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.

Active Launceston is a community driven partnership which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of the Launceston community through physical activity. It's been a great year so far for Active Launceston with FIVE brand new programs running in the northern suburbs: Active Parks, Active Blokes, Active Dance, Active Defence and Active Technology. We've met some great new people, learned some awesome new skills and worked with new coordinators and session leaders - thanks to all. Watch this space to find out what's coming up in Spring. You can click through to the Active Launceston website to get the full rundown of the initiative.

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.