Healthy Tasmania | Collaboration | Community Solutions 

If you're thinking about going along to any of the programs we are invovled with (such as Active Launceston) you can register right NOW just by click through here. Then when you turn up to a session, just tell us your name and WHAM you're in! You can also do this via our app called "I'm in by Healthy Tasmania" which is just as easy and means you will have a little bit of us with you all the time, gently reminding you to be as healthy as you can be everytime you look at your phone... oh, how nice! You can find out all the details about the app just below.

Active Launceston is back with  SIX FREE programs underway for you and your community this Spring. Click on this blurb to check out the new flyer which has the details for of all six programs; Active Kids, Active Defence, Active Parks, Active Technology, Active Dance and Active Inveresk or click here to go to the Active Launceston website for more info. The Spring programs run from August - October 2017. Active Launceston is a community driven partnership which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of the Launceston community through physical activity.

#ImReady - are you? Click through to find out the details for the #ImReady program currently underway at the Big Picture School in Launceston. #ImReady is a research project we're working on with the University of Tasmania which aims to find lasting ways to help young people form healthy habits for life.  Over eight weeks, #ImReady will offer hands-on experiences that will inspire and educate students about healthy lifestyles and connect them with opportunitites in their community. 

We have been having lots of cups of tea in the northern suburbs of Launceston, talking with the community about the big projects planned for the Launceston region. The University of Tasmania and City of Launceston asked us to engage with key member of these communities about what is working well, where gaps and issues exist and how we can ensure that initiatives like the Launceston City Deal benefit their community.

We have been lucky enough to just go On Tour with a brand new and very passionate "band" from Hobart, although I'm not sure knew they knew they were a band until we arrived!  It didn't take long to nut out and fully appreciate all the unlimited band skills they have as a team. Yes, we were thrilled to deliver this team training day to a local team in the not-for-profit sector here in Tassie. By all accounts, it rocked. 

The inaugural 2017 program has wrapped up, the survey results are in and we're now busily working away with the City of Hobart to pull together another Healthy Hobart program. We're passionate about making it easy and enjoyable for you to be more active and live a healthy lifestyle and were thrilled with the results from the first Healthy Hobart program. Healthy Hobart offered 21 FREE activities over eight weeks in Hobart's beautiful parks and reserves - everything from surf life saving and rugby league to orienteering and heritage walks. It was great to see so many people of all ages and abilities getting involved. Stay tuned for more info about round two!

We're finalists! We're thrilled to be named a top-ten finalist in the Regional Australia Institute's Lightbulb Moments competition. We've been very busy working with the RAI developing our Tasmanian podcast project and have been really buoyed by the support and commitment we've received from many different sectors so far.  We're passionate about letting Tasmanians lead the conversation about their state, (cause let's be honest, they know it best) so we're creating a way for Tasmanian voices to be heard and their stories to be shared. My word we're excited about this one - expect to hear much more about it soon.

What a great time we've had working with the team from The Huddle, a not-for-profit initiative of the North Melbourne Football Club, which supports and empowers young people through activities across sport and recreation, education and careers, digital skills and community participation. We've just wound up the first ever Huddle program in Tasmania, based in Devonport to big smiles, active kids and a round of applause. As you can imagine we're looking forward to continuing this with NMFC in Tasmania.

We've got an app - we're really 'appy with it! We've upgraded from paper registration forms to an app, providing a one off, quick and easy way for you to sign up to any of the programs we run.  We're in the process of making it even better with a new update coming soon. You can download the "I'm in by Healthy Tasmania" app from the App store or Google Play store, fill out your details and 'you're in'! Full instructions here. 

Did you know that Tasmania has the highest rate of premature deaths in Australia, primarily occuring in rural areas? That's not ok. In parternship with the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Tasmania we're helping improve health outcomes and services in rural and remote Tasmania. Click through to find out more.