for both sites.Additionally we will also run a number of free Outdoor Exercise Classes at the sites as well as developing a Volunteer Peer Led Exercise video to support other organisations and community groups to run their own classes.
Outdoor Fitness Equipment (OFE) – Volunteer Peer Led Exercise Classes
Funded classes for Tawonga OFE have now concluded. During 2022-2023 we received funding to run a series of free exercise classes. One participant commented “It’s so much more fun exercising with people rather than on my own.”
We still want groups to be able to meet at the equipment and be social, have fun and exercise together even though funded classes have finished.
We encourage other organisations or community groups to run their own classes using peer led volunteers. To help with this we have created a ‘How to run a group fitness session video’. The video is to support classes that can be at the Outdoor Fitness Equipment located at Rotary Park, Mount Beauty or Pioneer Memorial Park, Tawonga.
If you are a community group or organisation that might like to start up a class, but would like some guidance please get in contact. We are happy to share our learnings from running our classes. You may like to read our case study that also captures many of our learnings when it comes to running Outdoor Fitness Exercise classes click here.
Coming soon a manual to also support the running of peer led volunteer exercise classes at the OFE that has similar information that is presented in the video. Keep checking back here for the manual.
Contact
We welcome anyone who is interested in improving their health and wellbeing through physical activity to contact Maureen Ryland - Health Promotion Officer on 0437 366 982 | [email protected]